David M. Marcovitz

Powerful PowerPoint for Educators (eBook, ePUB)

Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book helps educators unleash the interactive potential of PowerPoint to build their own multimedia material that perfectly matches the needs of their students.

While PowerPoint affords powerful capabilities for creating dynamic classroom lessons and enriching curriculum, few educators understand how to take advantage of these built-in features. The second edition of this practical guide helps educators produce creative multimedia material for their students, regardless of their level of programming proficiency.

Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive, Second Edition discusses the educational benefits of multimedia instruction and provides a review of intermediate PowerPoint skills. Author David Marcovitz explains the concept of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting and provides progressively advanced skills and practice examples. While other books that describe VBA are written in a highly technical manner, this book is geared toward educators with little or no programming background and includes tips for modifying the practice examples for their own interactive multimedia projects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216131205
• Artikelnr.: 68167901

Autorenporträt

DAVID M. MARCOVITZ is Associate Professor and Educational Technology Director, Department of Education, Loyola College, Baltimore. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he studied support for technology in elementary schools. He has taught computer applications and computer programming at the high school level, and he has worked as a technology specialist in a high school. Prior to teaching at Loyola College, he taught in the Educational Technology Program at Florida Atlantic University. He was hired by Loyola College in 1997 to develop a Masters program in Educational Technology, a program he coordinates and for which he teaches many of the classes, including Multimedia Design in the Classroom. He is the author of several articles about educational technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: Multimedia Design Introduction Vocabulary What Is
Multimedia? The Design Process Project Organization Metaphors Storyboards
and Flowcharts Designing Assignments for Your Students Conclusion Chapter
2: Getting Started Introduction Vocabulary PowerPoint, Windows, and Mac OS
Settings 1. Stop Hiding File Extensions 2. Install a Local Printer Driver
(Windows Only) 3. Sounds Settings for PowerPoint 2007/2008 and Earlier 4.
Show the Developer Tab in the Ribbon 5. Set Macro Security 6. Create a
Folder and Save PowerPoint File Types PowerPoint Versions Opening a File
with Macros Conclusion Chapter 3: Traditional and Multimedia Features of
PowerPoint Introduction Vocabulary Inserting Images Photo Albums Sounds
Linking and Embedding Sounds (PowerPoint 2007/2008 and Earlier) Hypertext
Links Linking within Your Presentation Linking outside Your Presentation:
Web Pages and Other Documents Buttons Text for Buttons Sound for Buttons
Aligning Objects and Other Details Trigger Animations (Windows Only)
Controlling Navigation with Kiosk Mode Saving as a PowerPoint Show
Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 4: Introducing Visual Basic® for
Applications Introduction Vocabulary What Is Visual Basic for Applications?
What Is an Object-Oriented Programming Language? Conclusion Exercises to
Try Chapter 5: Getting Started with VBA Introduction Vocabulary Accessing
the VBA Editor What If It Didn't Work? Help! I've Lost My Windows Be a
Scripter: Change Things in Quotes Subroutine, Procedure, or Macro Tying
Your VBA Script to a PowerPoint Button Tying Your VBA Script to Any Object
What's in a Name? Changing a Button Securing Your VBA Script from Prying
Eyes Conclusion Exercise to Try Chapter 6: Let's Get Scripting
Introduction Vocabulary Variables and Getting Input Variable Declarations
Variable Types The YourName Procedure and Abstraction Force the Student to
Type Something What Else? A Personal Response and a Short-Answer Question
Running Your Scripts Calling a Procedure from Another Procedure Putting It
Together: A Complete Quiz Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 7: A
Scripting Bag of Tricks Introduction Vocabulary Comments Navigation: Moving
from Slide to Slide The Secrets of the MsgBox Procedures, Functions, and
Parentheses Hiding and Showing PowerPoint Objects Let's Get Started:
Initializing Your Presentation Referencing Objects by Number What's in a
Name? Finding and Changing Object and Slide Names Shape Names Slide Names
Using Names Let's Get Started Again This Slide or Another Slide I Lost My
Shapes Putting the Student's Input into a Box Manipulating Text in Objects
With Blocks Adding Text Manipulating Parts of Text in an Object What Can
You Change Other Things You Can Do to Text Manipulating Text: The Mystery
Example Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 8: Quizzes and Tests
Introduction Vocabulary Simple Multiple-Choice Quizzes Keeping Score Try
Again: Answer Until It's Right Short-Answer Quiz Questions Do Spelling and
Spacing Count? Bonus Trick: Three Tries Try Again and Again: Answer Again
After It's Right How Did You Do: Reporting Results to the Teacher Learn
First, Ask Questions Later: The Tutorial and Quiz Lost in Hyperspace: Where
Have I Been? Hide the Quiz Button Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 9:
More Tricks for Your Scripting Bag Introduction Vocabulary Conditionals:
The If Statement Looping While Loops Do Loops For Next Loops For Each Loops
Infinite Loops Parameters Timed Functions Saving and Quitting Adding
PowerPoint Objects Arrays I Don't Know How Many Questions: ReDim to the
Rescue Which Button Did I Press? Random Numbers Randomly Generated
Questions Keeping Score Try Again: Answer Until It's Right Choose Questions
Randomly from a Pool Ask How Many Questions You Want Keeping Score
Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 10: Advanced Scripting Tricks
Introduction Vocabulary Tags More Tags Stop in the Middle: Saving State
Writing to a File Reading from a File Communicating with Excel Conclusion
Exercises to Try Chapter 11: Debugging Tips Introduction Vocabulary My
Scripts Always Work the First Time Testing for Bugs No News Is Bad News
PEBKAC Errors The Error in Red I'm Not Seeing Red, but I'm Seeing Red
Commenting Out Compiling Your Code Debugger An Ounce of Prevention
Capitalization Don't Capitalize to Prevent Bugs Naming Conventions Option
Explicit Indenting Hints from the VBA Editor VBA Help Common Bugs Multiple
Modules Duplicate Variables Duplicate Procedures Extra End Sub The
Forgotten Dim Exclamation Points in File Names Debugging Steps Error
Trapping Bugs That Aren't Your Fault Final Word on Debugging and Error
Prevention Conclusion Exercises to Try Chapter 12: Templates Introduction
Vocabulary What Are Templates? Saving Your Template The Pick-a-Partner
Template Project Conclusion Exercises to Try Epilogue References Index