Interactive Training Presentation

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In Tom Bunzel's book, Sams Teach Yourself Mocrosoft Office PowerPoint 2003 he
says (on p. 7) that one type of PowerPoint presentation can be "an
interactive training presentation." This sounds like something that I could
find very useful. Unfortunately, I can find no other reference to this topic
in the book. I found nothing on Microsoft's website, either. Here's what
Bunzel says about it:

"Your show doesn't have to be linear--it can branch off to areas of interest
expressed by your audience or even provide questions that other software
tools can instantly tabulate in a database to educate an audience and provide
instant feedback."

Can anyone steer me in the right direction to find out more about this?

Thanks,

Patricia
 
This can be as simple as using "linking. This basically allows the user the
ability to click a button to go to a particular slide or even another
presentation. You can find out more about this at:

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

You can even create a Computer Based training (CBT) presentation, but this
will require the use of VBA (the built-in programming of PowerPoint). I
have a few examples at:

http://www.pttinc.com/cbt_development.html

I also have some game examples (like Jeopardy) at:

http://www.pttinc.com/ppgame.htm

David Marcovitz has a book out that explains VBA. You can check out his
site at:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/index.html

Hope these get you started down the road to interactive presentations!!!
 
There are lots of ways to do an interactive training presentation.
The main tool will be hyperlinks, the links and demos given above
give you a pretty good general idea.
One major issue is how the presentation will be given or distributed.
If not everybody has PPT on their computer, PowerPoint viewer seems to
be the way to go, which unfortunately means that you can't use VBA.
There are ways to package the viewer and the PPT (or PPS) files onto an
autorun CD.

VBA is necessary if you want to score quizzes within PowerPoint and can do
some other interesting things, but if you are aiming at a diverse audience
it may not be possible.

Non scored quizzes without VBA are certainly worthwhile. One method is to
have
multiple choice with shapes (e.g. circles or squares) to be clicked in front
of the possible answers.
Click on the wrong shape and you get hyperlinked to a hidden slide that has
some hints on how to get the right answer, along with a copy of the original
questions, answers, and hyperlinks. Click on the right shape and you get
congratulated and shown exactly how to find the right answer (this assumes
that some people will just guess their way through!)
You can also record voice or other audio and have that included either
automatically or on a click. Recording quality can be a major issue however.
Navigation through various branches of the presentation might be an issue.
Check
out using the kiosk presentation format, where everything is connected by a
specific hyperlinks.
You can also link to the web. Actually, just about any of PowerPoints
features can be used for interactive training. I haven't seen any
publication that focuses on this.
If you see one please let me know. David Markowitz's site comes closest.
I could provide you with an example of what I do (without the audio files
which are too big to send via e-mail).
ekmanp at gsb.ceu.hu.

Good luck.
 
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