Week 3 Digital Tool 5 Powerpoints

How fantastic are powerpoints!  There applications in teaching could be limitless because of their adaptability, flexibility and level of learning through creativity.  Imagine a science SOSE lesson on space done through the incorporation of powerpoint. The visual and audio inclusions would make for a fantastic and education lesson.  Instead of listen to a teacher talk about the suns solar flares or seeing the pictures in a book video could be incorporated into the presentation.  Think of an assignment presented as a powerpoint with colour, visual and audio inclusion by a student as opposed to a cardboard poster and how this presentation would impact not only that students learning but also the fellow students through inclusion afforded by the powerpoint presentation.  I find powerpoint presentation to be a great, creative, simple and entertaining way to promote learning, so much so that I have created one to post in my blog to demonstrate my opinions.  However, like all other technologies they are only as productive as the user will allow them to be.  The powerpoint below took me 15  minutes to construct but 4HOURS to be able to incorporate because of my lack of technological abilities. 

The learning benefits that children could gain from the use of powerpoints in their learning are:

• Confidence from presenting to a group
• Organisation of different types of media, ie,images, videos, written word, music, photos that they could Incorporated into their presentation
• Time organisation to allow for group work and being prepared on time
• Gaining confidence in working with a variety of technologies
• Learning the skills of researching and referencing information
• Self reflection, self motivation and self evaluation

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