PowerPoint:

InterActive Tools index

http://www.mdc.edu/ctd/presentations/interactive.ppt
It all started long ago

Who was the

first person to
write about
Active Learning?
 What is Active
Training/Teaching ?

Hands-On Games
It’s more Projects
than just
pouring
information Involves
into Senses
someone’s Questions
head
Small Group
Discussions &
Click anywhere for Collaborative
examples (five
times)
Projects
 PowerPoint Woes

• Too many sliding bullets

• Too much content on a slide
• Teachers sometimes duplicate lectures
• BORING
• Too much – same old thing
 PowerPoint Pros

interactive
PowerPoint can be __________

Multimedia effects such as

___________
sound and animation can be added

backgrounds and
Different ____________
templates can be used.

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Click each sentence
What is Interaction?
Learner-instructor interaction
Learner-learner interaction
Learner to content interaction

With PowerPoint you can incorporate

different types of
Interaction thereby creating
Interactive Lectures.
Multiple choice review
Interactive training techniques using
PowerPoint include all but which choice below?

Multimedia
Launching Interactive Web sites

Feedback based on user response

Collecting user input and storing information

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 Linking to an Activity
Quia – http://www.quia.com
600,000 activities
- hosted on Quia server
- requires Web connection

Hot Potatoes
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Free for Educators
Download software
Create stand-along Web pages that you can
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load to a server or run from a disk.

Multiplication review Vocabulary Review.

 Group Activity

Turn to your
Neighbor.

What techniques
would you use to
facilitate active
Learning.
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Real-Time Data and projects

Wall of Jerusalem

Stowaway adventure

WebCams

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 Multimedia

Try again! Multimedia can be

effectively used to enhance
InterActive Training and
Teaching
Feedback based on user’s
response.

Think about it! You are seeing

an example of Interactive
training that responses to user
feedback right here.
Launching Programs and
Web Sites

Sorry - This is a great way to

add interactivity that goes way
beyond what PowerPoint can do
alone.
Collecting data and user
input

Right Answer – for this you

need more than a Presentation
package. You need an
authoring tool such as
Click2Learn’s Toolbook or
Macromedia’s Authorware.
Quia
Hot Potatoes
 Demo
• Action Buttons on Master
• Click to show
• Hyperlinks (menus – other slides, URL)
• Animation – path…
 Path Animation: Let’s line the
animals according to their habitats

• Farm

• Ocean

• Pond

• Forest
 The cat and the mouse play.

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