Week 5 - PowerPoint

I decided to use a PowerPoint that I have already created and share it with slideshare. A very easy place to share your PowerPoints and very easy to embed onto a blog as the code came up almost automatically after clicking on the save and continue button. There are many technical aspects to a PowerPoint that I did not know about. After reading through the reading materials and watching the engagement activity video I can now see how PowerPoint can be used in much more than just presenting. You can create various slides with images, sound and video that can be very simple and child friendly. One of the great aspects of a PowerPoint is after all of the slides have been created it can be turned into a movie which the children would find fascinating. To think that they could make their own movie! I would use the PowerPoint in the classroom as a flip chart. Whether there are images with questions and the children need to drag and drop the correct icon in a box, or move a certain image into the correct place. It could be used individually or as a whole class warm-up. Creating a PowerPoint is not very time consuming and can be handy to have as activities for the children that have finished their work early or for the students that have deserved some computer time and possibly to help the students that need more time in a certain area.