Engagement Activity tool 3-1 PowerPoint
I have always been a basic user of PowerPoint
during my previous study or work experience. After the three tutorial materials
it is an eye opener for how much power point can do. It is really a magic tool.
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For presentation support, there
is no doubt it is a great tool to hold the learning materials, or the key
learning point for the class by highlighting them, or add emphasis animation on
that slide. It is easy to capture different types of learners in the classroom.
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What I learned today is the
quiz tool, present the question on the page and followed by the answers next
page, that gives the students sometimes to think and then there the next page
the answers are there, and I maybe able to ask students if I have missed
anything other answers and add their thinking to the slide, which is a great
way to engage the learners.
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Since the tool allows many kind
of media to be added to it, it can make the learning material very interesting, hence it will help students to understand different dimension of the knowledge.
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PowerPoint can be used for homework
or projects, a group of students can come up with their own PowerPoint to
present their findings or study results. It is depends on the students how much
functions they want to use, or they can stick to the basic, which is very
flexible. The end result can be captured for assessment record.
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Another way of using the sound
and text combination is for second language learning, I can type the Chinese characters
and place the sound button beside it, so students can learn by listen to the
sound from the PowerPoint slide, and they can access it outside of school as
well.
The function of save word document to a PowerPoint
slide is great too; I have not seen it before now it is a new skill learned. However,
I don’t really agree with using moving the picture in PowerPoint to create
movies. There are better products out there for movie maker, especially I am
going to teach secondary, and the animation needs to be a lot more mature for
the senior audiences. I think PowerPoint may have the function to support that,
but it is more time consuming to use it for movie maker instead just use a
movie maker tool directly.
Overall, I can see myself using PowerPoint
for my math and business or most definitely for Chinese language classes, it is
a great ICT tool for presentation/quiz/tasks inside or outside classroom.
I have created a very basic PowerPoint, but I have not figure out how to link to Blog yet, will see how it goes, any one have any ideas of how to link a PowerPoint to blog?
I found the answer to this one, I uploaded the PPT to wiki, so here it is Easter Holiday Plan ppt
here is also the slideshare version
Power point
Strength
Multimedia: including text, image, sound,
video, basic animation.
Easy to fit in to class tasks
Presentation support
Cover variance
kind of learners, Visual/Auditory/Kinesthic
Flexible with skill level
Weakness
Time consuming for preparation
Relying on the availability of the classroom
facility
Can be teacher focused
Prepared material may not engage students
Opportunity
Mouse Mischief, support constructivism in
classroom learning
Powerpoint project for groups
Record of students’ work for assessment
purpose
Threat
Lose data if not backed up properly
Power out
Information over load
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