PowerPoint- Leah Mondadori

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• Leah Mondadori
• Computers in the Curriculum
• GE-555-01

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What Is PowerPoint?

• PowerPoint is a presentation program created by
  Microsoft Office.
• It runs on Microsoft Windows and Apples Mac OS X
  operating system.
• It uses a graphical approach to presentations in
  the form of slide shows that accompany the oral
  delivery of the topic.
• The current versions are Microsoft PowerPoint
  2010 for Windows and 2011 for Mac. (wikipedia -
  PowerPoint)

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Why USE PowerPoint?

• Easily assessable! Easy to navigate!
• PowerPoint makes content available to a multitude
  of learners.
• It allows all users to use their own creative
  minds to individuality to create a presentation.
• Create interactive presentations containing text,
  art, animation, and audio and video elements. It
  is the best-known presentation graphics program
  available.
• Has a variety of different templates.

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How to use It
3. In the right hand corner, is where the editing
is located.
4. F5 allows you to view the presentation as a
slideshow
2. The Slides are stored on the left hand side.
You can duplicate slides, or create them from a
blank slate.

1. When PowerPoint is opened, you create a Title and
   a Subtitle.

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Advantages in using PowerPoint

• PowerPoint is an easily accessed material that
  can be used in schools and at home. It gives
  teachers and students the opportunity to provide
  information in a variety of ways to better meet
  the diverse learning styles.
• Many educators have found that the use of
  technology in the classroom has changed the
  interest level of many students simply due to the
  fact that they are using technology themselves
  for personal reasons and are more interested in
  material presented through this familiar medium.

• Meet the needs of more students with varying
  learning styles and aptitudes.
• Provide make up lectures to students who were
  absent.
• Supplement existing material and resources with a
  portable and remotely accessible source of
  information.
• Hearing impaired students can benefits by typing
  their information and have it spoken for them.

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How to use Example!
http//www.screentoaster.com/watch/stV0hdQUFIR1xaQ
VxdW1NeUFdc/powerpoint_demo
Click the link above to watch a quick,
informative video on how to use PowerPoint.
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Educational Value and use For Teachers and
Students

• PowerPoint allows students to use their
  technology-based entertainment for educational
  experiences. Microsoft PowerPoint is available
  as an Icon on my Blackberry Tour. I am able to
  open and view PowerPoints that are sent in a
  location that a wireless internet may not be
  reached in.

• For example, PowerPoint allows lectures or other
  course content to be made available to students
  if they miss class. Beyond missed lectures,
  podcasting can provide access to experts through
  interviews.
• PowerPoint is not limited to content delivered to
  the student, however students can create their
  own PowerPointsas a record of activities, a way
  to collect notes, or a reflection on what they
  have learned.
• PowerPoint allows education to become more
  portable than ever before. PowerPoint cannot
  replace the classroom, but it provides educators
  one more way to meet todays students where they
  liveon the Internet and sharing their
  information on the internet.

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Educational Value of PowerPoint

• Allows u to work at your own paces and develop
  the presentation any way that u want. For
  example, I like to label and lay out my slides
  and organize it before I put my information in.
  some people can complete slides as they go on.

• Provides its own tutorial.
• Easy to input videos, pictures.
• You can save your presentation as an HTML and
  share it.
• Ability to access and review information at own
  desire and helps to embed lessons in memory.
• Has Slides not pages, students are not
  overwhelmed by creating a 10 page factual paper.

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Student Use

• PowerPoint can be used for students to create
  presentations based on information they have
  learned. It is a flexible program that encourages
  student participation and facilitates success.
  Other examples
• Diagrams
• Charts
• Pictures
• Informative lectures

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• Users must have current Microsoft downloaded,
  occasionally programs may not be compatible with
  the newest software.
• Students may take creativeness to a different
  level and use fonts that are hard to read, colors
  that make the writing hard to see, and colors
  that do not blend. Too much creativeness can
  actually be bad!
• Some backgrounds may be distracting!

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Tutorials

• Below is a link to a tutorial sites that describe
  the process of creating your own PowerPoint.
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tutorials/ew_
  ppt.htm
• This website provides step by step information on
  creating a great PowerPoint. http//www.actden.com
  /pp/

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PRINTING
An aspect of PowerPoint that I find very useful
is having the ability to print the slides in
Handout format. Print gives the option of
printing 1 to 9 slides per page which also helps
to be economically friendly! Being able to print
your PowerPoint on minimal sheets of paper makes
it easy for classmates to store. It is nice to
be able to keep the documents we are currently
learning about because you never know when it may
come in handy during your teaching experience.
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In Conclusion

• When given this assignment, I began looking up
  different aspects of technology that I was
  familiar with and came up with a few ideas that I
  wanted to use. However, when it came down to it,
  from elementary education to secondary to
  undergraduate to this Masters program, the only
  aspect of Educational Technology that I had
  repeatedly used and been exposed to is the use of
  PowerPoint. I have been asked to create many
  different PowerPoint presentations displaying
  that knowledge that I have acquired. It is the
  easiest and most organized way to create a
  presentation.

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References

• PowerPoint. Wikipedia.com. Retrieved from
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPoint
• Education World PowerPoint- Creating Classroom
  Presentations. Retrieved from
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech013.
  shtml
• Google Images. Retrieved from
• http//www.google.com/imghp?hlentabwi
• PowerPoint Demo. Retrieved from
• http//www.screentoaster.com/watch/stV0hdQUFIR1xaQ
  VxdW1NeUFdc/powerpoint_demo