Transcript Dynamic PowerPoint: A Method for Increased Class Participation

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
• 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?
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?
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
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.
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
Higher order
rotation of Hurricane
Floyd?
thinking
Hurricanes do not occur in
the interior US. WHY?
http://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gif
To pose a question
Go to insert and then select picture from file.
How does global temperature vary?
equator
cold
hot
pdf handout
http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/index.html
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.
height
What does the time of flight graph for
throwing the ball straight up look like?
Is this your prediction?
time
The ball has a straight line motion path with auto-reverse.
The anatomy of stick man
shoulder
head
hand – three digits
hip
torso
Is this too busy?
leg
foot
The anatomy of stick man
shoulder
head
hand – three digits
hip
torso
leg
foot
Use of entrance
and exit animation.
Using hyperlinks
• A good site for technology-based lessons
and click on link
• The author’s environmental science webpage
To place in slide, highlight text, right
click while text is highlighted, and
select hyperlink. Type in URL or file
location on your computer.
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.)
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!
The anatomy of stick man
The anatomy of stick man
The anatomy of stick man
The anatomy of stick man
THAT’S ALL FOLKS
Thanks for coming!!!!
… and sometimes it’s just
to get your attention!
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
More Internet Resources
• Good source of PowerPoint use in instruction at all levelshttp://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/powerpoint
• Free PowerPoint XP viewer from Microsofthttp://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
• Quick tour by Microsofthttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/
default.asp
• Two detailed handoutshttp://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/IntroPPointXP.pdf (introduction)
http://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/InterPrpointxp.pdf (intermediate)
• A collection of K-12 examples by teachershttp://www.nebo.edu/nebo/ppt
(A great sound clip library)