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1 Background Information: Microsoft PowerPoint is the software presentation program developed by Microsoft that has been around since It was originally released for Macintosh Computers, but has undergone significant changes over the years. Unfortunately, phrases like Death by PowerPoint, PowerPoint-Poisoning, and PowerPoint Hell have all been used to describe the overload of information presented, boredom from speakers who read from their slides, and overall poor use of Microsoft PowerPoint. Objective: It is my goal to help you learn to make interactive PowerPoint Presentations that stand-alone so that students can use them as tools to learn whether or not you are present. They can then be uploaded onto Infinity and accessed via the web! Examples of Interactive PowerPoints: Mary Shattuck, an English teacher at Tomah Middle School has some excellent PowerPoints that demonstrate how to get kids actively involved while they learn! Click on the below links to hyperlink to Mary s website and the following presentations: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective Power Point Verb, Adverb Power Point Prep, Conj, Inter Power Point I will also show you several examples of interactive slides/presentations during the training that will cover ideas from math, science, and social studies. PowerPoint versus Mimio: Unlike Mimio, objects come into a PowerPoint slide all at the same level. If you want them to come to the front or move to the back you have to physically move them. Objects in PowerPoint are not moveable, so students are not able to move them around. However, you can animate objects and make them move. Objects can be clicked on in any order to provide student feedback (self-check) in Mimio; hyperlink features allow you to click on objects in any order in PowerPoint as well. However, you can also use animation features in PowerPoint to provide feedback for students. If you decide to use this option, you need to be very specific with your directions, as animation will only proceed in a particular order.

2 Suggestions for Building Presentation: 1. Provide the student with their target objective(s), so they know the purpose of the presentation and the knowledge/skills they should be developing. 2. Presenting information is essential. You want to keep doing this! Keep it brief and short. 3. Provide immediate access for student interaction with the information. 4. Provide multiple opportunities for students to interact with the information. 5. Hyperlink out to or embed additional resources (video, audio, interactive websites, etc.) to support visual/auditory learners. Basic Techniques: Adding Washout Color Photos to Background of Slides Find a picture you want to add (either via clipart, the internet, or file folder) and insert it into your presentation. You can also copy and paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) from the internet or use your snipping tool! 1 2 Insert the photo and resize it to fill your page. Right click on it and Send to Back. While the image is still selected, click on the Format tab on the menu bar and select color. 3

3 The following pop-up screen will appear. Select the effect you want to use by clicking on it. You can further alter its appearance by clicking on Corrections. This is the Washout effect. Your slide will now look like this. It is ready for you to edit and add your information. Adding Hyperlink Feedback Boxess: Add the title and text as usual.

4 Now you are ready to add your Hyperlink boxes w/text, but we will not yet add the hyperlink feature. Click Insert Shapes. Select the shape you want to use. Select its color and size it to your desired proportions. Click on it to begin typing text. 1 2 I then click on that shape and use Ctrl C on my keyboard and Ctrl V to copy and paste it as many times as I need it on my slide. Position each of the objects where they need to go on the slide and repeat the process for the other objects (i.e. Allied and Neutral). I also added any other hyperlink objects on the page at this time as well.

5 To prepare to hyperlink to the feedback slides that tell students whether or not their answers are correct or incorrect, you must first create those slides. Create them like you typically would by adding a new slide. Add the graphics and text you want students to see. For this presentation, I needed to create 4: 3 for correct responses and 1 for incorrect responses. You ll notice that I also added a Back button to each slide in order to hyperlink back to the original slide. To add the hyperlinks to each box, simply right click on the object you want to hyperlink. Click on Hyperlink. 1 Right Click 2 Make sure you have Place in this Document selected, so that all of the slides in the presentation appear in the preview pane. Select the slide that it needs to hyperlink to and click OK Simply add all of the necessary hyperlinks to navigate the student through the activity. Remember to hyperlink the Back Buttons on the feedback slides as well.

6 You can also hyperlink to other PowerPoint slide presentations (i.e. you could take students back to a lecture presentation), documents (PDF s, word documents, etc.) within your library (I suggest storing them all in the same folder), or out to web sites. Make sure you have Existing File or Web Page selected after you have clicked on Hyperlink and if you ve stored them within the same folder, they should appear in your Current Folder preview pane. If you want students to access a web address, you can type the address in the address window at the bottom of the Insert Hyperlink pop up menu screen.

7 Adding Color Changing Feedback Boxes: Create your slide (in a similar manner) like we did before. This time, you ll notice that I left my Axis, Allied, and Neutral boxes white instead of blue. When you are ready to add the color changes, you simply click on the shape you want to animate. Select Animations from your menu tabs and then arrow down until you see the Object Color Star You can then select the color you want the object to change to upon animation. I selected green to indicate correct responses and red to indicate incorrect responses. Because we don t know which box the student is going to click on, and because we re animating them, it will be necessary to animate all three at once. Click on one of the incorrect responses, hold down the shift key on your keyboard, click on the other incorrect response and animate them using the process above. This time you ll select the second color (red).

8 In order to control the order of your animations, the effects of your animations, and so forth, click on the Animation Pane button to display your options. Click on the down arrow to display your animation options. Select Start With Previous. Complete this process for the remainder of the answers on the slide. I used a combination of these two techniques to create the 3 rd Social Studies Example. Other Techniques to Enhance PowerPoint Presentations: Hyperlink to Interactive Websites Hyperlink to Videos Embed Videos Add Voice Overs Make Objects Grow, Shrink, Move As always, PLEASE contact me to come in and help you learn how to use any of these features or to brainstorm how we can get PowerPoint to do what you d like it to!!! me at renees@tomah.k12.wi.us or call extension 5407