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**May 3 Interactive Games with PowerPoint and Flipviewer** PowerPoint is the go-to presentation software application for teachers and students, it is effective, dynamic and easy to use. Because it is easy to use, and because it is used so frequently PowerPoint is sometimes disparaged as a presentation tool. What a shame, with a little creativity PowerPoint can be used in a myriad of ways in the classroom to engage students as PowerPoint file users or producers and to enhance learning. Check out the items below for some ideas of new and unusual ways to use PowerPoint:

1) **PowerPoint Hide and Seek:** Add an image of a famous person, monument, landmark, piece of art, etc. to a PowerPoint slide. Use the shapes option in PowerPoint to cover the image with small squares or rectangles. Assign each of the squares or rectangles an exit animation (fly out, dissolve, fade, etc.) Display the PowerPoint slide to a class or group of students and ask the students to identify the image in the fewest number of guesses. Click to remove one square or rectangle with each student guess until the image is correctly identified.

Take a look at a sample of a PowerPoint Hide and Seek file. Click on the link below to open the PowerPoint Show. After the file opens simply click on Slide Show in the menu bar and run the slide show from the first slide.

2) **PowerPoint Pair Review:** Group students in pairs; one student sits facing the PowerPoint display area, the other student sits with his/her back to the PowerPoint display area. Use PowerPoint to display words or images related to a particular category on a slide. The student facing the PowerPoint display must give clues to his/her partner by using synonyms or descriptions for the words or images appearing on the PowerPoint slide. The object is for the student giving the clues to get his/her partner to identify the category as quickly as possible. For example the PowerPoint slide display might be the words: rain, hail, wind, snow. The student giving clues may NOT use any of the words displayed on the slide as clues to his/her partner, instead the clue giver may use only synonyms or descriptors. The goal is to get the partner facing away from the PowerPoint display to identify the category as weather.

PowerPoint can also be used to create interactive games on various levels. On the simplest level the game includes slides displaying questions with multiple-choice answers; along with slides displaying a response for a correct answer or an incorrect answer. An intermediate level game includes a loop requiring students to provide a correct answer before advancing to the next question; and an advanced level game provides for categories of levels of difficulty of questions as well as the correct and incorrect response slides.

**PowerPoint Mash-Ups** PowerPoint can be used in conjunction with other applications to create a whole new experience: **Flipviewer** for example is a free downloadable application which can be used to convert PowerPoint slides into interactive onscreen books. Simply create a PowerPoint presentation; save the PowerPoint file as JPEGS, then open the JPEGS in Flipviewer to see the PowerPoint slides displayed as pages in a book. Turn the pages by clicking on the corner of any page and moving the mouse to "page" through the book. Flipviewer can be downloaded from: @http://www.flipviewer.com/download/indexfvenp.php

**Mouse Mischief** is another free program that works with PowerPoint to convert PowerPoint into the equivalent of a CPS (classroom performance system) for assessment purposes. Mouse Mischief works with Microsoft Office PowerPoint versions 2007 and 2010. Download Mouse Mischief into PowerPoint and then create multiple choice slides; survey or poll question slides in PowerPoint. Display the PowerPoint presentation and students can respond to the multiple choice questions, surveys or polls by using wireless mice. Mouse Mischief can convert PowerPoint into an instant assessment tool for your classroom. For complete information regarding Mouse Mischief; including download link, set-up instructions and sample lesson plans access the Mouse Mischief website at: @http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/en-us/default.aspx

**Power PowerPoint - Advanced Techniques and Mash-ups:** Utilize the tutorials listed below for step-by-step instructions: 1) to create interactive games using PowerPoint 2) to insert movies and sound files into PowerPoint 3) to use Flipviewer with PowerPoint to create interactive on-screen books



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