Creating and deploying digital educational resources.

How Lightning Forms| The animation in PowerPoint The animation below is to help my learners understand how lightning forms. It is published in an I-frame. This is a good option for posting a PowerPoint animation because the learner controls the speed of the presentation. He or she has to click on the forward or backward control buttons in order to see the display.  This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office .   Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are available for all the examples used in the course. Sometimes I have discount coupons for the course to give away. I post the coupons on my Facebook page, but they go quick, so I offer them to my mailing list first. Please send me an e-mail  johan@myfutureway.co.za       Loading…

The Gravity Battery| Introduction to the PowerPoint animation Below is a scheme to demonstrate how renewable energy may be stored. It was created to demonstrate how animations in PowerPoint may be deployed by educators. I created the animation as part of my course mentioned below. In the course, this and other animations are dissected, to demonstrate to participants how to create interactive learning resources without spending time or money to learn new platforms and tools.   Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are available for all the examples used in the course. Sometimes I have discount coupons for the course to give away. I post the coupons on my Facebook page, but they go quick, so I offer them to my mailing list first. Please send me an e-mail  johan@myfutureway.co.za       Loading…

Examples of ways to publish PowerPoint animations| Try viewing this blog in various browsers. The morphing animation is displayed using a variety of strategies. Various browser settings and various levels of sophistication of your audience may cause unexpected results. Strategy 1. This is the "native" PowerPoint presentation displayed as in iframe in this blog: For this strategy to work, you need a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription in order to publish your PowerPoint presentation to the web. One of the options then open to you is to embed your presentation as an iframe. In the event that you don't have that subscription, you can use Strategy 2 below. Note that Google slides lose some of their animation and sound. It is quite easy to bring the sound back. Google slides is a good option if you don't have a high-end Microsoft subscription. There does not seem to be a way to make the animation run automatically.

  An example to demonstrate PowerPoint's morphing transition| Not all browsers were created equal Try viewing this presentation in various browsers. The moral of the story is, you may spend a lot of time preparing animations for learners, but the browser that your learners use may let you down. They may think you created a crappy animation. The things that seem to impact the morph are: whether there are cached data in the browser; whether the person that developed the animation has it open in his development environment and how many other people have the animation open at the same time. There also does not seem to be a way to play the animation automatically. Below is an MP4 version of the simple animation.   Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are available for all the examples used in the course. Sometimes I have discount coupons for the course to give away. I post the co...

An English Grammar example of an Interactive PowerPoint Animation| The following is an English grammar example published in PowerPoint for the Web if you have that kind of subscription with Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Google Slides If you don't have a Microsoft365 subscription, you can always convert your presentation to a Google Slides presentation and publish it from Google Drive. Below is the Google Slides version. Google Slides couldn't make the original sound files work, so I reinserted them after importing them into Google Slides. The original PowerPoint version also relied on the Morph transition, which is not available in Google slides. So the entered text will display a little differently. I promised my students links to a site that gives all the tenses of all the verbs used in the example. (The links open in new windows...) (to go) (to eat) (to attend) (to do) (to look) (to swim) Cli...

  Interactive Electrical Technology example Using PowerPoint Below is an interactive electrical technology example of an online PowerPoint presentation. It uses the principle of linking various slides with each other and as the user clicks on the switch the appropriate slide is displayed. Note that the user still has the option to click on the slide controls at the bottom of the presentation. This animation and others are discussed in my Udemy course, the links to which are below. This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office .   Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are available for all the examples used in the course. Sometimes I have discount coupons for the course to give away. I post the coupons on my Facebook page, but they go quick, so I offer them to my mailing list first. Please send me an e-mail  johan@myfutureway.co.za   ...

The Cardiac Cycle The Pumping Heart animation. (The pumping heart animation is the first "dissection" in the "Section 4 Dissection Lab 1" part of the course. A Udemy course, soon to be launched.) If you haven't seen the animation, go to the page link above, or look at the animation below.  Pumping Heart   Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are available for all the examples used in the course. Sometimes I have discount coupons for the course to give away. I post the coupons on my Facebook page, but they go quick, so I offer them to my mailing list first. Please send me an e-mail  johan@myfutureway.co.za       Loading…