Using effects in your Powerpoint

Ireland, a small island country in Europe

Where is Ireland?

How to create a popup First place the image, movie, text box, annimation, or autoshape on your slide where you want it to popout. The Potato Famine only affected the poor.

How to create a popup Second place the object that will trigger the popup to appear when clicked. What, in the name of Heaven, is to become of us? What are we to do? The country is gone! The Times, May 23, 1849

Click on the pop-out and choose custom animation on the right panel. Click add effect- entrance- faded zoom Then click add effect- exit –faded zoom Double click the first effect, click timing, then click trigger and choose the object on the slide Move the trigger animation before the action specified.

The potato was the main food source to the Irish peasants during the mid 1800’s What, in the name of Heaven, is to become of us? What are we to do? The country is gone! The Times, May 23, 1849

Perhaps you want a quiz format – Which hurricane caused the most damage? The deadliest U.S. hurricane on record was a Category Four storm that hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, Some 8,000 people lost their lives when the island was destroyed by 15-foot (5-meter) waves and 130-mile-an-hour (210-kilometer- an-hour) winds. Although Katrina was not the deadliest Hurricane, it was the most expensive in damages, $81 billion. Galveston 1900 Hurricane Katrina

Perhaps you want to add audio First record the audio file, you can do it in movie maker now that you know how to use it. Insert your picture or trigger. (Best to save pictures and insert them- Copying and pasting often inserts hyperlinks to the original site)

How many died? “nobody was keeping count of the actual number of people involved. Famine victims often died unseen in mud huts or along the roadside only to be quickly buried in shallow unmarked graves or in mass graves.” Estimates put the figure at1,500,000 (“After the Famine”)