Presentations

This page is for interesting ways to use either Microsoft PowerPoint of OpenOffice Presenter in the classroom. Also include related accessories for the programs that allow more functionality.


 * ~ Flash Spring ||~  ||
 * You have your PowerPoint presentation that you use for class - or a Power Point game - that you want to post on your School Center website so the kids can get the notes or play the study game from home. There can be two problems, the first being that the students may not have Power Point installed on their computer. Why is this signifigant? you may ask. Well, the only way for Power Point presentation to be seen from the Internet requires that the person have Power Point installed on their home computer, so unless you are absolutely certain that every student has Power Point at home, then it will be trouble. The second problem lies more with creating games with Power Point. The more slides and features you put into a presentation the larger the finished file size becomes, and can quickly exceed the size limit (10 megabytes) for School Center.

FlashSpring (iSpring) is a program that takes your Power Point and converts it to a flash file. This flash file is small and the Internet easily plays flash files all the time - YouTube videos and the like. One benefit to flash files is that they are small and still retain their powerful interaction. All you need to see these files is a web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox). Flash Spring when installed on your computer looks like another toolbar inside of Power Point. If you click here you can [|download a free version of this program] and clicking here will [|download a user's manual] that I wrote for it. ||


 * ~ Power Point Games ||
 * Want to create interactive Power Point games for your kids but you don't know how, or you don't want to go through a LONG and detailed task of creating links between a large number of slides. Well, I've created a basic introduction manual to the concept behind creating your own Power Point and you can [|download it here]. I've also taken some time and compiled a collection of pre-made templates. Before you jump right in and present these in class, I suggest that you take time and become familiar with the templates, and obviously before actually presenting it, test it out to make sure it all works. [|Template Package 1] [|Template Package 2] [|Template Package 3] ||