The use of animation as a teaching tool has long been of interest to the readers of and contributors to this journal.1–5 While the sophisticated techniques presented in the cited papers are excellent and useful, there is one overlooked technique that may be of interest to the teacher who wants something quick and simple to enhance classroom presentations: PowerPoint animation.
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