Editable Text Boxes for PowerPoint

1. Editable Text Boxes for PowerPoint Produced by Dave Foord www.A6training.co.uk

2. Using the Editable Text Boxes • One major weakness in the way that most people use PowerPoint in education, is that generally the tutor pre-prepares the slides and the session becomes a one-way transfer of information from tutor to student. This is well documented as not being an effective method of learning. • One way to get round this, is include in the presentation some areas where the class contributes – and the tutor (or students if you have a wireless keyboard) type these contributions into the presentation – when you exit the presentation these contributions are automatically saved. • There is a tool in PowerPoint that allows you to do this whilst remaining in the slide show mode – it isn’t straight forward to set up so I have created some for you on the following slide. All you have to do is choose the colour combination and font style and size that you want – then select and copy the box from within the grid – go into your presentation and paste. You can then resize the box to suite your needs. • Note that the 2 right hand columns the boxes are transparent so that they can be used with any colour background, the boxes that head the columns – are not editable text boxes. • This resource is free for anyone to use in their presentations. • Please note that in Office 2007 and later, when you run this presentation, you may get a security warning – click on options and select ‘Enable’ www.A6training.co.uk

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