Jeopardy

This assignment was wonderful. I have a great deal of experience with Microsoft Office applications, but I had no idea that you could create a Jeopardy game that was so easy to use. I was excited to create the game using the information we are covering in out BCA I class during my clinical observation. The students are finishing up their first chapter in Excel and have previously covered Word. I decided to cover areas that they have learned thoughout the year which also included basic keyboarding. I can't wait to give this to my cooperating teacher and see if maybe we can find a way for the students to actually play the game. The only problem will be that there is no way for project the game onto a larger screen so that all students can see it. Perhaps we can split into teams and have the student take rounds where only one student on each team can answer a question. This way there would be at least a little control over the commotion that I'm sure would result from 20 students trying to play at the same time, even if they were split into teams.

As far as the actual process of creating the Jeopardy game. I have quite a bit of difficulty at the begining, but that was completely a result of my failing computer and my own stupid fault of not saving the work I had done. Finally, on the third try I was smart enough to save my work periodically. I find this a bit ironic seeing as how we repeatedly tell the students in class to save their work so they do not risk losing it should something happen to the computer or program.

Once I finally got working the process was quite easy. I did have a problem with two links where it would not go to the appropriate page, even after fixing the link several times. I finally deleted the entire link and started over with a new one. Changing the action button to a mouse over instead of a mouse click was simple, but cutting and pasting it onto each slide was tedious. If I were to be creating this type of powerpoint from scratch I would choose to copy and paste the entire slide to save time.

The only time I encountered a irritating problem when with trying to get it to connect to my blog. I saved the powerpoint as both a .ppt (power point) and a .pps (power point show). Saving it as a show is supposed to cause the powerpoint to open in the slideshow view so that the user does not see the individual slides or the formatting part of the program. When I open the file from 'my documents' or even directly from my ftp folder it works fine, but when I connect a link in my blog to the ftp file it opens in the program rather than the slide show. I don't understand what is going wrong. The file itself is a slide show, but it is not opening that way. It still works fine this way, but I would prefer to have it open directly into a slide show rather than open the program.

BCA I Jeopardy Game