The Use of Powerpoint Shareware for Making Jeopardy!-Type Games in the Teaching of Psychology

Abstract

We describe the use of readily available templates to create a Jeopardy!-type game using PowerPoint slides suitable for psychology courses. The templates can accommodate information from any psychology class and can easily be used to incorporate languages other than English. A major limitation of the templates is that they are only available as shareware on internet sites and the links to such sites can be unreliable. To avoid this problem we present our own template. Differences between the shareware and our own program are noted, as are ways to use the game to stimulate interest in psychology.