Power Point templates are a great source for us teachers as we can design activities which are suitable for our particular needs. I have designed "Jeopardy" ppts to review a grammar topic or as warm up to introduce a new one. Make them challenging enough, set clear rules and instructions before you start, make sure everyone knows what the mechanics is. The content depends on you. It is also possible, when you have a computer lab available, to have students design their own games using templates to later use them with the whole class.
I have found the following useful sites:
1. Through "filetype:pdf elt worksheets" I got to a very interesting site which offers a variety of worksheets: www.usingenglish.com/handouts
2. I tried "filetype: ppt interactive games templates" and I got several links at:
www.ittechno.com/links/powerpoint.html there I found a PowerPoint Tutorial 2007 (www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/ppt/index.asp) This is very useful in case you are not familiar with power point, and as my teacher says, "don't run until you've learned how to walk". It helps a lot to understand how to do things from scratch in order to personalize the already-made material available in the internet.
3. From the page we found in class for the "jeopardy game" (jc-schools.net/ppt.htm/)I clicked on "Game Resources", under "Templates" I found great stuff like: Classroom Game Templates & More (www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara leonard/) This link gives you a long list of possibilities. Also vickiblackwell.com/ppttemplates.html provides other interesting links like "Brainy Betty" which includes videos, fonts, sounds, etc.
I went back to the "Templates" list and clicked on "PowerPoint Templates" which provides another list and I picked "Internet4Classrooms" (internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm/games) there, under "Game Templates" I found "Battleship" and a "Baseball" templates, which are also doable.
I think I'd rather stop here--I found many more interesting links like factstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games, but it is a never ending story!! So far I'm happy, I found really great material.
One last thing that I don't want to forget tech1.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/templates.html "Homemade Power Point Games" has a couple of easy-to use templates.
Conclusion: The internet has an infinite number of sources and resources but it takes long hours to find the right thing. We should be very clear as to what our objectives are, and once we have something we can handle, it is better to use our time customizing it to fit our own targets.
Some of these links might not be available at this time, but start creating your own resources bank to have it available anytime. At the beginning you will need to invest time and work, but you will be able to reuse your materials with different classes, ot just make slight modifications.
I hope you enjoy the process!
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