I am often asked how can you make PowerPoint interactive when presenting to a large audience of students. My standard answer is either don’t use PowerPoint for the whole session, or if you absolutely have to, then set the students a question, challenge, exercise etc either to do individually, in pairs or larger groups. If doing this, then there could be a desire to set a time limit, in which case a countdown timer could have a use. I have produced a PowerPoint file containing different timers for different lengths of time (5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 2 minutes) - all somebody would need to do, is copy the timer out of my presentation and into their own - the first slide of the presentation contains some notes (more text than I normally put into an entire presentation) to help with this process.
Feel free to use as you wish - if you do use it, maybe postig a comment back about how you have used it, or any other types of timer you would find useful.
Countdown Timers in PowerPoint
This was created in PowerPoint 2003, testing it in office 98, some of them work, some don’t, I don’t know about other versions of PowerPoint due to not having them.
