Animations in Power Point as a
technique for students learning and engagement.
Multimedia software has become an essential part of today's teaching and learning process. While many interactive multimedia software programs certainly exist, PowerPoint is one the most widely available and used programs today. In the late 1990s, several studies indicated that students found PowerPoint-based lectures more interesting than traditional lectures. Whether used for teacher-led presentations or student-led projects such as digital storytelling, reports, or instructional gaming, presentation software can help organize and enhance the delivery of content across curriculum areas while accommodating students of various ages, cultures, and learning styles. PowerPoint format is easy to edit and can be adapted to any student population. Most people, however, don't use the program's features beyond creating basic slides with text, transitions, clip art or pictures, and hyperlinks. They do not take advantage of the many other capabilities, such as Custom Animation, in designing their presentations. This article explores how creating custom animations can support teaching goals and further engage students in a presentation. Illustrated are some step-by-step animation techniques and design considerations for creating effective presentations. Video below demonstrates an animated, interactive English story telling through animation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gEbhVYhF87zeISLciXQFP4NEscjkODB8/view?usp=sharing
Animations Can Engage Student Interest
The use of animations is becoming increasingly widespread in many educational presentations. Animations when designed properly can attract and maintain interest in a presentation and gaining learners attention. Compared with static graphics, animated graphics can be:
- More informative
- Closer to the characteristics of the subject matter
- More explicit
- More explanatory
- Clearer
However, animated graphics are not
intrinsically superior to static graphics. Without proper educational design,
animations can be inferior to static graphics. And it's very important for
educators to design and use appropriate animations for educational purpose.
PowerPoint Custom Animations
Designing an animation in PowerPoint to contain a number of multimedia elements, including text, graphics, and sound, can add interest and excitement for students learning a particular concept. The Custom Animation feature in PowerPoint provides a list of effects that users can apply to objects such as pictures, text, and other graphics to animate them during a slide show. We can also add effects to picture and texts and design like how we want it to appear. Whether the user adds a music soundtrack to create a certain mood or different sound effects to reinforce key points, they will further capture the audience's attention and reinforce the message.
The material which I have designed here is of class VI Social Studies subject on the topic Moon. The material which I have designed here is of class VI Social Studies subject on the topic Moon. I designed in Power Point using various features. As soon as students watch this video they will have a sense of how sun, moon and earth appears in the space and they will have better understanding of rotation and day and night as well. After watching this video, teacher can assign them to explain rotation of moon around earth in their own words. The audios and graphics can gain their attention and listen to it more. After designing any animation you can go to file button, click on Save as and select the file type as Window media video. Then it will appear as video and use it.
There are many ways we can use Power
Point for students learning. English teacher can design animi to narrate
stories, Science teachers can explain water cycle and Math can teach
calculations and etc. Even though creating these designs is a tough job, teachers
are the main source from which students will learn and teacher’s effort counts
in students learning. Not only we can teach children, we can update ourselves
with new knowledge of using various features provided by Power Point.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gEbhVYhF87zeISLciXQFP4NEscjkODB8/view?usp=sharing
The link provided above is a draft from which I have designed and animation in PPT. You will see the magic of ICT and how you can extend the knowledge of ICT in teaching and learning. We can use various shapes and effects to make anything lively. The elephants, the backgrounds, tortoise, trees and rooster are all made from shapes and effects.
This article explored how PowerPoint
animations can serve as an effective teaching tool. Using animations in
teaching can increase student interest and motivation while illustrating
concepts and procedures in a more easily understood way. Students have many
learning styles, thus animations provide another modality to actively engage
the learner. Although poorly designed animations can be distractions in a
presentation, properly designed animations can reinforce and enhance the ideas
and concepts being taught. When tied to lesson objectives, animations have the
potential to create high-quality learning environments that actively engage the
learner, thereby promoting deep learning.
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