Newbie: Hoping to use PowerPoint to teach basic English to young Kids

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Elbow

Hello,
This is my first post.
Im an ENglish teacher in Japan and I wanted to know if its possible to
use Powerpoint to show flash card type images of objects , pictures etc
and also have a recorded wav,mp3, of my voice saying the word.
ex:
Picture of a cow pops up.
Student says the word and can check if they are correct by tapping an
image of a mouth and they can hear my voice saying 'cow'.

If this is possible with Powr Point Id be glad to hear from anyone who
could assist me.

Many thanks

Elbow
 
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Glen Millar

Hi,

You would first need a sound of each word you want to say. Then, you could
set each object to play the particular sound when the object is clicked on.
Maybe by this sequence:

Right click on the object| Action Setting| Mouse click tab| Play sound| and
use the drop down menu to scroll to "Other Sound". Then browse to your sound
for that item.

When run as a slideshow, the student could say the word, then confirm by
clicking on the object. To get the sounds, you could be sneaky. Record one
voice sound per slide as a voice narration. Then save the presentation as a
web page. That will split all of the sounds into a folder for each slide.
Then you can collect them all and use them for your flash cards.Does that
help?

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
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Ute Simon

Hi Elbow,

if you are using PPT 2002 or 2003, you could also use trigger animations
instead of action settings: Insert your sound on the slide with "Insert -
Film and Sound - Sound from file", insert the mouth-pciture on the slide.
When inserting the sound, you'll automatically find a trigger item in the
animation task pane for that sound. Change that trigger settings to start
the sound, if the student clicks on the mouth-picture.

Kind regards,
Ute

Glen Millar said:
Hi,

You would first need a sound of each word you want to say. Then, you could
set each object to play the particular sound when the object is clicked on.
Maybe by this sequence:

Right click on the object| Action Setting| Mouse click tab| Play sound| and
use the drop down menu to scroll to "Other Sound". Then browse to your sound
for that item.

When run as a slideshow, the student could say the word, then confirm by
clicking on the object. To get the sounds, you could be sneaky. Record one
voice sound per slide as a voice narration. Then save the presentation as a
web page. That will split all of the sounds into a folder for each slide.
Then you can collect them all and use them for your flash cards.Does that
help?

--
Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Please tell us your ppt version, and get back to us here
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