Discovering It Come Alive

in PowerPoint :
Animations, Cartoons, and Video Clips

Scott A. Sinex
Prince George’s Community College

Presented at Powering Up with Technology

held at Northern High School
on 16 November 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?
The power at your fingertips…

Custom animation Animated gif’s

 entrance Cartooning
 emphasis N Movies and sound
 exiting E Hyperlinks
 motion paths W  to the Internet
 to local files on your
Images or pictures computer
 with more processing
tools

Help prevent PowerPoint induced sleep!

 Can you hit the bull's-eye?
Three shooters
with three
arrows each to
shoot.

How do they Both Precise Neither

compare? accurate but not accurate nor
and precise accurate precise

Can you define accuracy and precision?

All done using animation in PowerPoint!
Click on object, then right click and select custom animation.
Turbidity and Light Penetration
What is the biological importance
of light penetration to submerged
aquatic vegetation (SAV)?

As turbidity increases, light penetration decreases.

SAV
 What does the time of flight graph for
throwing the ball straight up look like?

height 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
Use of entrance
and exit animation.
leg

foot
 Always active in slide show!

Animated gif files

Are you Results that are accurate and
looking
here!
precise are the best.
To aid in a summary statement

What is the direction of the

Higher order
rotation of Hurricane
thinking Floyd?
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.

 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.
 Would the shark be happy?

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 on

opening and close by pressing “Esc” key on your computer, which
places you back into the original presentation file.)
Images from http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/data/interp1.htm
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!

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THAT’S ALL FOLKS
Thanks for coming!!!!

… and sometimes it’s just

to get your attention!
For more animated PowerPoint 2002 stuff in
chemistry 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 presentations
 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)
 My thanks to Barb Gage and Bob Osinski
for being great collaborators.

Support from the BLT Project and

especially from Stan Bennett of UMCP.

NOAA