Week 7 Mar. 6
Educational
Applications
of PowerPoint
To do today
1. Rational and Ideas for Use of PowerPoint in classrooms
We have all seen some ppt presentations. What are
some of the bad things about the PowerPoint presentations you¡¯ve seen?
What are some of the good things that impressed you?
1.1 Bad use of PowerPoint Presentations
List 5 things
that could make a presentation really bad. You can explore the following
links (in a group of 4) to help you with your group list.
Now let's have some fun: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly - funny and original articles about the bad use of power
point.
1.2 Thoughtful use of PowerPooint Presentations in
elemenary classroom
However, ppt is still one of the most popular
software that can create interactive presentations containing
text, art, animation, and audio and video elements to enhance students
learning, esp.for elementary kids. Work in groups, create 1-3 ideas
that you can use ppt in your classroom teaching - explain in
what ways the powerpoint project/activities you have just designed
will enhance/faciliate elementary school kid's learning?
2.
Tackle
the Technical Part: expectations
on technical skills
Minimum requirements:
Additional skills:
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Assign Slide Transitions
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Insert Sounds
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Insert Movies
PowerPoint
Pointers: a step-by-step manual in PDF
3.
Understand your PowerPoint Project: Project #4 Applying your powerpoint
technical skills
Ideally, your PowerPoint project content ideas
should be integrated with your other course projects.
For instance, your social studies course project or your science
course project. For example, you can combine your Project #4
with one
of your social
studies projects. You might also come up with innovative ideas
after spending time on the PowerPoint resources below.
Link
to Project #4: Educational Applications of
PowerPoint
Due
date:
Friday of Week 8, March 17th
4. Going future: Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Templates
You can use these resources to hone
your PowerPoint skills and make a fabulous PowerPoint project for
this EDU 314 Course. More importantly, you can use these resources
for your future classroom teaching. (Warning: don't get drowned by
the info ;-)
5. Q & A
Homework
Start Reading Assignment No.3.
Read the ISTE NETS Standards for
teachers and Standards for
students. Prepare the writing
of the reflections.
For Next Week
Have
a wonderful Spring Break!