Many homes in Australia have Christmas or Advent calendars in their home. Each day of December,through to Christmas, children open the appropriate door for that date, and find either a chocolate or a Christmas image. Do you have one in your home?
Students in years 4 to 7 are going to make a digital calendar using MS Powerpoint. It is a simple enough process for all age groups and yet can be customized to suit the young and old. The students will follow these instructions using the image below as a guideline. Each date will open using a chosen custom animation feature of Powerpoint.
Instructions:-
- Goto MS Powerpoint
- Insert a table> 5 rows by 5 columns, add a clipart( representing Christmas) to each cell.
- There should be 25 Chrismas pics in total, with a very special Christmas pic in the last one
- Cover each cell with a shape
- Add numbers to each cell from 1 to
- Use custom animation to remove the shapes one at a time.
- Grab a screen dump, crop in MS Paint, save as a jpg and insert the image into your blog post, with a brief explanation on how you made your colourful calendar.
Below is an example of a calendar that Catie13 is working on
Have you done something like this with your students?
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Hope you don’t mind but have ‘Magpied’ your idea and made it ‘Interactive’! Have blogged and given reference to your post-hope that’s ok.
http://idsfac.me/Y2yzq8
Keep up the great work!
Julian
Thanks, Julian for magpieing the idea. That is the strength of social networking and working with a ‘global brain’. I was chuffed to think that you have taken it to the next stage (one that I have been trying to take for a while without making a screen cast.) I did not realise that you could grab embed code to make powerpoint presentations live, so thanks so much for sharing this next stage in sharing student work.
However, I am having trouble loading it at school so will try when I get home. Our proxy server and ISP provider block so many things. Initially I thought it was a Google Chrome issue and swapped to IE but got the same message. However, I shall perservere as it would be great to get this all working.