Making+Animated+Films+with+MS+PowerPoint

=__Making Animated Films with Microsoft PowerPoint 2012 __=

Yes, we all know that you and your students can make films with MS Movie Maker and MS Photostory, but how many of us know that you can make films with MS PowerPoint as well!!
== This page will give you all the information you need to learn how to make powerful, entertaining and informative animated films with PowerPoint. Say goodbye to what you already know about PowerPoint presentations. By the end of this page, you and your students will know a lot more about PowerPoint and how it can be used to show learning and understanding!! ==

Please feel free to use what I have shown you on this page. Show your students and then let them show you 'what else' they can do whilst making their animated films and showing what they have learnt in your class!!

__ 1) What does a completed 'MS PowerPoint animated film' presentation/file look like? __
By clicking on the link below, you will be able to save and view how I have made an 'animated film' by using the tools found within MS PowerPoint. Feel free to have a look at the file and see how I have made the animated film. By clicking 'slideshow' and then 'slideshow from beginning', you will see the animated film played before your eyes!! The example below was what I showed my Humanities class in the first lesson. I used this 'animated film with PowerPoint' project to allow my students to show the 'fractured fairy tale' that they were writing as part of the 'Fairy Tales' unit of work in English. Students could also produced an animated film as part of their SOSE Curriculum. They needed to research a chosen topic or group of people and then produce a timeline of 10 major events that had occured in the history of their topic/group of people. My students could chose to show 1 (or more) of their timeline events as an 'animated film' with PowerPoint. Later on this page you will see a few more examples of the animated films that my students have produced in my Humanities class this year. and better still, within PowerPoint 2010, there is an option whereby you can now save the animated film ppt file as a Movie file (.wmv format). Here is the "Goldilocks" ppt saved as a .wmv file:

media type="file" key="15 Goldilocks and 3 Bears ppt presentation as film.wmv" width="300" height="300"

and below is another example of the type of 'animated film' that your students could do with MS PowerPoint. I produced the 'animated film' below for a presentation that I delivered to a group of 15 Early Childhood teachers. They asked me to show them how to make 'big books' electronically (that they could show to their K/prep/1 students on the IWB). For this 'animated film', I told the teachers that they could use a number of unrelated pictures/clipart and then ask their students to make a film that connects all the pictures in a narrative. Have a look and see what I showed these teachers:



==2) As I was creating the "Goldilocks" animated film ppt file (above), I recorded everything I did as a tutorial film. This film is available for you to download and use to learn how to make animated films with PowerPoint. The film is quite lengthy and it contains all the steps required to make an animated film in PowerPoint. I am intending to put 'audio/narration' over the top of the tutorial film in the coming weeks. Thanks.==

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3) As this is a 'Public Internet' space, please excuse me for not placing any of my students' completed animated films or details on this page.
==The main purpose of me creating this page in this Wiki is to give you an idea of how animated films can be made with PowerPoint and how these films actually allow for greater creativity, imagination and flexibility. Students can use the familar PowerPoint program in a new and innovative way and can really 'show' their learning and ideas in a way that is somewhat 'restrictive' when using the traditional Movie Maker and Photostory programs.== ==I trust that I have provided you with another option for making films in the classroom and I hope that I have inspired and motivated you to have a go at making your own animated films with Microsoft PowerPoint. Thanks. Scott.== I will be continuing this page in the near future with more aspects of how to use PowerPoint to make animated films in the classroom. Thanks.