Creating and deploying digital educational resources.

Neon Sign in PowerPoint I saw an eye-catching graphic somewhere on Social media that gave the impression of a neon sign. I wondered whether it could be replicated in PowerPoint. It turns-out there are only a few things to bear in mind to get this appearance: 1. Firstly, you need a dark background. 2. Secondly, you need a light font. Not as in fluorescent, but as in thin lines. Cochocib is such a font. Another one is Tissa office pro thin . There may be others such as Adabi extra light and others. The point is, when they make fluorescent “Neon” Signs, they use thin tubes. Often in a cursive script – so that there are not too many starters for each individual letter, I think. The real-life examples below shows whats going on: 3. The third thing one sees in neon signs, is a slight reflection of the background of the sign – giving it a bit of a blurry double vision. 4. The fourth thing is obviously the glow, of the fluorescent light. Usually whites, blues, greens, and reds. 5. W...

   (Explore this course as well) Make an animated Process flow. One can create an animated process flow in PowerPoint using a .jpg image overlaid on the animation. The .jpg can be "cut out" to create the impression of movement behind the .jpg image. One could, for example, reveal what is happening in a pipe system: The action on the left is what is desired. The action on the right illustrates the point of layering the .jpg file on top of the arrows. Compare the two images of the selection tabs. In this arrangement, the arrows will be visible at the incorrect times. To create the cut-out. Insert the shape that you want to cut out from your image. Place the shape on top of your image where you want to reveal what is happening under your image. First, select your image(1) and the shape (2) you want to cut out. (The order in which you choose the objects, affects the result.) Now select Shape Format (3) and Merge Shapes, Combine (4) to make your cut-out.    With your...

 Make a Custom Shape in PowerPoint. We will hardly ever use all the shapes available in PowerPoint, but sometimes we need a shape that is not available. For example, we may need a shape that resembles a film strip. Something like this.  To make a shape like this needs only a few keystrokes and a few seconds in PowerPoint. I started by drawing a blue rectangle and then clicked on it, held the Ctrl key down, and dragged it to make an exact duplicate of the rectangle. I made this second rectangle smaller and repeated the process runs as follows: Once you have all your little blocks in place, select everything: Now click on 1. Shape format. 2. Merge Shapes. 3 Combine. 4. This will be the effect: This short video also displays the process. I promised a copy of the presentation that I used to create the YouTube Short with. Here it is. Visit my course at Udemy on Interactive PowerPoint Animations. PowerPoint presentations to be used as templates for your own animations are availabl...

Interactive PowerPoint Animation for Education| In my 2023 Udemy course , I demonstrate how to create and publish interactive animations in PowerPoint. We follow the process as outlined in this video: The process to create interactive PowerPoint animations The "Telescopes" example below is an instance of what I am proposing: The learner watches a narrated animation (that started life in PowerPoint) on the operation of two types of telescopes and then at various points during the animated presentation, she has to interact with what is on screen using the H5P video interactivities. A working example of an interactive PowerPoint animation The loop is of course not fully closed: At the end of the presentation, the learner gets a report of what he knows and what he does not yet know. The teacher, however, does not know yet, because this blog site won't give her a report. To close the loop fully, the H5P interactivity should be deployed in a Learner Management system. We cove...

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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…