PowerPoint Pointers

Today we learned how to do different things with Power Point and custom animation. Last week's lesson focused on presenting information. This week we are focusing on reviewing information. Pierce showed us how to use animation to show parts of slide at a time, fade out wrong answers on a quiz, and draw custom animation motion paths.

The next day we learned something very nifty. We learned how to make "buttons" of sorts for our powerpoint. We selected the slide on which we drew arrows to label things and we hit ctrl D, which makes a duplicate of that slide. We clicked on the duplicate slide and removed the animation by clicking on the animation tab and clicking remove.

Our goal was to make the answers come up when we click the button we made (insert shapes, right click edit text) and hide the answers by clicking the other button we made, labeled Hide Answers. To do this, we had to first group the words together so they could share the same animation. To do this, we hit shift & clicked each of the answers. Next, we went to the Home tab, clicked Arange, and selected Group. Next, we clicked custom animation. We picked the effect we wanted for our entrance and then double clicked the name of the effect. From there we selected the tab Timing, and where it says Triggers we selected the name of the button we had made. We repeated this step for the exit of the answers, using the button Hide Answers.

This lesson was super cool. I had no idea you could do this. It would be great for a review game.





This follows the NETS Standards:
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
PowerPoint is definitely a digital tool and with our knew found knowledge of cool ways to teach with it, we can use it to teach.
d. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.
This assignment fits this standard perfectly, since we have just learned how to use PowerPoint as a means of quizzes students and finding out how much they know.