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PowerPoint as a Game Making Tool.

PowerPoint is a great tool for using as a game -making software in class activities.

  • It is installed everywhere
  • Students are familiar with the basics of PowerPoint
  • It is easy to learn how to animate with PowerPoint
  • Even if someone doesnt want to bother with learning animation, there are a lot of easily modified game templates available that can be used to make games.

The following are some interesting links to PowerPoint game making sites:

An article on what features a good computer game should have - have your students read this before they start planning their game.

http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/downloads/tutorials/goodgame.zip

PowerPoint Game templates

http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/MiniT/Games/Games.htm

http://be-a-gameshow-host.wikispaces.com/PowerPointTempates

This last site is pretty nice - includes video instructions describing each game and showing how to customize it.

http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html

 

Examples of Animated PowerPoints - some of this stuff is pretty amazing

http://pptheaven.mvps.org/index.html

Home Made PowerPoint Games - from the College of Education, University of Georgia

http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/

Special Animation Effect Tutorials - teleports, timers, Blasts, Countdowns Spirals...

http://pptheaven.mvps.org/tutorials.html

More Powerpoint Animation Tutorials

http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/dynamicppt.htm


Use Comments as an Alternative to Speaker Notes

Dr. Charles Hathaway Charles Hathaway, Assistant Professor of Nursing ,has an alternative to using speaker notes as supplemental information when distributing PowerPoint lectures to students:

Use the Markup and Review toolbar to insert comments next to bullet points on the slides. When the viewer hovers over the icons on the screen , supplemental info pops up. This is a little more user friendly than speaker notes, as the comments can be placed anywhere on the slide.

(Note that in order to see the comments, the viewer will not be using presentation mode , but will view it in edit mode- similar to how one would view speaker notes.) View an example of comments used in one of PowerPoint lectures:

http://www.usi.edu/health/facultyorientation/assets/charles_ppt comments.ppt

Print PowerPoint handouts for your students with multiple slides per page that show speaker notes.