PowerPoint and I are old friends!!!
If you saw my last post about Prezi you may have thought I had a new bestie. But really, I think for content delivery in particular I will remain loyal. Setting up slides is very easy and there are background themes that make your slides a little more interesting to look at. Text is entered in text boxes which is helpful when you are animating your slides. It allows you to keep each talking point separate. You can embed YouTube videos directly into your presentation to play automatically or when clicked.Thanks, to this weeks explorations I have seen that PowerPoint has adapted a few things to keep pace with all these new competitors. I learned that I could record a video of a presentation, record narration and sound on each slide and even present online.
Below I have embedded a presentation I used on my last prac. I didn't spend any time on getting the timing of the slides right but it illustrates the gist of the lesson. I do find that when I view the video it is a bit glitchy in the transitions which is not ideal.
One thing I really like about PowerPoint is that it helps to keep me on track! I always put reminders in for myself to check for learning throughout the lessons and to be explicit in my instructions. These are two areas that I feel are important for good pedagogy.
It is not limited to just typing words either. You can see that my presentation was not necessarily pretty (I had to throw it together in one sitting). But it was very focussed on the actual students in the class and allowed for key learning concepts to be illustrated with graphics, drawings and font differentiation.
Incidentally, the students upcoming assessment item was to create an infographic. They could pick a program of their choice and there are many to choose from. However, I created mine straight there in PowerPoint. What I liked about this lesson is that the kids were really engaged with it because it was about them. When I asked them what drew their eye in the infographic I had kids pointing out every little thing (with hands up and waiting their turns of course) just to get their turn to speak.
Was PowerPoint the hero that day? Probably not, but did it contribute? Yep!
Hi Bec,
ReplyDeleteI see you use YouTube to publish your PowerPoint, does it allow you to use the click for next slide function or does it run at the pre-set timing?
It does not allow any clicking on the video. It's more for if you had actually delivered the presentation and were speaking and pointing as you went. Thanks for asking. I hope I answered well enough!
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ReplyDeleteNothing like a bestie - rivalry - tri showdown!! ;)
ReplyDeleteSounds more like you were the hero of the day Bec.. haha. Good job! I'm slightly jelly that you've actually had some class time!!.. and can draw on these experiences I am just fabricating little ideas in my head at this stage.. Which are just unicorns and daisys weeeeee
Why did you choose to upload the PP to Youtube?
Were the students required to do any PP presentations? If so how were their levels of engagement in doing so?
I envisage the requirements of PP presentations as an assessment piece for the student would really allow for movement up the SAMR model.
Happy Blogging :)
*trio
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ReplyDeleteI really just uploaded it to YouTube to lean how to do it. Up until now I didn't even know you could make it into a video. You are right though, I approached this whole presentations sector largely from the view of me presenting to students rather than them presenting their knowledge and understanding back to me (sadly an opportunity missed!).
Having that class time has definitely allowed me to reflect on the content of this course and how to apply it to classroom settings. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did once you get the opportunity.
Thanks for your comments!