Interactive PowerPoint
Making Your Presentations Interactive:
How to add interactivity with buttons for navigation:
- Example - Civil War
- From the slide show Menu choose Action Buttons
- Select the appropriate button appearance
- Choose the action that you would like the button to do
- Place and size the button on the slide
- Double-Click the button to change it's color
- Right-Click on the button the add text or change the action
How to add interactivity through hypertext for menus and links:
- Example - Phonics
- Highlight the text
- Right-CLick the selected text and choose Action Settings
- Select an action for the text: (such as)
- Link to another slide
- Link to another PowerPoint
- Opan a file
- Open a specific web page (URL)
- Play a sound or video
Downloadable Files and Examples of Completed Template Activities:
- http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/index.html
- http://soe.cahs.colostate.edu/faculty/johnson/games/
- http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/index.html
- http://www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us/edlinkspowerpoint.htm
- http://www.saskschools.ca/~qvss/technology/powerpoint_module2.htm#Interactive%20Activities
- http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/arcadia.k12.mo.us/petsel/page21/pptconnect.html
- http://www.microsoft.com/education/interactivestory.aspx
Jeopardy:
- Jeopardy Resources
- Fun Jeopardy
- Social Studies Jeopardy
- http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm
JCPS CyberExchange:
Free Downloadable Background Templates:
- BrainyBetty.com
- OAVS Visual Concepts
- Presenters University
- SoniaColeman.com
- WebsiteEstates.com
- Art-TLS.com
- Free Animated Backgrounds
Animated GIF's: