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1.Ways to use PowerPoint
for digital storytelling
Create a story using PowerPoint
Part 1: Kirdup and Geocro in South AfricaPart 2: Brandon in CanadaPart 3: Alan, Jero and Nico in Argentina
The Tooth FairyA collaborative story between three nations
2. Make an e-book
Part 1: The Loose Tooth
One day a little girl was playing in the garden. Her name was Taylor andshe was playing with her cousin Kirsty. You see, Taylor had a wiggly tooth,and it was really bothering her, a lot. All of a sudden, POP! Out came thewiggly tooth!!"Hooray!" said Kirsty. "At last your tooth has come out. You will have to putit under your pillow so that the tooth fairy can come and get it and leaveyou some money.“"Oh really?" said Taylor clapping her hands with excitement.
PowerPoint can be uploaded to
many free e-book platforms –
Slideboom, Slideshare,
AuthorStream, Youblisher.com etc
Upload PowerPoints to Slideboomhttp://www.slideboom.com/people/fionabeal
Turn a PowerPoint into a movie
that can be uploaded to YouTube
Make animated digital stories using
PowerPoint
Make animated storieshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PihHZF732BY
Make Stop Frame Animations using
PowerPoint
Create a class circle story
with multiple endingshttp://tellmeadigitalstory.wikispaces.com/
Stories+With+Multiple+Endings
John
Introduction
Jane
John John Jane Jane
Create a storyboard plan
Introduction
John would click on the cave and then
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Jane would click on the house and then
create this plus the next two options
2.Ways to use PowerPoint in
a classroom with the students
Create and illustrate poems
Create a newsletter
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Make a poster using PowerPoint
Watch a poster-making tutorial on
YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxUAynlhOc
Make a brochures using
PowerPoint
Make tri-fold brochureshttp://www.onlinepclearning.com/make-brochures-with-powerpoint-2010/
Side 1 of the brochure
Side 2 of the brochure
How to’s
Make a calendar using PowerPoint
Make a calendarhttp://www.free-power-point-templates.com/articles/free-calendar-template-2013-powerpoint/
Use PowerPoint to make an
infographic
Make lovely photo designs
Make photo designshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRb12vfcNmU
Use PowerPoint to present
research on a topic in a different
way
Topic subheading (3 rooms)
Insert a downloaded video or an audio podcast that you make yourself –or two separate pictures
Hyperlink to a Word document of information
Picture
Add a sign to next room
Add a clipart figure that walks across the room
Change colour of walls and texture of floor in each room
Make an animation on he four
seasons (lower grades)
ClipartA great source of free, high resolution,
background-less clipart is
www.clker.com
Skills used in this lesson
• Moving shapes around
• Create four slides relating to seasons
• Create the scene from the clipart and add colour
• Add a verbal recording about each page
• “Bring to front” and “Send to back”
• Inserting and animating WordArt
• Animation: entrance and motion effects, reordering
Make an animation showing
photosynthesis (Grade 4)
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
water
oxygen
sugar
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
water
oxygen
sugar
Use PowerPoint to reinforce
learning about direct and indirect
speech
3Ways to use PowerPoint in a classroom as the teacher
Use it as a presentation tool in different types of ways …as
a morning warmup
Morning warm-upshttp://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/02/powerpoint-
classroom-new-twist
PowerPoint can be used for
embedding movie clips and
showing them to your class
A place for showing movie clips
You can make flipped classroom
lessons and How to’s for the class
You can make a fun games using
PowerPoint
Use the Mouse Mischief to add
many student mouses to working
on the PowerPoint
This slide allows learners to each select an answer from
the options given.
Here learners draw lines on the picture using their
mouses.
These learners are using one computer and two mouses to work
collaboratively on a picture.
You can insert all kinds of
documents into a PowerPoint
presentation
Insert all kinds of documents
*To do this go to Insert/Object/Create from File/ Browse/Open/Give icon
You can upload a PowerPoint
presentation to One Drive,
Dropbox, Box.net etc to get a web
address… or you can use
OneDrive to get PowerPoint online!
You can add comments to a
PowerPointhttp://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/collaborate-on-a-powerpoint-file-
by-inserting-comments/
Go to Review/Add comment1
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Add a comment
Use PowerPoint as a graphics
programme
You can create layers for graphicshttp://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/use-powerpoint-as-a-graphics-program/
Use PowerPoint for assessment
tests
Use PowerPoint for assessmentshttp://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/02/powerpoint-
classroom-new-twist
My Scoop.it collection of
PowerPoint ideashttp://www.scoop.it/t/the-uses-of-powerpoint-in-education
Thank you!