ICT in The Class

How To Play With Power Point In Teaching and Learning Proccess On The Classroom

Instructions

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The first thing you want to do when designing a PowerPoint game for students is to pick an eye-catching design that'll grab and hold on to their attention. PowerPoint comes with a few pre-set designs that you can take your pick from by clicking the "Design" tab along the top of the window after opening PowerPoint 2007 (see picture). You can also change the colors of the design by using the buttons under the "Design" tab.

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Most games use some sort of table of point values or dollars that can be clicked to bring up questions. To insert a "Jeopardy!" - style table, you will need to click the "Insert" tab and click "Table." You can drag your mouse to highlight the number of rows and columns you want (see picture); 6 by 6 fits pretty well for classroom game purposes.

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Once your table is inserted, you will need to enlarge it to take up the whole slide, or at least most of it. The design will be covered for this slide, but don't worry, it will show on the question slides. Just click and drag the edges of the table to enlarge it to the size you desire. Then, you can type into the darker cells along the top of the table different catergories for your game (in the case of this image, the steps of the writing process). Also type point values (or dollars, or whatever you want) into each column of cells. We'll add hyperlinks in a moment.

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You're going to want to make the text bigger and center it in the cells to make it more aesthetically pleasing (the kids love stuff that looks good). Highlight all of the cells, and under the "Home" tab, you can change the text font, size, and center it (see picture). Play with fonts and sizes until you find something you like.

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You will need to create your question slides before you can link to them from the table slide you just created. To add a new slide to the show, simply right click in the pane on the left below the thumbnail of the slide you're working on. Select New Slide and a new slide with your chosen design will appear. Type your first question onto the new slide; we'll link to it from the table in a moment.

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To hyperlink to this slide, now, you will have to go back to your first slide (the one with the table), highlight the cell in the first column, first row (for this example, the first "10"), and right-click. Select "Add Hyperlink." In the window that pops up, select "Place in this Document" in the left-hand pane (see picture). Once there, you can select the slide you want to hyperlink to (in this case, Slide 2), and a preview of it will even appear on the right. Click "OK," and you've got a hyperlink!

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The hyperlinked text will now be a different color than the other text, and underlined. If you right-click it, you can choose to "Go To Hyperlink" and you will be brought to the slide you have hyperlinked to. Now, while playing the game, you will probably want to be able to jump right back to the table slide from the question slide. For this, you will want to put a "home" hyperlink on every question page that links back to the slide. I suggest clicking the "Insert" tab, selecting "Shapes," and clicking the action button that looks like a house on the bottom (see picture). You can turn this picture into a hyperlink to the first slide by right-clicking the house and repeating Step 6, linking to Slide 1. You can copy and paste this house to every question slide, and the link will work as long as you created the link before copying.

8 . Make your question slides by repeating Step 5 as often as you need, and create hyperlinks to each question using Step 6, and you've got yourself a fun, clickable, classroom review game that the kids will love! Break students into teams and keep score for a motivating challenge they'll ask for again...and you'll be able to allow that with ease by simply changing the column titles and questions on the slides!

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