It can be used to randomize any presentation that you already have. In addition to randomizing, you can create initial steps for the Glen Doman Dot Method for teaching math.
Download Matt Hudson’s randomizer
Tip: to randomize your file, you have to have even number of slides. So, if you download the slides with a title page (i.e. odd number of slides), you can delete the slide with the title (the baby doesn’t need it anyway! I like titles only because they make the printed out version of the book look nicer). I actually prefer to insert a new page (go to Insert=>New Slide; or use the shortcut: Ctrl-M) and to write the title of this presentation in large, clear, red letters, without distracting pictures. Just as another word, that baby can learn!
Some of us experienced trouble adding this plugin into some versions of PowerPoint. Solution turned out to be really easy: just follow the directions below!
1. Go to Tools => Options => Security => click on a button that says “Macro Security”
2. Select “Medium” security option.
3. press “OK”
Now add the macro:
1. Unzip the files to C:/Doman
2. Tools => Add ins => Add New=> select the file from C:/Doman
3. A message will appear that says something like “this file contains macros. Do you want enable or disable them?”. Click “ENABLE”.
4. macro will appear in the list, so just make sure it has a checkbox next to it and click ok.
5. close PowerPoint and open it again.
Enjoy! Let me know if you need more directions; I can make some screenshots and post it.
Randomizer built into a presentations
If you would like to create your own presentations that already have randomizer built into them, then you would find the templates created by “palmchristy” very and very useful. By using “Slide Show” “Custom Slide Show”, you can select any of the three random slide show methods below, each with 5 different sequence:
– Both Word and Picture
– Word only
– Picture only
This template has the “palmchristy” randomizing table at the beginning and allows you to choose 30 different sequences (10 days x 3 sessions) but has been modified by me to allow bilingual powerpoints (word 1st language, word 2nd language, image etc.).
You put the describing words on the slides 1,4,7,10 etc. in the first language and also in the second language on slides 2,5,8,11 etc. (slides 3,6,9,12 are for the image) and then you can choose from the randomizing table (10 days with 3 different sessions each) at the beginning if you want to run the slide show in 1st language or 2nd. language.
I use it for German & Spanish (and later on will introduce English as well) but I make sure that between showing the powerpoint in German and than in Spanish is a time difference of at least 2 weeks (but that´s my personal opinon).
