Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint®

Chapter 6. Animation

Entire books are available on creating animation with PowerPoint. This book attempts to show how animations created with PowerPoint can support instructional objectives. A number of instructional animations are illustrated in this chapter and are meant as inspiration sources and idea-starters.

Animations can be applied to objects, photos, and text in several ways:

• Entrance—item appears on the slide

• Emphasis—may or may not involve motion, for instance, emphasis may involve changing color or size

• Exit—item disappears from the slide ...