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Dynamic PowerPoint: A Visualization Tool for Engaging Learners

Dynamic PowerPoint: A Visualization Tool for Engaging Learners. Scott A. Sinex Prince George’s Community College. A workshop for the Building Learning with Technology Summer Design Institute held at the University of Maryland College Park on 8-12 July 2002. . PowerPoint Induced Sleep.

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Dynamic PowerPoint: A Visualization Tool for Engaging Learners

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  1. Dynamic PowerPoint: A Visualization Tool forEngaging Learners Scott A. Sinex Prince George’s Community College A workshop for the Building Learning with Technology Summer Design Institute held at the University of Maryland College Park on 8-12 July 2002.

  2. 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?

  3. Active Learning • 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?

  4. How to keep your class engaged • Pose questions – stimulates discussion • Use animations and/or movies • PowerPoint XP has considerable animation capabilities • Animated gif files (PowerPoint 2000 or XP) • Video clips • Build complicated concepts in pieces

  5. Can you hit the bull's-eye? Three shooters with three arrows each to shoot. How do they compare? Both accurate and precise Precise but not accurate Neither accurate nor precise Can you define accuracy and precision? All done using animation in PowerPoint! Click on object, then right click and select custom animation.

  6. Always active in slide show! Animated gif files Are you looking here! Results that are accurate and precise are the best. To aid in a summary statement What is the direction of the rotation of Hurricane Floyd? Higher order thinking Hurricanes do not occur in the interior US. WHY? To pose a question http://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gif Go to insert and then select picture from file.

  7. How does global temperature vary? equator cold hot pdf handout http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/index.html

  8. Are we in Kansas anymore? Place cursor on image and click to start. http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.html Tornado film footage with narration Go to insert and then select movies.

  9. What does the time of flight graph for throwing the ball straight up look like? height Is this your prediction? time The ball has a straight line motion path with auto-reverse.

  10. The anatomy of stick man shoulder head hand – three digits hip torso Is this too busy? leg foot

  11. The anatomy of stick man shoulder head hand – three digits hip torso Use of entrance and exit animation. leg foot

  12. Using hyperlinks • A good site for technology-based lessons • The author’s environmental science webpage and click on link To place in slide, highlight text, right click while text is highlighted, and select hyperlink. Type in URL or file location on your computer.

  13. What is the shark doing? Slide loop as separate file (11 slides) Play (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.)

  14. 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!

  15. The anatomy of stick man

  16. The anatomy of stick man

  17. The anatomy of stick man

  18. The anatomy of stick man THAT’S ALL FOLKS Thanks for coming!!!! … and sometimes it’s just to get your attention!

  19. For more animated PowerPoint stuff in chemistry and environmental science: http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/chm103.html http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htm Go down page to PowerPoint topics For a guide to using PowerPoint 2002: http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/psc/DPP_guide.pdf This presentation is available http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex Click on presentations

  20. 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)

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