PowerPoint gets Interactive

What do you know about PowerPoint?

Interactivity in PowerPoint

IndexThis PowerPoint Slide has three main sections

Section 1 – Interactive Tips

Section 2 – Whiz Quiz

Section 3 - Cheat Sheet

Testing your presentation

Testing your interactive multimedia presentation is one of the most important steps. Here are a few rules to help you avoid making mistakes

Only make one draft copy. Call it the live version

Ask a friend to review the live version

Make the changes only to the live version

Packaging your presentation PowerPoint can assist you to package your

presentation by putting all the required files into one file, so you to you can copy the file to a CD

Open the presentation that you want to package

On the Microsoft Office Button, point to the arrow next to Publish, and then click Package for CD.

In the Package for CD dialog box, in the Name the CD box, type a name for the CD or the folder that you want to copy your presentation to.

Select Copy to CD and click OK

Your presentation should start burning onto a blank CD

PowerPoint Whiz Quiz - 3What do you know about Interactive Multimedia PowerPoint?

Click the star next to the correct answer

Which medium specialises in interactivity? Cinema Radio Internet Television

Which medium specialises in interactivity?

Internet

What PowerPoint feature allows for a non-linear presentation?

Action buttons Transitions Clip Art Embedded objects

What PowerPoint feature allows for a non-linear presentation?

Action buttons

Which electronic device offers only linear content? Nintendo WII Apple iPod MultiChoice Personal Video Recorder Sony Car Radio

Which electronic device offers only linear content?

Sony Car Radio

How could you stop people from clicking through a presentation?

Include Action Buttons in the presentation

Create Hyperlinks Turn off the “Advance on mouse click

” All of the above

How could you stop people from clicking through a presentation?

All of the above

What does it mean to have non-linear access to information?

To move step by step through a presentation

To be able to turn electronic pages To be able to access the internet To navigate directly to information

that the user would like to see

What does it mean to have non-linear access to information?

To navigate directly to information that the user would like to see

What is an interface? The on screen visualisation of

information available A charming animated character

responsible for introducing you to the programme

The file structure within the object The collection of multimedia

resources

What is an interface? The on screen visualisation of

information available

In an interactive world, what is feedback for? Feedback gives the user an idea

whether his/her objective has been achieved

Feedback tells the musician that his microphone is too close to a speaker

Feedback is required at the end of a course so that the lecturer can improve the content

Feedback redistributes excess food to hungry people

In an interactive world, what is feedback for? Feedback gives the user an idea

whether his/her objective has been achieved

What characteristic is NOT typical in an interactive resource?

User control Immediate Response Adaptability No choices

What characteristic is NOT typical in an interactive resource?

No choices

In an interactive world, what does a Kiosk provide? A kiosk provides unattended access

to electronic information A kiosk provides people with coffee

and tea A kiosk is usually used as a news

stand None of the above

In an interactive world, what does a Kiosk provide? A kiosk provides unattended access

to electronic information

The endWell done PowerPoint whiz – you completed the quiz

Creating non linear PowerPoint presentations is fun – but it also challenging, and it can take a long tome to create an interface and materials. The best way to master non linear media is to practice, get feedback and correct your mistakes .

Don’t try to be an interactive Power Point master in a day. Simply use the following “CHEATS” to produce a great PowerPoint presentation.

Cheat Sheet

• Create a hyperlink • Create an action button• Insert a clickable thumbnail image• Turn off “Advance on mouse click”• Create a navigation bar• Use sound or mouseclicks

to generate feedback

Cheat SheetNow see if you can complete the cheat sheet

Cheat Sheet Index

Ways to create interactivity - HYPERLINKS

Create a Hyperlink to

You can create hyperlinks (or connections) from one slide to another slide in the same

presentation or a Web page to a file

Create a Hyperlink to

a slide in the same presentation

a page or file on the Web

a new file

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Ways to create interactivity - HYPERLINKS

A slide in the same presentation

1. Select the text that you want to use as a hyperlink.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.

3. Click “Place in This Document”4. Click the slide that you want to use as the

hyperlink destination. 5. Then click OK.

If you click on the hyperlinks alongside, you’ll see an example of hyperlink s to another slide in this presentation.

Create a Hyperlink to

> a slide in the same presentation

a page or file on the Web

a new file

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Ways to create interactivity - HYPERLINKS

A page or file on the Web

1. Select the text that you want to use as a hyperlink.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.

3. Click Existing File or Web Page 4. Enter the URL of the web site you’d like to

link to. 5. Then click OK.

If you click on the GOOGLE hyperlink, you’ll be taken to the Google Web site.

Create a Hyperlink to

a slide in the same presentation

> a page or file on the Web

a new file

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Ways to create interactivity - HYPERLINKS

A new file

1. Select the text that you want to use as a hyperlink.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.

3. Click Create New Document. 4. In the Name of new document box, type

the name of the file that you want to create and link to.

5. Under When to edit, click whether you want to change the file now or later.

Create a Hyperlink to

a slide in the same presentation

a page or file on the Web

> a new file

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Ways to create interactivity – ACTION BUTTONS

Create an Action Button

1. Click on the Insert tab, select Shapes and choose an action button at the bottom of the section

2. Drag the crosshair cursor diagonally on the slide and draw the action button

3. Use the action setting dialogue box to specify where you would like the action button should take the user once clicked.

4. Click OK once you have completed the box

Create an action button

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Ways to create interactivity THUMBNAILS

Insert a clickable thumbnail image

Click on the Insert tab, select picture and choose the picture you would like to preview in the show

Resize and position the picture using the handles

Use the action setting dialogue box to specify where you would like the action button should take the user once clicked.

Click OK once you have completed the dialogue box

Insert a clickable thumbnail image

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Ways to create interactivity – NO MOUSE CLICK

Turn off “Advance on mouse click”

If you’d like users to go to particular places, then turn OFF PowerPoint automatic advance feature Select all your slides Click on the animations tab Disable the “On Mouse Click Check box.

(This will stop users from moving the slide show on sequentially, rather than through your navigation system.

Turn off “Advance on mouse click”

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Ways to create interactivity – NAVIGATION BAR

Create a navigation bar

Home Page Click the format tab, choose a shape and

drag the cross hairs to place the shape. Duplicate the slide Click shape effects and select shadow. Give

the unselected button an outer shadow and the selected button an inner shadow

Click the insert tab and click the action button and link each button to the appropriate slide.

Create a navigation bar

Home

About

Contact

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Ways to create interactivity – NAVIGATION BAR

Create a navigation bar

About Page You’ve already created the three buttons,

so simply copy and paste them On the home tab, click shape effects and

select shadow. Give the home button an outer shadow and the about button (on the selected page) an inner shadow

If you have copied and pasted, you will find that each button is already linked to appropriate slide.

Create a navigation bar

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Home

About

Contact

Ways to create interactivity – NAVIGATION BAR

Create a navigation bar

Contact Page You’ve already created the three buttons,

so simply copy and paste them on the new page

On the About tab, click shape effects and select shadow. Give the contact button (on the selected page) an inner shadow

If you have copied and pasted, you will find that each button is already linked to appropriate slide.

Create a navigation bar

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Home

About

Contact

Ways to create interactivity

How to generate feedback

Using sound To add sound as feedback, highlight the

object and press action. Create a hyperlink to the page you’d like to

jump to. Click the “Play sound ” check box and

choose a sound effect Click OK

How to generate feedback> Using SoundUsing Mouseclicks

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Ways to create interactivity

How to generate feedback

Using Mouseclick To add a mouseclick as feedback, highlight

the object and press action. Create a hyperlink to the page you’d like to

jump to. Click the “Highlight Click” check box Click OK

How to generate feedbackUsing Sound> Using Mouseclicks

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