{"id":111,"date":"2008-09-08T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/111"},"modified":"2008-09-08T16:43:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:43:48","slug":"automatic-powerpoint-presentations-from-your-vocab-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/111","title":{"rendered":"Automatic PowerPoint presentations from your vocab list!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new export option for <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.k12opened.com\/index.php?p=experimentalpage\" target=\"_blank\">glossaries in the open dictionary<\/a> &#8212; <strong>PowerPoint presentations<\/strong>. To use this, just build a glossary and select the PPT option when you build. (If you just want to try this out, you can test it with one of the sample glossaries.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really excited about this, because I think the classroom applications are huge. Have kids create a PowerPoint for their vocabulary lists and add pictures. Add pronunciations. Output it to jpgs and make a movie. Put the PowerPoints on the web, handhelds, or iPods and use them to differentiate instruction. All of these ideas fit well into research on vocabulary instruction and are also <strong>manageable<\/strong> and <strong>not time consuming<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(For those more advanced or with ample time on your hands, you can use the wikitext export option and build a vocab wiki.:)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biomes_ppt.jpg\" title=\"biomes_ppt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/biomes_ppt.jpg\" alt=\"biomes_ppt.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(We&#8217;re still working on getting this to open automatically in Open Office. Stay tuned.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new export option for glossaries in the open dictionary &#8212; PowerPoint presentations. To use this, just build a glossary and select the PPT option when you build. (If you just want to try this out, you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}