Website update 21/8/2021
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An unexpected update based on a retweet I saw this morning:
This set of retrieval practice templates can be adapted for any subject. I think they would be great for Computer Science, Business, Media and iMedia https://t.co/e84aXnz2hu
— William Lau (@MrLauLearning) August 20, 2021
Some really great retrieval ideas for starter activities or Do Now activities. I thought that the templates were a really great idea which got me thinking if there could be a way to randomise and auto produce some of the content for these slides based upon what I have already.
My initial enquiries brought me to this plugin here (https://gitbrent.github.io/PptxGenJS/) which converts anything based within a HTML table into a PowerPoint Document. Experimenting with this I realised fairly soon that it wasn’t going to create a full blown template like the ones provided by Miss Hudson but it could be used to produce a fairly generic output and then pop this into PowerPoint for further styling.
I liked the idea of the Keyword retrieval and since I already had most of the content decided to concentrate on this.
After a bit of a fight and some changes along the way I managed to produce the full OCR J277 keyword specification.
In the actual pages themselves, instructions are produced for the task (like you would create for the top of your PowerPoint and then a Table of Keywords / descriptions are produced underneath.
The whole thing can be exported by clicking on the Export to PPTX button. Teachers can also Hide the Keywords before pressing the button so that they can produce the student slide without the keywords on it.
As I say, the plugin is fairly limited, but it does manage to output a PowerPoint slide which can be styled a bit more once in PowerPoint.
This should be considered a first draft and there is plenty that can be improved upon like mixing and matching keywords between topics of the persons choosing or perhaps trying to automate other retrieval questions into the mix (something that I have been thinking about for a long time and is on the To Do list). I also need to look through and add keywords for some topics and look at the definitions on some as well.
Overall – not a bad implementation to say I didn’t know that this is what I would be doing this morning!
Have a go and please let me know what you think. https://computerscienced.co.uk/site/keyword-starters-do-now-tasks/
Thanks for your support!