Saturday, 03 October 2015 PowerPoint Tips 4 Click your level above smart smarter smartest Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. Interactivity – Can we engage learners by building in interactivity? What is interactivity? – my definition would be anything that learners have to click on to make a choice – or decision. An easy example of this is the Beginner – Improver – Power User choice in this presentation.

Saturday, 03 October 2015 PowerPoint Tips 4 Using Action Buttons. These link the user to other places in the resource e.g. forward, back, last slide viewed, beginning, end, etc. The home button below is one. Click on more to see an example of how this can be used for T&L using ICTAC. Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. smart Auto Shapes - Action Buttons These are objects that when clicked on take the user to another place in the presentation. When these are drawn into your presentation they have hyperlinks already built in. A dialogue box will pop up to tell you what the action is. Hopefully most of these are self explanatory but if not you can see what the action is when you draw the shape on the slide. Normally when you click anywhere the slide moves on one. To disable this you need to set up the slide show differently: Slide Show menu / Set up Show… Tick: Viewed in a kiosk full screen Check out the home button – bottom left of each slide in this presentation MORE

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Saturday, 03 October 2015 PowerPoint Tips 4 smarter AIM: Learn how to use Hyperlinks to introduce interactivity. Anything you click on that takes you somewhere else is probably a hyperlink. Hyperlinks can be easily applied to most objects in ppt. images, text, auto shapes Hyperlinks can take you to other slides in the same resource or to other presentations. They can take you to places on the www. Or can open other files (e.g. Word, video, audio, etc.) Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. The hyperlink on this more button will take you to the starter example that uses a link to an audio file (you can see this in assets folder) and links to other slides. When you are bored with it press escape to return to this slide MORE To turn anything to a hyperlink: Select it Ctrl+K or Right Click / Hyperlink Choose from place in document or other file, etc. Navigate to the file you want to open (if relevant) or type in url for a web address link. You can make it appear that hyperlinking makes an object appear by using duplicate slides Click here Click here to see the next slide It should look like an image of the hyperlink window pops up over this text box.

Saturday, 03 October 2015 PowerPoint Tips 4 smarter Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. The hyperlink on this more button will take you to the starter example that uses a link to an audio file (you can see this in assets folder) and links to other slides. When you are bored with it press escape to return to this slide. To turn anything to a hyperlink: Select it Ctrl+K or Right Click / Hyperlink Choose from place in document or other file, etc. Navigate to the file you want to open (if relevant) or type in url for a web address link. You can make it appear that hyperlinking makes an object appear by using duplicate slides Click here Click here to see the next slide It should look like an image of the hyperlink window pops up over this text box. MORE AIM: Learn how to use Hyperlinks to introduce interactivity. Anything you click on that takes you somewhere else is probably a hyperlink. Hyperlinks can be easily applied to most objects in ppt. images, text, auto shapes Hyperlinks can take you to other slides in the same resource or to other presentations. They can take you to places on the www. Or can open other files (e.g. Word, video, audio, etc.)

Saturday, 03 October 2015 PowerPoint Tips 4 smartest Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. AIM: Understand how Animation is the other aspect of interactivity in PowerPoint. If you like logical puzzles then you can create some pretty clever stuff. On a simple level use it to reveal information on screen for the user. Using triggers takes animation to a whole new level (a trigger can be anything you click on to start an animation) Sequences of animations can get complex. Try to outwit PowerPoint! To get in to it: right click / custom animation. Our PowerPoint resources make use of these tricks to make them interactive. (a series of starters including various reveals and some true / false quizes). Uses entrance animation for reveals and triggers to entrance the smileys on the true/false quiz. (Smileys are in auto shapes) Find the Notes – a simple “game” for less able students. Using a mixture of entrance and exit animations but involving use of how objects are ordered. The letters are there all of the time – they aren’t animated – the keys are behind and in front. Clicking on one makes it fade out quickly but the effect is that the letter appears.