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Discovering It Come Alivein PowerPoint :
Scott A. SinexPrince George’s Community
CollegePresented at Powering Up with
Technology held at Northern High Schoolon 16 November 2002.
Animations, Cartoons, and Video Clips
PowerPoint Induced Sleep
• Too much on a slide (overloaded) especially text
• Fact after fact after fact - boring• And then read it to your students and
say goodnight
Can we make it dynamic and enhance the visualization of concepts?
Can we get students engaged in the class?
Do you want your students to participate in class? (less lecture, more discussion)
Do they need to predict what is going to be an outcome?
Do you poll your students on issues or an answer?
Active Learning
The power at your fingertips…
Custom animationentranceemphasis exiting motion paths
Images or pictureswith more processing
tools
Animated gif’sCartooningMovies and soundHyperlinksto the Internetto local files on your
computer
Help prevent PowerPoint induced sleep!
NEW
Three shooters with three arrows each to shoot.
Can you hit the bull's-eye?
Both accurate and precise
Precise but not accurate
Neither accurate nor precise
All done using animation in PowerPoint!
Click on object, then right click and select custom animation.
How do they compare?
Can you define accuracy and precision?
Turbidity and Light Penetration
What is the biological importance of light penetration to submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV)?
As turbidity increases, light penetration decreases.
SAV
time
heig
ht
What does the time of flight graph for throwing the ball straight up look like?
Is this your prediction?
The ball has a straight line motion path with auto-reverse.
The anatomy of stick man
head
foot
leg
hand – three digits
torsohip
shoulder
Use of entrance and exit animation.
Animated gif files
Go to insert and then select picture from file.
Results that are accurate and precise are the best.
To aid in a summary statement
Always active in slide show!
Are you looking here!
What is the direction of the rotation of Hurricane Floyd?
To pose a question
Hurricanes do not occur in the interior US. WHY?
Higher order thinking
http://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gif
http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/index.html
cold hot
How does global temperature vary?
equator
pdf handout
Are we in Kansas anymore?
Tornado film footage with narration
Go to insert and then select movies.
Place cursor on image and click to start.
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.html
Using hyperlinks
• A good site for technology-based lessonssite for technology-based lessons
• The author’s environmental science author’s environmental science webpagewebpage
To place in slide, highlight text, right click while text is highlighted, and select hyperlink. Type in URL or file location on your computer.
and click on link
Slide loop as separate file(12 slides of monthly
maps)
Play- DO in Bay waters(Links to another PowerPoint file that is set up to start loop on opening and close by pressing “Esc” key on your computer, which places you back into the original presentation file.)
Would the shark be happy?
Images from http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/data/interp1.htm
The anatomy of stick man
A little cartooning!
A sequence of frames or slides - a flip book
using technology!
Draw, duplicate slide under Insert, and modify!
The anatomy of stick manTHAT’S ALL FOLKS
Thanks for coming!!!!
… and sometimes it’s just to get your attention!
For more animated PowerPoint 2002 stuff in chemistry and environmental science:
CHM 101 CHM 102 CHM 103 Environmental Science
Go down page to PowerPoint topics
For a guide to using PowerPoint 2002:http://academic.pgcc.edu/psc/DPP_guide.pdf
This presentation is available http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex
Click on presentations
More Internet Resources• Good source of PowerPoint use in instruction at all levels-
http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/powerpoint
• Free PowerPoint XP viewer from Microsoft- http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
• Quick tour by Microsoft- http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/ default.asp
• Two detailed handouts-http://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/IntroPPointXP.pdf (introduction)http://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/InterPrpointxp.pdf (intermediate)
• A collection of K-12 examples by teachers- http://www.nebo.edu/nebo/ppt (A great sound clip library)