PowerPoint PMI

PowerPoint is a great presentation tool that I have used continually throughout my whole schooling. I have used it for assignments across a wide range of KLA areas. This allows me, as a future teacher, to be comfortable with using this in my classroom. However, I would not continually use this to teach my students. Instead, I would teach my students how to use it so that they can use it when presenting. It will make their presentation more engaging, allow them to use it instead of palm cards (use powerpoint slides as notes), and they can create the powerpoint to suit the presentation.

Ways to use PowerPoint in the classroom:

• presenting assignment/task
• animations
• note taking
• a varitey of KLA's

Below is a PMI of the positives and negatives of working with PowerPoint.
Plus-

• can be used as a presentation tool
• easy to use for a simple presentation
• add different effects eg. motion pictures, motion texts
• add colours to text
• change the type of background
• add videos, images
• upload to online sites such as wiki
• a way to engage students
• can be used as an animation tool
• Can easily input images
• Templates are built in for different appearances
• Can add notes pages
• Can easily add media and recordings
• More exciting than a simple word document or hand written presentation
• Master slides make presentations consistent

Minus-

• Some features such as animations and backgrounds can distract the audience from the actual information in the presentation
• File size can become quite large on medium to large presentations
• Some of the features can be quite complicated to use and even the simple features require some getting used to
• When at created at home, you cant rely on someone else's computer or laptop to run your presentation, there are too many software conflicts and disk space barriers.
• Takes quite a bit of time to create a complete presentation

Interesting-

• Continually updated

To view a powerpoint created previously for a different course (Ensuring Student Success) visit my wiki : http://shonaselearning.wikispaces.com/PowerPoint+

How to create a powerpoint presentation: retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TP62aNlVu0 on the 12/08/12, created by DemoTrainer, 2008.