MUSICAL POWERPOINTS, OR, HISTORY SET TO MUSIC

Often, the most dramatic way to bring a subject alive is to create a slideshow that is cued to music. Students really enjoy this. Time consuming for the student, but also a project they don’t usually forget. We play it before an audience.

HistoryTrac PowerPoint on "A Train near Magdeburg" SPECIFIC GUIDELINES-

you may work with one other person for this project. Follo w the instructions carefully.See me.

Tell the story of “A Train Near Magdeburg” using PowerPoint and U2’s “Walk On” from “All that You Can’t Leave Behind”. It’s actually a song about Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi (http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html) who graces the cover of your textbook, and it seems to work here.

Bring in a blank disk so I can put the song and other info on it for you.

Suggestions:

Use pictures from the website and the handouts, which I will place electronically on this website.

Handout 1-Synopsis

Handout 2- Lexie's Liberation

Lexie today

You may also use quotations from these handouts- its ok to cut and paste. Do not use more than 20 words a slide. You may not refer to Mr. Rozell directly in the slideshow, but the reunion has to be part of the story.

Listen to the song several times. Read the lyrics, posted below. Know the story well. Picture how you would start the show, and end the show. It’s a five minute song.

You should incorporate something about the Holocaust before the liberation part of the show. (The camp she was in was Bergen-Belsen.)

You may repeat slides to make it work.

You may want to view the PPT John Paul II as it also incorporates a U2 song. I’ll put it on the disc. I want you to keep it somewhat simple -as far as having words appear on screen in sync with the music, it is very difficult to pull off with split second accuracy from one computer to another.

Good luck! If you need help, or would like me to preview before handing in please see me after school.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS-HOW TO

You’ve found the song and the subject-What feelings or emotions do you want to convey?
Get your graphics/ text… build slides in PowerPoint.
Organize/sequence slides. Get the timing down.

INCORPORATE THE MUSIC

OPTION #2- PLAY FROM MUSIC FILE ON DATA CD

Insert data CD with your music file into D drive of computer . Get a blank CD and Mr. Rozell will burn it for you.

1. Insert song from data music file by clicking on “insert” from menu at top, then “Movies and Sounds”, then “Sound from File”, then click on the music file you want. When you are prompted to see if you want to have the file play automatically, click yes.

2. When the speaker sound icon appears in the middle of the slide, simply drag it off the slide to the side if you which not to see it during presentation. Right click on the icon, choose “custom animation”, then click “While playing: Continue slide show”.

3. Below that, you want to “Stop playing” after the # of slides in your show. Enter the number and click OK.

The music file must be in the “D” drive when PowerPoint starts. (In order to use just one CD for presentation, just copy music file onto the same CD with your slideshow before you burn the CD closed.) Load PowerPoint to desktop first…
Now to cue the slides to the music. Take Song length (in seconds) divided by slides- (in slide sorter view, right click on slide, then “slide transition”- “apply to all”)
In the PowerPoint Slide sorter view, right click on the slide you want to adjust timing on. In “slide transition”, adjust individual slide lengths until you get it right…do not click “apply to all”, just “apply”)
Do not forget credit slides, even if they just flash on screen, the viewer can always return to it…use http://citationmachine.net/.
SAVE YOUR WORK AFTER EVERY SLIDE. SAVE ENTIRE PROJECT TO MORE THAN ONE SOURCE AT CLOSE OF EACH WORK SESSION.

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring...
And love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can’t steal it
No they can’t even feel it
Walk on, walk on...
Stay safe tonight

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can’t sell it, can’t buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home… hard to know what it is if you’ve never had one
Home… I can’t say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you've seen...