But Power Point is awesome for so many uses other than presentations. This is for kids and grown-ups alike.
I've given these tech tips to many classroom teachers and you'd be surprised at the number of joyful faces in the room.
If you teach K-12 kids, these tips are invaluable. Yes, all of the functions I'm going to describe can be accomplished with sophisticated programs, like Adobe Photoshop or Final Cut. I like to use one tool, Power Point, so kids become really familiar with the features. It helps them make much better presentations.
1. Group elements to make a jpeg
Do you ever wish you could label your blog image or put the source right on the picture? It's a snap in Power Point.
Add all of your elements to a power point slide. Select all, (ctrl+a). Right click or menu item: format picture - group. Then right click and save as a picture.
Kids love this! Look at the grouped image I made for the directions:
2. Make awesome titles for videos
Most basic video editing software has lame options for the video titles. But you can make a really cool title in power point, save the whole slide as a jpeg, and insert that into the video editor.
Here is a sample title one kid made opening his stop animation video.
3. Easy animated elements for video
Couple an animated slide with a video capturing program for easy video elements. Here are two examples. The first is from the intro video I use for my school's news show. The second was by kids advertising an upcoming "McDonald's Night" event.
Good summary! I actually often use the first one: combining all the pictures I like here and then play them with animation effect.
ReplyDeleteYou techie gal, you! You probably also know that you can now easily take out the background on a photo in Power Point. This is a feature for which I always turned to Adobe Photoshop, but its so much easier and faster in Power Point. (Its in the Format Picture tool bar).
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