Friday, February 22, 2008
Thing 3 - PowerPoint Reform
Some educators think that PowerPoint is passe', but I disagree - I think its uses need to be updated and that it should be used properly. I agree with the article about PowerPoint reform written by Joyce Valenze where she lists ways to update this communcation tool so that students will learn, listen, and share information. As a technology educator, I teach my students to use PowerPoint as a platform to combine and deliver several different visual/auditory elements that belong under the umbrella of multimedia. When the PowerPoint project is a stand alone project, the communication of the message is greatly enhanced when students think outside the box (as suggested by Joyce Valenze). When the PowerPoint is part of a student's presentation, communication is enhanced when students understand that their PowerPoints should not be the presentation, but rather should augment the presentation.
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I think you make an excellent point about the need to use PowerPoint as an enhancement to one's presentation and not the entire thing. This is difficult for me to teach the kids and sometimes hard to remember myself as well.
I totally agree also! Power Point is an aid to the presentation. It is not the presentation or the teaching of a given topic. Sometimes we fall in the habit of creating a power point and read out of it. Students should tell us:"We can read that ourselves" reminding us that we should be giving further examples or using it just as a visual to organize ideas.
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