We "learned" about power point this week. I quote learned because there wasn't much teaching about it because we already know it pretty well. Not amazingly well but its pretty easy to pick up as you go. And so here we are making wonderful power point activities.
It seems to me that power point is becoming the place to turn for direct instruction. Maybe I'm wrong but most classes I go to that have a projector regularly use power point slides to convey and organize their direct instruction. The problem I see is that the slides and presentations are often quickly compiled and sometimes lack cohesion.
Now I need to learn how to make my slides not bland, and my presentation more than just a presentation of information. There is a lot of ideas out there on how to make power point presentations actual learning tools. So it is going to be incumbent upon me to spend some time on my presentations, use a little backward design. Make sure they align with what I am teaching and what I want my students to learn. There is huge potential for differentiation I need make sure I am using that potential.
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