Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Promethean: Transparency Slider

The reason I love using ActivInspire software is because there are SO many little tricks to make a lesson fun and interactive. One of these tricks is the transparency slider.

The transparency slider lets you take an opaque image and make it transparent. This allows you to reveal things hidden underneath the opaque image. This is neat for showing pictures of changes over time, which is what I have mostly used it for. You could also use it to reveal answers.

To use the transparency slider:
1. Choose your images.
2. Layer the images one on top of the other. (For this one, I layered pictures of places before Hurricane Irene and put pictures of the aftermath on top.) Make sure to make the pictures the same size.
3. Click on the picture and the tools will appear at the top.
4. The Transparency Slider looks like a sun. Tap and hold it, a bar will appear. You can drag the slider back and forth on the line. Your top image will become transparent and reveal the image beneath it.

Transparency Slider:

As you drag, you can see the top picture disappearing and the new picture appearing:


New picture:


Another example:

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