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Visuals learning   Visuals have been proven to engage students in the learning process, and images stimulate their critical and creative thinking, by which students learn better and retain more information when abstract words are associated with images. In general, visuals can include but are not limited to: pictures, symbols, signs, maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and models.   My last Blogs was about converting Pictures on slide to Smart Art graphic in which I mentioned that by using this technique we could provide good presentation to our audiences and learners for good illustration for our topic: by using images and text at the same time, this will make them understand fast and they will not forget the topics.  I recently in my power point I made good using for this method of learning by using the way of converting pictures into smart art graphic and by that the leaner will see the pictures with some key words of my topic and this wor...

Convert pictures on a slide to a Smart Art graphic In this Blog I am going to introduce to my colleague an important way for designing the power point which I used to improve my coming slides in power point: this skill is about converting pictures to a Smart Art graphic: that is to say that in addition to converting text on our slide to a Smart Art graphic, we can convert pictures into Smart Art graphics. The pictures are automatically put in shapes and arranged based on the layout we chose. Practically we can illustrate the way of Converting pictures to a Smart Art graphic as follow :        *   Firstly we Select the pictures that we want to convert to a Smart Art graphic.( To select multiple pictures, we click the first picture, and then press and hold CTR L while we click the additional pictures) .        * Under Picture Tools on the Format tab in the Picture Styles group, click Picture Layout . Shows ...

Animation painter T his tool “ the animation Painter “ is very Important tool for interactive power point   I find it very useful   for copying   the animation and the animation pane   of all Kinds of things which could be Inserted in the power points slides:   That it could be used to copy animation of the   text and images and also videos . A nimation painter in power point is similar to Format Painter which used in word office to copy the format of the text and here in power point it uses to copy the format of the animation and the animation Pane.   It could be used and become valuable for the learners in their using the Images and object which used in all slide and which are repeated many time ,  like the arrows used for transition from one slide to the next or to the previous slide , and there by using an animation to be applied in one arrow and to copying this animation and animation pane to all others arrows is going to be very ...

Effective e Learning Presentations and Slideshows  This bellow subject I read this week about making my presentation interactive and immersive and I am sure when applying these steps I will ensure creating an interactive presentation.    “Each e Learning deliverable, regardless of the learning objective, in order to be effective has to be as interactive, immersive, and engaging as possible. To produce amazing and effective e Learning presentations and slideshows for learners we can   use the following e Learning presentation and slideshows tips in order to take full advantage of them. Map out the strategy in advance. Always focus on the learning goals . Text should be concise, clear, and carefully crafted. Use high quality, relevant images. Keep colors, branding, and overall design consistent throughout. . Include audio or video to create a more immersive experience . Embed links to references and resources ....