Power Point October 30, 2009

This past week, we started to learn about using Power Points’s in the classroom. As students, we are used to having linear Power Points presented to us by our teachers. We are not learning how to make linear Power Points because most of us can already do that. We are learning how to make a non- linear Power Point’s. I found this very interesting. One example that we were shown in class was the use of Jeopardy to review content material. When I was in grade school, we used to play Jeopardy but never on a Powerpoint. We would play it on the blackboard with chalk. In this case, Power Point would have been very handy because playing Jeopardy on the blackboard was very time-consuming. My point is that Power Point can be a very useful tool when used in the right way. I am glad that it is one of the programs that we will be learning how to use more effectively in this course. Otherwise, I would not use Power Point in my classroom because I am not going to put on linear presentations for elementary students. I do not want you to think Jeopardy is the only way to use it either, there are many effective ways to use Power Point using non linear ideas. It will be exciting and interesting to do our group project on Power Point to investigate the pros and cons of working with Power Point because right now it seems great but we might get frustrated once we start our project. Does anyone have any suggestions that might make my construction of a non linear Power Point a little smoother?

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