Countdown Timers for PowerPoint

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Countdown Timers for PowerPoint

• Produced by Dave Foord

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Countdown Timers

• The following slides contain a series of timers
  that can be used in PowerPoint 2003, they may
  also work in earlier versions of PowerPoint.
• To see the timers in action, click the mouse to
  move forward a slide, then click again to start
  timer. Clicking again will forward the timer to
  the end of its sequence.
• The idea behind this, is one way to make a
  PowerPoint presentation to a large audience,
  slightly more interactive, is to set the students
  a question, activity, calculation etc. If
  appropriate a timer can be introduced, to time
  how long is available for them to complete the
  activity.
• There are timers for 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30
  seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20
  minutes.
• To use a timer, all you need to do is enter the
  editing mode of PowerPoint - copy desired timer
  into your presentation, each timer is made up of
  many components, so when copying you need to
  use the mouse to select all the components to do
  this click and hold the mouse, top left of the
  timer, then whilst holding mouse button down,
  drag the mouse to bottom right of timer and
  release everything within the region should be
  selected. You can now copy go into your
  presentation and paste.
• Timers can be resized, or formatted just make
  sure you highlight all of the items at the same
  time (by using same method as above).
• The timers are preset to start on the click of
  the mouse, this could be changed to start
  automatically on going to that slide, or on the
  click of a button. You would need to change the
  custom animation settings for this.
• There is a sound effect at the end of each timer
  this is the Laser sound effect within
  PowerPoint this could easily be removed or
  replaced with your own sound effect.

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5 Second Timer
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2 Minute Timer
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15 Minute Timer
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