How to create Interactive

Learning Centres In PowerPoint

Interactive Learning Centres

A great way to direct students to the websites you want them to use, is to create hyperlinked interactive pages in PowerPoint

These can be organised in Curriculum and or Group areas

MathsgroupsReadinggroups/Individualised activity pages/Subject specific

PowerPoint

Open PowerPoint

Click on the Title slide

Click on the Design button to choose a coloured background

Screen Capture Type in the name of

your group or Curriculum area

Go to the Website you want your students to link to

Take a screen capture of the screen by pressing down PrtSc button on Keyboard (or Fn – PrtSc)

Screen

Capture

Open Paint by going to Start – All Programmes –Accessories -Paint

Press Ctrl – V Click on the Square – Selector tool Click and drag around the part of the website you want to

use as a hyperlink

Copying and Pasting

Go back to PowerPoint

Press Ctrl – V to paste onto your PowerPoint page

Resize the picture by clicking and dragging on a corner

Go back to the website, copy the internet address by pressing Ctrl - C

Hyperlinking

Go back to your PowerPoint

Click on the Picture so it is selected

Click on the Hyperlink button on the toolbar

Press Ctrl – V

Click OK

Saving

The screen capture will now be hyperlinked

Repeat with more website links

Save this PowerPoint twice!

Save as a PowerPoint presentation file so that you can add to it later (Go to File- Save, name the file and save it to a folder).Save as a PowerPoint Show so that when the children click on the file it will open in full interactive Slideshow view. Go to File – Save As, click on PowerPoint Show