Tips on making powerpoints: You should outline your presentation at the beginning and follow that outline throughout. You shouldn't use complete sentences and more than 4-5 points per slide not to overwhelm the reader. Two slides per minute or so should take place during the presentation. You should use bullet points rather than complete paragraphs on a slide. Animation should be limited. Fonts should be standard fonts that are large and easy to read. Font should be contrasting to your background and change of color on a page should be used sparingly to emphasize. The background on the slide should be used throughout and should be simple and uncomplicated. Graphs should have titles and should be easy to read rather than the use of raw data. You should use a concluding slide to end your presentation on a good note then have a question at the end to lead discussion.
Research Tutorial: EBSCOHost is a search engine where you can find articles, presentations, and papers to save when doing research.
Creating good powerpoints: Visual presentations are ways to help enhance a spoken presentations and not to replace the speaker. The slides should be there to compliment the spoken word.
Kid Pix and Powerpoint: Both of these programs include ways to bring creativity into a presentation. The other resources on these programs are there to enhance the text of a presentation. You can make classroom books, responding to literature, and extend student learning, There are many templates to choose from for each of these types of presentations.
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI found that this module was informational in the sense of tools we can use in the classroom. I was also comforted to know that how I would construct a PowerPoint is how we were instructed to do so.
What I like so much about these tools, is that NOT just the teacher can use them. I think these would all be great tools for the students to use to show what they have learned through various subjects, especially science and social studies.