Week 9
Spring Break
Educational Applications
of PowerPoint (Completion
of this project is optional)
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.
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
-
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: 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 ;-)
Thanks for working very hard!!! Have a nice Spring
Break :-)