POWERPOINT
Powerpoint is a fantastic digital tool and one of the most popular. It's great for showing presentations in front of an audience. You can add sounds, animations, pictures and text to relay a message or information. Powerpoint is a commonly used program so to learn the ropes of how to use it is important! Coming into University I thought I would be getting away from them but it's quite the opposite! Using powerpoint for years on end can be a challenging process. I thought I was ready for something new, until I realised how much I needed powerpoint for university. Lecturers put up an abundance of powerpoints onto the university website to provide us with new information, or information we have learnt in class but can't remember! The great thing about this is that I can download the powerpoints while I'm at uni and utilise them at home. This is awesome since I'm a poor uni student and can't afford broadband at home, let alone food and rent! Also, I must say, it is really good only having to read dot points and summaries of information we need to know. I don't know how I would finish university if I had to read textbooks front to back. Powerpoint is very easy to use which means creating slides isn't time consuming. Powerpoint is ideal for all ages, even primary and early childhood. The program is easy to access and every school would have it. So all in all, as much as I hate it, I've gotta love it.
PowerPoint can be so easy to make with just the slides as you say. I agree that a uni we are bombarded with Powerpoints, however there is more to powerpoint than just a simple slide presentation. For a past assignment I created an interactive powerpoint where I added hyperlinks to slides and the internet. It turned out great although was very time consuming. That is one downside, if you get students to use powerpoint you will have to monitor how much time they spend on it. As an engaging activity you can use Powerpoint to create a quiz by hyperlinking the slides. If you look on my blog there is an example of how a simple activity can be used in the classroom to revise or practice content being taught in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI think PP is more beneficial to Learning Managers than to students. It's a different way to transfer information. Also, when students get to making a presentation they spend majority of the time playing with animations and changing colours, not giving enough attention to the content of the PP or what message they are trying to send. As a result, this hinders their learning abilities.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the students playing around with the presentation however, I would make sure that they would have it written in word first and then allow them to transfer it to powerpoint. This will allow the teacher to see the students work finished in word before allowing them to transfer it in PowerPoint. Maybe you could have some time allocated for students to desingn and play around with the options Powerpoint has to offer.
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