Above is an example of a PowerPoint presentation created my group and I in a course last year....I have been exposed to Powerpoint for years now. Having done the business subjects throughout highschool, I was taught to became a so called 'expert' with this particular tool. I loved learning the basic steps, then exploring what else could be done to further enhance my presentation.
Engaging with PowerPoint once more in this course reminded me of how much I enjoyed the engaging with this tool when I was a student, which leads me to believe that it is such a powerful digital learning device to be utilised in the classroom...
PowerPoint can be used in the classroom in the following ways:
- In an introductory lesson as the 'hook' to engage the students in information about a new topic.
- Having recently completed an assignment in SOSE, I used a powerpoint presentation as the hook for my first learning experience. The powerpoint was just images and music, there was no text. I then encouraged the learnings to say how they felt viewing these images - it was emotive.
- Can be used as an assessment tool in which the students create their own powerpoint presentations and present them to their peers. This will allow the students to experience, first hand, the purpose of PowerPoint and why it is used to stimulate its audience.
- To inform students of a set of instructions for a certain activity, homework tasks etc
Below is my PMI chart that outlines the effectiveness of PowerPoints in the classroom:
Hi Hannah,
ReplyDeleteGreat points about how powerpoint can be used in the classroom. I agree that is a great ICT tool that can be used to engage the students.I definately can see what you mean by how it can be a distraction with colours, images,animations as when I doing the tutorial activities I wasted alot of time playing around. This will be a challenge in our future classrooms to overcome.