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The Windows PowerPoint is an excellent tool for both teachers and students. PowerPoint can be used for assisting presentations, pre recorded presentations, interactive presentations and much more. PowerPoint has a variety of tutorials available on YouTube for uses to view before using the application, however, I will discuss some settings I have used along the way.


                                                  Authors Image: Power Point 2022

In the screenshot ABOVE you can see along the top of the screen that there are a variety of designs to choose from. Alternatively, if you right click the background on any slide you can change the background to a picture (like I have done).

Power Point automatically provides text boxes, though you can add in extra for more customisation. In the NEXT screenshot you can see slide option up the top including ‘record’. This is where you can record audio on top of the slides at your preferred timing.

                                                            Authors Image: Power Point 2022

In the video below you can see an example of customised slides and pre-recorded audio.

Author's video: Power Point 2022

To take Power Point one step further, it is possible to create interactive designs and slides. This could be useful for a practice exam or consolidation. Students can select an answer and it will bring up the corresponding slides. You can see how to do this Here.

Students often create multimedia presentations as part of their assessment. PowerPoint is often used for students who do not feel comfortable speaking in front of the class, as they can pre record and submit it to the teacher. Alternatively, if there needed to be interaction between the students they could upload this to their wiki page quite easily.

The teacher would need to monitor ethics by checking referencing and pictures/visuals used on PowerPoints. As well as, confirming the privacy setting on the Wiki page.

Using the SAMR model students/teachers can:

Substitute – swap written practice exams and revision sheets for interactive PowerPoints within HPE

Augmentation – change multimedia presentations which reflect on their performance, to pre-recorded ones which include primary video evidence of their improvement.

Modify- Students upload these presentations to a WIKI which only the teacher can view and comment on for their drafting purposes.

Redefinition- Commenting and interaction between students is encouraged on the WIKI site, to provide the student with more feedback opportunities.


References

Terada, Youki. “A Powerful Model for Understanding Good Tech Integration.” Edutopia, 4 May 2020, www.edutopia.org/article/powerful-model-understanding-good-tech-integration.

Comments

  1. Jen15 April 2022 at 04:49

    Hi Shana,

    I enjoyed reading about your powerpoint explanation, I too think it is a useful tool. I liked your idea of setting up a wiki page to monitor students work, similarly to what we are doing within this subject.

    You provided a good explanation of how students can engage in powerpoint but I think it would be beneficial to consider how teachers can utilise powerpoint to enhance their teaching practises as well, as powerpoint allows teachers to present information in a range of ways.

    Good job,

    Jen

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  2. Ellyn EDSE2001616 April 2022 at 23:37

    Hi Shana,

    Unfortunately your link for the exam practice example is not working for me but I think it would be a very practical digital tool to use in class in preparation for exams.

    I like how you mentioned PowerPoint as a differentiation tool for students who are apprehensive about presenting in front of others.

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