Utilize PowerPoint Alternative to Activate the Classroom

cael
3 min readNov 8, 2016

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Here is one headache for most of the teachers. It is very hard to attract students’ attention in the classroom. They are always attracted by the funny and fancy things. However, for most of the teacher, they only have PowerPoint to present the lecture, which cannot be appealing enough to interest the students. Many teachers have tried some other PowerPoint alternatives, but it is so difficult for teachers without professional designing skills and technology skills. Thus, I spent a long time to find one easy-to-use presentation maker with amazing effects. In the end, I find Focusky, the easiest way to make an amazing presentation for your students.

What are the outstanding characteristics of the presentation made by Focusky? I would take some features for example in the following parts.

1. Zooming and rotating

There is one feature suitable for teachers very much. The zoom-in-and-out feature. When you need to stress on one of the key points of the presentation, you can zoom into the key point and show to your students. It is no more than easier. And then just zoom out to the outline. No matter zoom in or zoom out, there is no little fuzzy condition appear in your canvas as long as you are using the vector materials from the Focusky materials library.

Besides, the rotating effect of the frames is also the key point to attract students. Use your mouse to change the angle of the frame. While presenting, from frame to frame, you will notice the rotating effects obviously. The cool effect must the attraction to your students.

2. Multimedia

 Video: a video for the texts can deepen the main idea in students’ mind. Besides, students would prefer an interesting video than the silent textbooks.

 Music: appropriate music can relax students’ stressed emotions and make them be more concentration on the lecture.

 Slideshow: the slideshow is the best way to present the images of one text to your students. In this way, students can pay attention to the images and be more interested in the lecture.

3. Animation

This part may attract the students the most.

Dynamic roles: in the library of the dynamic roles, you can find the roles of teacher and student. It is free to apply these roles to tell a story. For example, you can make one frame do the Q&A. The “teacher” asks a question while “students” ask the questions. You can add the dialog box to show the students’ the questions or it is so nice to dub the questions and answers with your students and then insert the audio into the frame to match with the dynamic roles. So interesting, right? It can make your classroom be more interactive.

 Animation editor: what’s more, you can make every object in the frame move just like dynamic objects. Open the animation editor, choose the object and add appropriate effect for it. Entrance, emphasis and exit effect can be applied to the object. Make your presentation a real animated video to your students.

You are allowed to visit the official website for more example for making and designing reference.

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