Slide animations can be a great way to share your learning, whether is be retelling a story, creating your own storyline or explaining the forces at work from a science perspective. Here are some suggestions about how to create a really effective slide animation:
- When bringing objects forward on the screen, make them slightly bigger each time, and when moving objects backward on the screen, make them slightly smaller each time. This will help to create perspective.
- Make lots of small movements. This will invlolve you making a lot more slides, but the result will be a much smoother animation.
- Where possible, create your own backgrounds and characters. This will make your animation truely unique, and gives you the ability to create scenes that fit your design plan exactly.
- Increase the speed at which the slides play when you embed your slide animation. To do this, you will need to adjust the embed code.
Here’s how: Open your slide animation, click file, share, publish to the web. Select the embed tab, set size to small, play at every second and check the start slideshow option and hit publish. Copy the embed code and return to your blog post. Click on the text tab within your post and paste the embed code here. It will look something like this: <iframe src=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTzIRrLrywfq-mp9s1mL3lca_-NThsM1Ol4kaE7fVeVAVCkkK-ww5mRQPzTBiGzyO8v5nOAGarSGgGD/embed?start=true&loop=true&delayms=1000” frameborder=”0″ width=”480″ height=”299″ allowfullscreen=”true” mozallowfullscreen=”true” webkitallowfullscreen=”true”></iframe>
Change the number 1000 (which means that slides will play at one slide per second), to 300 (which will show around 3 slides per second) or even faster if you prefer. The slide animation below is set to 100 (10 slides per second).