Week 8 October 17th & 19th
Educational Applications of PowerPoint

To do this week

1. Rationale 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.

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation PowerPoint: shot with its own bullets The Making of the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation

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?

PowerPoint -- Creating Classroom Presentations Ideas for Using PowerPoint in a Classroom Western Washington University PowerPoint for the Classroom

2. Tackle the Technical Part: expectations on technical skills

Minimum requirements:

• Make a new slide

• Add additional slides

• Apply a design template

• Apply a text layout

• Insert digital images

• Make hyperlinks

• Slide show: Normal view, Sorter View, and Slide Show

• Print Your Slide Show

Additional skills:

• Assign Slide Transitions

• Insert Sounds

• 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: Week 9, Oct. 24

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 ;-)

• PowerPoint Resources

• Creating a class presentation

• A whole set of lessons on Animation Effects by Microsoft Office

• A whole set of lessons on Animation Timing by Microsoft Office

• Demo: Brighter online templates make you look smart in PowerPoint

• Narrating PowerPoint Slide Shows

• PowerPoint Tips & Tricks

• More Tips and Tricks

• Expert Tutorials and Techniques (click on any topic for more info)

• PowerPoint Tips by Ellen Finkelstein

• PowerPoint in the Classroom

• PowerPoint Templates for Business and School

• Condron, Frances. "Using PowerPoint in Teaching." Online tutorial for creating presentations. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/reports/ppt.xml

• Jones, Dianne et al. "A Parade of Games in PowerPoint." http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/. A collection of game examples and downloadable PowerPoint templates.

• PowerPoint In The Classroom
  This informational tutorial provides easy-to-read, graphically clear information about PowerPoint functions.

5. Q & A

Homework

Continue to read Reading Assignment No.2. - the ISTE NETS Standards for teachers and Standards for students. Prepare the writing of the reflections.

For Next Week

Preview and prepare for Week 9