Nonlinear, interactive PowerPoint Presentations

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Nonlinear, interactive PowerPoint Presentations

• by Patricia Galien
• http//pjgalien.wordpress.com
• Make sure you are in slide show. Start the
  presentation by clicking the arrow below.

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Nonlinear, interactive PowerPoint
PresentationsHome

• Introduction

• Advantages

• Tools and Examples

• Hyperlinks

• Actions

• Video

Click on the button to return to this page.

• Steps

• Reminder

• Extras

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Nonlinear, interactive PowerPoint Presentations

• PowerPoint is typically used as a supplement to
  a presentation, but are you aware that it can
  also be used to make activities, games, and
  assessment tools that are student driven? Along
  with all of the features of linear presentations,
  non-linear presentations are interactive and they
  can be pretty cool! The presentation will explore
  the possibilities of these types of presentations
  and show you how to make them. To start, make
  sure you are in slide show view and click the
  arrow.

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Nonlinear PowerPoint Presentations

• Involve active participation since they allow the
  user to control how the presentation is viewed
• Can combine the presentation of material and
  comprehension checks
• Contain all of the features of PowerPoint
• graphics
• media
• sound

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Tools and Examples
Click on the down arrow to see the presentation.
Click on these pictures to see examples
Key Tools

• Buttons
• Pictures of Buttons
• Text
• Moraine Valley
• Images

Links

• Hyperlinks
• Link the buttons to anything outside of the
  PowerPoint presentation

• Actions
• Link the buttons to other slides in the
  PowerPoint presentation

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Hyperlinks(To link to something outside of the
presentation)
You can hyperlink to
Text
Moraine Valley (Select it.)
A Picture (Select it.)
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Actions (links to other slides within the
presentation)

• Link your buttons, text, or images to any other
  slide in the PowerPoint presentation by using
  actions.

(Select it.)
PowerPoint also provides some already made
buttons.
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Watch a ten minute video on nonlinear PowerPoint
presentations

Click on this picture to link to the video.
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Steps to Creating a Nonlinear PowerPoint
Presentation
First, develop your general idea. As the video
mentioned, some people like to draw a plan.
Then, collect the tools that you will need
buttons photos web site addresses documents media
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Steps
The first slide is usually a title slide.
The second slide is usually the home page. Put
navigation buttons (buttons that link to major
chunks of content) here.
Also, put action buttons on all of the pages, so
students can go back or return to the home page.

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Reminder

• If your presentation links to documents that you
  have (that are not on the Internet), these files
  need to go into the same folder as your
  PowerPoint presentation. This folder should
  contain
• The PowerPoint presentation
• Documents that link to the presentation (for
  example, a Word document)
• Media files

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Some Extras

A Video on Microsoft.com That Shows How to Link
Jeopardy Template
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Template by Mark E.
Damon (Scroll down this page to find the file.)