Powerpoint

I love using powerpoint as it's easy and a great way to be creative by changing the design, text, adding images, audio, movies! Above is my presentation I created on on powerpoint. I focus on what children love, disney characters! But what they may not know is how it has changed over the years so the presentation is based on comparing the differences and similaries of disney characters from 19th century to 21st century.

I think using powerpoint is a great way for students to learn. Powerpoints can create different ways for children to learn particularly if every student has a different learning style to learn! If teachers use the powerpoint correctly then students are willing to learn! It's a great way to create your class lesson on the powerpoint by adding as much information as you can, whether it's through text, images, audio or videos. Students are willing to read and listen if the powerpoint presentation is set out correctly with lots of colours, different technology tools (images, audio).

Blackboards are boring which teachers and students do find it boring because no one learns. Using the powerpoint where it's displayed on a whiteboard using the projector, teachers will have students full attention throughout the whole class. There is more interaction with the students as to help them learn and expand on information that has been discussed among the group. Powerpoints is a great way for students to create their oral presentation for an assessment or another way to start up a worksheet (for teachers to create and students to complete) where it is more interesting and inviting for students to want to complete the task.

The only downside of using powerpoints especially in the classroom, is that it's time consuming, the teacher will be clicking away! Students may miss out on the information if they are slow readers or writers.Again, textbooks are thrown out because the teacher has analysed the book with powerpoint presentation. Limited literacy skills are improved as powerpoint is formed in dot points rather then sentences so students and teachers will be talking in short sentences rather then whole sentence.

I think if powerpoint presentations is used appropriately and students has the full information of the particular subject and students are still encouraged to do extra work (using textbooks) I believe it would be a great advantage to use powerpoint in the classroom.

Reference:
* Teachnology, "Powerpoint in the classroom", 2011. Retrieved from http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/powerpoint/
* A Journal of Life Science Education, "Powerpoint in the classroom", 2004. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC520839/