Presentations
The presentations are not timed in any way, and you can move through them at your own pace. You can then cause each animation in the slide show to take place in turn by striking the keyboard’s space-bar or clicking the mouse-button, or using the “page up” and “page down” arrows or buttons to move forward and backward in the presentation. Sometimes, more than one click will be required, but be patient. Once the presentation is downloaded, the speed of the animations is a function of your computer’s processor, not the Web server or the Internet connections. These clicks also take the user from slide to slide. The last click on the last slide will cause the presentation to end automatically.Some sounds are embedded in the presentation, coordinated (in theory, anyway) with the moving graphics. If you are in a lab situation, you might want to mute your computer or wear headphones so that the sound of a clanking typewriter and the zapping laser displays do not irritate your neighbors. If your computer does not have a sound card, the presentation should work fine without sound.When you move the mouse cursor across the slide, an icon will appear in the lower left-hand corner of the window. Clicking that icon reveals a dialog box which allows you another means of moving forward and backward in the presentation (or ending it altogether) and selecting which slide you wish to view. You can also select a colored “pen” that allows you to make marks on the slide. This is especially useful for instructors who wish to highlight certain elements on the slide presentation. You can leave the pen “selected” as you move from slide to slide using the space-bar.
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