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
 
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/
Please tell us your ppt version, and get back to us here
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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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