How to create a Powerpoint with hyperlinks to web pages, streaming video and audio, and other Powerpoint slides/shows on your computer!
A. First, insert a photograph on a Powerpoint slide.
1. Open the Powerpoint program, and create a New Presentation.
Choose a Blank Presentation, or choose from a design template.
2. Go to http://www.google.com , and type in First World War, then click on Images. Choose an image from the thumbnails displayed, click on one, right click on the image and choose "copy." OR, you copy and paste the World War I art below.
3. Go back to the Powerpoint slide you created, place your cursor on the slide field, and right-click + paste. Size and place the slide where you want it.
* You can also choose a background color for your slide (if you did not choose from the templates,) by clicking on "Format" (in the menu bar,) "background" (from the drop-down list,) and choose the color you desire to apply either to that slide or all slides.
4. Title the slide "World War I: 1914-1918" by selecting "Insert, "Text box" and typing in the title on the slide.
SCWriP Strategy link: Using the Visual Prompt strategy is a way to build observation skills, lead students to more descriptive fluency in writing, and focus students on essential concepts during the study of a subject.
B. The next task is to link to a World War I webpage.
1. First, link to a World War I Political Cartoon page.
a. Insert a textbox by clicking "Insert" (on the top taskbar,) then "textbox." Type "World War I Political Cartoon link."
b. To hyperlink to the website, click on "Insert" again, and this time choose "hyperlink." Paste the following website into the address box of the hyperlink: http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/wwi_intro.html
c. Check out your hyperlink by viewing your slideshow. Press either F5, or "View" + "Slideshow."
SCWriP critical analysis strategy:The Political Cartoon analysis assignment can be used with the link you just created, or with any current political cartoon. Check out this link for most of the world's political cartoonists.
2. To link to a WWI poetry site...
a. Insert another textbox (as you did with your title,) and title it "World War I Poetry." Next, highlight this title. Go to "Insert" in the task bar , choose "hypertext", and paste the following website into the box: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/
*Check out your hyperlink by going to the top taskbar, and clicking "View" + "Slideshow."
SCWriP Strategies:The War Poetry site lends itself well to the Tea Party strategy, Golden Line quickwrites, and text rendering.
C. We will now hyperlink to another Powerpoint slide within the same slideshow.
1. Create another Powerpoint slide by either holding down the Ctrl (Control) key + M, or choosing "Insert" (from the top Menu bar) and "New Slide."
2. Insert a textbox, and title it "World War I artwork Slideshow." (This will become another hyperlink later in this lesson.)
3. Return to slide #1 of your Powerpoint show. Insert a textbox, and title it "Link to World War I Artwork Powerpoint." Insert a hyperlink, and this time choose "Place In this Document." Choose "slide 2"
Check your hyperlink to slide 2 by going to the slideshow mode (Press F5, or View+Slideshow.)
Hyperlinking within a slideshow allows the user to follow a non-linear path, when investigating a lesson. A non-linear lesson allows learners the ability to choose their prefered learning style.
It is entirely possible to create a lesson in which the learner refers to slide 1 as the homepage, and the remaining slides are the multiple paths of the inquiry lesson. If you choose to use this method to create a lesson, it is important to create a "back" or "return" hyperlink to the homepage (i.e. slide 1.)
*Another possibility with hyperlinking is inserting an invisible link. To insert an invisible link, just insert a shape or text box, choose "no fill" and "no line" from the bottom task bar, and proceed to link this area to anything you desire (e.g. webpage, photo, slide, document....)
D. The next task is to hyperlink a new Powerpoint slide to some streaming video and audio.
1. Insert another textbox. Type either "Streaming Audio" or "Streaming Video," depending on which you choose to hyperlink. Click on "Insert" (on the upper menu bar.) Click on "hyperlink" in the dropdown menu.
2. Insert the appropriate web address (below) as a hyperlink for a streaming video or audio of World War I. Simply copy the web address, and paste it into the hyperlink you create.
You can link to the streaming video of "An American Nurse at War" ( http://www.nurse-at-war.org/images/movies/hpr100v.ram ) from the web site An American Nurse at War
OR the NPR Audio link of the Christmas Truce 12/24/1914: "Silent Night, with Stanely Weintraub, professor of History at Pennsylvania State University and author of the new book Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce. Paste the following web address into your hyperlink : http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=WESAT&showDate=01-Dec-2001&segNum=9&NPROldMediaPref=RM
You can check your progress by playing your Powerpoint show - Press the F5 key, or View + Slideshow (on the top taskbar.)
E. To practice linking to a Powerpoint, let's first download a Powerpoint from the web, and place it on your computer's desktop:
1. Go to the Powerpoint of World War I artwork by clicking the link: http://www.101freeway.com/users/green/ZombieDownloadPage.htm
2. To download the Powerpoint, simply click "save" in the dialog box, and then choose Desktop (or a folder of your choice in which to save the file.)
3. Return to Powerpoint, and click on slide #2 (which already has the title "World War I Artwork Powerpoint.")
4. To create a hyperlink, highlight the text "World War I artwork Powerpoint," and then click on "Insert" (on the upper menu bar.) Click on "hyperlink" in the dropdown menu. When you get the hyperlink dialog box, click on "Look In," and browse to find the Powerpoint entitled "World War I" (which should be downloaded to your desktop.) Click OK.
5. Check out your success by playing your powerpoint show: Click "View", then "Slideshow." Choose your hyperlink you created on slide #1, and then click the hyperlinked text on your slide. The Powerpoint should begin to play on your computer. (To end the show press the Esc key.)
F. Once you have practiced the hyperlinking of web sites, practice on your own with your favorite sites, search for streaming video with your favorite search engines, or check out some of the ones below:
Billy Collins Poetry (audio files of the Nobel Prize Winning Poet included) http://www.bigsnap.com/billy.html
C-Span Live Streaming Video http://www.c-span.org
Science: Weathering streaming video http://www.schoolvideos.com/product.cfm?id=2521S
Science: Nasa Streaming Video (including shuttle launches) http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.htm
National Geographic Streaming Video http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/programs.html
ESPN Sports Streaming Video and Audio http://msn.espn.go.com/
Streaming Radio Broadcasts http://www.shoutcast.com
Radio Free World (Radio Broadcasts from Around the World) http://www.radiofreeworld.com/
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