Presentation – Disco Lights

Today I tasked the class with creating a set of working disco lights! They were to create a powerpoint presentation to help out in the school’s theater, which only has white lights but does have a multimedia projector. They were to create a single slide presentation that made use of coloured shapes and animation effects.

The class

Created the shapes on a black background slide (the black shows up the lights best)
They applied custom animation effect then set them to start with the previous animation, other timings could be used but this would take more time (feel free to experiment)
This resulted in a very short presentation so we needed to change the effect options to increase the length of the show.
Finally the class changed the timing options to make the animation play forever and if they wanted they could reverse some of them for effect.

We ran out of time before I managed to get all the work in the drop box but I have included my attempt below (the software I am using does not show the repeat). The pupils work was fantastic today and we will get some examples up here next week.

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Working Toward – TCH 3-09a “Using appropriate software, I can work individually or collaboratively to design and implement a game, animation or other application.”