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Interactive Presentations
Learning objectives
How a storyboard can help structure a presentation.
Understand how sound, animation and video
can be used to make a presentation interactive. Know the difference that exists between
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To help you plan your presentation you can use a
storyboard.
As the name implies, this is a board or piece of paper which tells the story – explains what will be on each slide.
On the next two slides are examples which show the plan for the first two slides of a presentation.
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To help you plan your
presentation you can use a
storyboard.
You sketch by hand what you want to include on
each slide.
Creating the presentation is
quicker and easier
because you have planned
what you want to do.
You can create a master slide that includes the things that stay the same (colours, logos, fonts
perhaps).
To make this slide, we used the master slide and added a title, buttons and this text.
A professional looking slide show will be consistent. That means that some things will be the same on every slide.
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An animation is text or an image that moves.
Most presentation packages have the facility of animating text and graphics
Which is the most effective, 1 or 2?
Animation can make the presentation more interesting.
1. 2.
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Which is the most effective, 1 or 2?
1) Drawing a face
start with a circle for the face and add some hair create the eye using four different sized ovals copy and paste to make two the same
add a nose
finish off with a lovely smile.
Which is the most effective, 1 or 2?
2) Drawing a face
Animations enable text and graphics to appear as and when they are needed for greater impact.
start with a circle for the face and add some hair create the eye using four different sized ovals copy and paste to make two the same
add a nose
finish off with a lovely smile.
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A transition usually creates an effect to show a change
as the presentation goes from one slide to the next.
Sound, animation and video can enhance a presentation in a number of ways:
they break up the material and make it more interesting
some audiences respond better to sound and vision certain things need to be heard, for example a
narration
other things need to be reviewed – a film recording.
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In a presentation about musical instruments, you can
learn about what an instrument sounds like in addition to how it looks.
This can be done by using an image and then adding a sound which can be played to hear the instrument
playing.
Sound can also be added for audiences who have poor vision.
A video can be very effective to illustrate a point being made, for example how an outfit looks on a person.
It can also be used to demonstrate, for example ‘the perfect forehand’. This could be shown in slow motion.
Video can also create a more realistic picture of the point being made.
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Many presentations are linear. This means they move from one slide to the next, from beginning to end.
Creating buttons like the ones below make it easier to go
backwards and forwards. They can also be eye-catching. Try going backwards using the button below.
Presentations can be created in a way that enable the user to jump to different places – non-linear.
This makes the presentation interactive – it gives the user some control.
Click the forward button to see an example.
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An interactive adventure
It’s closing time in the
museum. The lights go out and the darkness surrounds him.
Arizona Jones’s latest adventure sees him
searching for mummies in the museum of Egyptology…
He’s all alone and terrified! What should he do?
Search for a light switch. Search his bag for a torch.
Arizona Jones and the mummy mystery
Arizona stumbles around in the
darkness frantically searching for a light switch…
Instead, he falls over a display cabinet, decides to give up the search and go home.
Bad luck. Arizona didn’t find any mummies.
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Arizona Jones and the mummy mystery
Great news! He finds a torch in his bag. He switches it on and he looks around.
Ahead of him, there are two doors. Which one should he go through?
The door on the left.
The door on the right.
Arizona Jones and the mummy mystery
He sees lots of people sitting down eating
cake and drinking coffee.
He’s in the museum’s café and he hears a familiar voice…
‘Hello Arizona’ ‘Hello mum.’
Congratulations! You found a mummy.
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Arizona Jones and the mummy mystery
The door is stiff. It won’t open. He pushes as hard as he can and the door slowly creaks open…
He enters the main exhibition hall of the museum!
‘Oooh, look at the scary mummy’
Congratulations! You found the mummy. Arizona Jones is
successful once again.
Play again? End game.
Museum of Egyptology
What shall we do?
You trip up over a display case
and go home
Bad luck Try again?
You find a torch and switch it on.
You can see 2 doors Exhibition room You found lots of
mummies! Hello Mum! You
found a mummy
Try again? End No No Yes Right Pocket Left Light
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This touch screen shows an interactive information system.
It helps shoppers find the goods they want, but it’s much better that it’s
interactive.
You wouldn’t want to read through the details of
hundreds of shops to find the one you want.
A presentation must have a beginning, a middle
and an end.
To plan a presentation it is useful to create a
storyboard.
A master slide can be used for items that are to appear on all slides.
A presentation can be made interactive by adding
animations, transitions, sound and video.
Slides can be linked together. They do not have to be viewed in order.
