Attaching Sound and Video Files to Action Button

For this activity you will create a slide about poison dart frogs. Open a new PowerPoint presentation and create two slides. The first slide should contain the title "Poison Dart Frogs" with the subtitle your name. The second slide should include the graphic below:

Draw out three action button. Format them to your liking and place the text on them as shown below:

First Button:You will now create your own voice narriation using a microphone. It will save in wav format. Attach microphone to your computer.

Open the record sound dialogue box (start>Programs>Accessories>Entertainment>Sound recorder)

Click the red record button
Record the sound ("Poison Dart Frog").
Click on the stop button and playback the recording. If it is to your liking, save it to a folder.
- File>Save as>and assign it a name (ex: frog)

Poison Dart Frog Recorded Wav Example File Provided by my friend Gina

Select the button you want to attach the sound to (Sound Name).
Open the action settings dialog box by right clicking on button and selecting action setting.
Click the play sound radio button and select other sound.

Navigate to your recorded sound and select it.
Click OK to close the Action Setting dialog box.
Run the slide show and check out your sound by clicking on the button.

Second Button: Attach another sound file from the internet by right clicking the file name and saving it to your folder. Attach the file the same as you did above. The file you will use for this activity is listed below. It is the actual wav file of a poison dart frog.

Poison Dart Frog Wav File

Third Button: The last button will include an avi movie of a poison dart frog. There are many sites on the internet that offer free avi movies. I would suggest you check out unitestreaming.com. United Streaming is a video data base provided by Discovery Education. It has an abundance of educational movies for teachers and is available to Palm Beach County Schools at this time. If you are not familiar with this service check with you curriculum coordinator and find out how to get your school enrolled. If this is not an option for your school, then try the free 30 day trial. When you find the file you want to use download it by right clicking the d button on that particular video and saving it to your folder. To save it right click, select save target as, then save. Feel free to rename your file before clicking the save button.

To insert this movie on your file, click insert on the standard toolbar, select movie and sounds, then movie from file. Select the movie you just downloaded and when prompted if you want the movie to automatically play, click Yes.

Inserting a midi file: Download the midi file below or find one more to your liking. To find free midi files on the Internet, go to a major search engine and type free midi files. The midi file I used with my presentation is provided below. Feel free to use this file or find one of your own. To save my file or one you found online, right click the link, save target as, then save it to your folder.

Forest Midi File