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If you are a student or a teacher there is no doubt that you have either heard or used PowerPoint in your life. Using PowerPoint in the classroom is a great way to have students interact with their project and go beyond the textbook. No matter what grade you are in PowerPoint is a tool that you can use to your benefit. For example, you are assigned a project on whales. By using PowerPoint you will be able to use pictures, videos, audio and animations in your slides. When you are presenting your PowerPoint on whales you have a lot of information and can get your audience’s attention. This is because they are not listening to you just talk the whole time, your audience can have visuals and follow along with what you are saying.

 

I found alphabet books to be a wonderful way for students to easily learn their alphabets. An alphabet book is pretty self explanatory. It is a book the child learning the alphabet makes, the letter A for example would be a picture of an apple with the lower and upper case A. There will also be a sentence added “A is for Apple”. When I am a kindergarten teacher I will incorporate alphabet books into my lessons. The child made the book with pretty pictures and their own sentences so they want to read it over and over. They will also want to show every adult they run into, that gives them even more practice.

 

I was surprised to read about the benefits of using a camera with students. I was surprised by this because I always assumed that that was something to avoid. When I was in high school I helped out with the ESE students and they were very strict on no cameras. I know that you have to have parent consent to have any pictures of a child taken.  Cameras can be useful in the classroom. One of the reasons is, if you are doing a science experiment or anything that will take a week or longer to complete, you can take pictures and show the students how the experiment has progressed daily.

In conclusion, PowerPoint is a great way to be more engaged with a project and presenting can be less stressful. There is a similar version of PowerPoint now called Prezi. It works the same yet I think Prezi is a little more appealing to the eye because it is different. Alphabet books are a great way to express the creativity of a young mind. Cameras can be useful when doing a long experiment, and to see the progress that students make.

 

References:

 Document Camera. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2015, from http://www.edtechnetwork.com/document_cameras.html

How to Create Profesional Powerpoint Presentation slides | Best Powerpoint Tips. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf_gutmvjo

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

McBride, M. (n.d.). Alphabet Book. Retrieved October 25, 2015, from http://www.zooburst.com/zb_books-viewer.php?book=zb01_562c49182ac4a