How to create Interactive Learning Centres In PowerPoint 2007

Interactive Learning Centres

A great way to direct students to the websites you want them to use, is to create hyperlinked interactive pages in PowerPoint

These can be organised in Curriculum and or Group areas

Maths groups Reading groups/Individualised activity pages/Subject specific

PowerPoint

Open PowerPoint Click on the Title

slide

Click on the Design Tab to choose a coloured background

Screen Capture Type in the name of

your group or Curriculum area

Go to the Website you want your students to link to

Take a screen capture of the screen by pressing down PrtSc button on Keyboard (or Fn – PrtSc)

Screen Capture

Open Paint by going to Start – All Programmes –Accessories -Paint Press Ctrl – V Click on the Square – Selector tool Click and drag around the part of the website you want to use as a

hyperlink

Copying and Pasting Go back to PowerPoint Press Ctrl – V to paste

onto your PowerPoint page

Resize the picture by clicking and dragging on a corner

Go back to the website, copy the internet address by pressing Ctrl - C

Hyperlinking

Go back to your PowerPoint Click on the Picture so it is selected Press Ctrl –K to open Hyperlink window

Press Ctrl – V Click OK

Saving The screen capture will

now be hyperlinked Repeat with more

website links

Save this PowerPoint twice!

Save as a PowerPoint presentation file so that you can add to it later (Go to File- Save, name the file and save it to a folder).Save as a PowerPoint Show so that when the children click on the file it will open in full interactive Slideshow view. Go to File – Save As, click on PowerPoint Show