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Create Your Own Game Board: With PowerPoint

When you think of board games, what comes to mind? Maybe old favorites like Clue® or Risk®, or the perennial favorite, Monopoly®? Have you thought about creating a board game to be used in a learning program? What if you could create that board game using PowerPoint? “Wait,” you might be saying, “PowerPoint has all those boring bullets and clip art.” Most people don’t know the true power of PowerPoint, and even fewer use all of its design functions. In this hands-on course, you will build four board games using new ways to change images, draw lines, use the Selection Panel and Format Panel, and export images that can be used in an authoring tool. You will be amazed at what PowerPoint can do to enliven your eLearning programs.

Instructor: Jeffrey Riley

Jeffrey Riley has over 30 years of experience in learning facilitation, design, and implementation in education, insurance, retail, and adult learning.

Proficient in eLearning authoring tools, web conferencing, basic computer software, and working remotely. Facilitated and led classes for novices and experienced personnel, train-the-trainer programs, and blended learning.

Created websites designed to promote self-learning for new hires and experienced learners. Started consulting to assist other businesses in their efforts to include eLearning and gamification as learning options for their employees.

Jeffrey is a certified Gamification Master Craftsman through Sententia.

First Game Board

This is the first game board, using an image and building a game board over it using PowerPoint shapes. All of the images used in the course are in the Game Board Toolkit. You can use a screen capture tool to copy the images and paste into your own PowerPoint Slides. The Resources at the end include links to learn how to use the PowerPoint Panels.

⏰ 15 minutes

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2nd Game Board Using Shapes

PowerPoint has many shapes that can easily be used to create a game board. Squares, rectangles, the 6-sided Sextagon, and others. The great part of this is you can also add numbers or instructions to the game board to emphasize how the game is played.

⏰ 12 minutes

Game Board Using The Scribble Tool

Many game boards are winding pathways through a scene. So, how can you create this pathway? How about making it three different colors and add numbers? This is what you will learn in this section.

⏰ 14 minutes

Editing an Existing Game Board

What can you do if you find this great-looking game board in a place like Freepik.com or Pixabay.com? PowerPoint lets you edit this image in any way you want by using shaping and coloring techniques again. Watch this example and then try it yourself, OR pick an image you like.

⏰ 12 minutes

3D Graphic Fun

PowerPoint allows you to use 3D Images. You can also add animation and links to other slides to make this an interactive game board without an authoring tool. Watch the demo and then try to build a 3D activity yourself.

⏰ 16 minutes

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