Before I post Animated
Step-by-Steps® resources on the Teachers Pay Teachers site, I typically
import the resource into the Microsoft
PowerPoint app on my iPad Pro to
make sure that I haven’t overlooked any problems. Lately I’ve been noticing
that the Microsoft PowerPoint app has been responding differently.
When I use the swipe
to the left motion to trigger the animations, some come in with sound,
others do not. As you know from a previous post, there are two ways to trigger
the ASbyS animations in PowerPoint … a swipe to the left …. and touching an
imaginary narrow vertical bar on the far right side of the screen. In the past
my thinking has always been … If the child can motorically perform a reliable
swipe to the left, go with that as it has a more direct cognitive link to the
stars signaling an animation; otherwise, go with the tap on the far right as it
is motorically easier.
This ‘animation-sound’ problem does not occur when using the
Microsoft PowerPoint software on the computer or by extension on the
interactive whiteboard. I’ve field tested some simple modifications but none
seem to solve the problem. I’ve been hanging out on the microsoft office forums trying to find an explanation or more
importantly a solution but so far have received no insight into the problem.
So in the interim, when you use your Animated Step-by-Step
resource on your iPad, you may need to trigger the page animations by touching
the ‘imaginary bar’ on the far right of your iPad screen.
Stay tuned. I
hope a solution will be forthcoming.
…’til the
next post … (new posts every Monday)
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Augmentative
Communication Consultant
Speech-Language
Pathologist
Special
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