Discover Alive

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Discovering It Come Alivein PowerPoint :

Scott A. Sinex

Prince Georges Community College

Presented at Powering Up with Technologyheld at Northern High School

on 16 November 2002.

Animations, Cartoons, and Video Clips


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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 enhancethe visualization of concepts?

Can we get students engaged in the class?


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Do you want your students toparticipate in class? (less lecture, morediscussion)

Do they need to predict what is going tobe an outcome?

Do you poll your students on issues or ananswer?

Active Learning


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The power at your fingertips

Custom animationentranceemphasisexitingmotion paths

Images or pictures

with more processingtools

Animated gifs

Cartooning

Movies and sound

Hyperlinksto the Internet

to local files on yourcomputer

Help prevent PowerPoint induced sleep!

NEW


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Three shooterswith threearrows each toshoot.

Can you hit the bull's-eye?

Bothaccurateand precise

Precisebut notaccurate

Neitheraccurate norprecise

All done using animation in PowerPoint!

Click on object, then right click and select custom animation.

How do theycompare?

Can you define accuracy and precision?


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Turbidity and Light Penetration

What is the biological importanceof light penetration to submergedaquatic vegetation (SAV)?

As turbidity increases, light penetration decreases.

SAV


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time

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ht

What does the time of flight graph forthrowing the ball straight up look like?

Is this your prediction?

The ball has a straight line motion path with auto-reverse.


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The anatomy of stick man

head

foot

leg

hand three digits

torsohip

shoulder

Use of entranceand exit animation.


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Animated gif files

Go to insert and then select picture from file.

Results that are accurate andprecise are the best.

To aid in a summary statement

Always active in slide show!

Are youlookinghere!

What is the direction of therotation of Hurricane Floyd?

To pose a question

Hurricanes do not occur inthe interior US. WHY?

Higher orderthinking

http://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gif
http://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gifhttp://eliassen.atmos.colostate.edu/images/movies/floyd/ml-00006.gif


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Are we in Kansas anymore?

Tornado film footage with narration

Go to insert and then select movies.

Place cursor

on imageand click tostart.

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.html
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.htmlhttp://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.htmlhttp://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/videos/videos.html


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Using hyperlinks

A good site forsite for technology-based lessonstechnology-based lessons

The authors environmental science webpageauthors environmental science webpage

To place in slide, highlight text, rightclick while text is highlighted, andselect hyperlink. Type in URL or filelocation on your computer.

and click on link
http://education.umd.edu/blthttp://education.umd.edu/blthttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htmhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htmhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htmhttp://education.umd.edu/blt


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Slide loop as separate file(12 slides of monthly maps)

Play- DO in Bay waters(Links to another PowerPoint file that is set up to start loop onopening and close by pressing Esc key on your computer, whichplaces you back into the original presentation file.)

Would the shark be happy?

Images from http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/data/interp1.htm
http://do_1998_monthly.ppt/http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/data/interp1.htmhttp://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/data/interp1.htmhttp://do_1998_monthly.ppt/


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A little

cartooning!A sequence of framesor slides - a flip book

using technology!

Draw, duplicate slide under Insert, and modify!


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The anatomy of stick manTHATS ALL FOLKSThanks for coming!!!!

and sometimes its justto get your attention!


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For more animated PowerPoint 2002 stuff inchemistry and environmental science:

CHM 101 CHM 102 CHM 103

Environmental Science

Go down page to PowerPoint topics

For a guide to using PowerPoint 2002:

http://academic.pgcc.edu/psc/DPP_guide.pdf

This presentation is available

http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex

Click on resentations
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm101.htmlhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm102.htmlhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm103.htmlhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htmhttp://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/DPP_guide.pdfhttp://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/DPP_guide.pdfhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinexhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinexhttp://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/DPP_guide.pdfhttp://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~ssinex/DPP_guide.pdfhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ESI/ESI.htmhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm103.htmlhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm102.htmlhttp://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/chm101.html


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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)
http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/powerpointhttp://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/IntroPPointXP.pdfhttp://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/InterPrpointxp.pdfhttp://www.nebo.edu/nebo/ppthttp://www.nebo.edu/nebo/ppthttp://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/InterPrpointxp.pdfhttp://www.eiu.edu/~booth/pub/IntroPPointXP.pdfhttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/evaluation/tour/default.asphttp://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asphttp://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/powerpoint


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NOAA

My thanks to Barb Gage and Bob Osinskifor being great collaborators.

Support from the BLT Project andespecially from Stan Bennett of UMCP.
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/line0730.htmhttp://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/line0730.htmhttp://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/line0730.htm

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