Interactive PowerPoint
Would I use an Interactive PowerPoint in my classroom? Yes! I loved making one. It was nothing special but learning how to do it was interesting. The instructions were easy to follow, however I did have to create a slide share account to upload it to my blog, which I had never done before. PowerPoint provides opportunities for teachers and students to incorporate multimedia to liven their presentations/ teaching. Preparing class presentations and activities in PowerPoint allows for easy reuse and adaptation for other activities. For example, students who have missed a day or more can easily access material presented in class. It could either be sent to their email account and they can access it at home or complete it at school in their own time to catch up.
PowerPoint gives you the ability to bring in many different kinds of media, including graphic images, colored backgrounds, photographs, sound files, video clips, animations, and text. It also allows you to hyperlink pages within the presentation to external Web pages, as well as to other pages within the presentation which I just learnt how to do. In my classroom I would use PowerPoint all the time to create fun and interactive activities, learning materials and games for students. Using Powerpoint as a teaching tool can prepare students adequately for projects that require PowerPoint for presentations, oral reports, or other assignments.
To sum up on using powerpoint in my classroom as a future Learning Manager, I use a SWOT analysis to scaffold my thoughts.
STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSESS | OPPORTUNITIES For certain strategies | THREATS | |
Interactive PowerPoint | · Catering for diverse learning styles · Student and teacher directed learning · Can print all documents displayed on PowerPoint · Can hyperlink throughout presentation rather than a chronological order presentation · Easily to add content · Lessons can be prepared months in advanced · Can be maintained any time if saved from a computer | · If used in classroom, there needs to be a whiteboard or/ projector · Can be time consuming for Learning Managers | · Present multimodal devices for students · Students can use for presentations · Can save a presentation as a webpage/HTML | · Ethical and safety issues when working online · Students need to modeled and aware of copyright issues |
Just as with using any ICT tool in the classroom, students and Learning Managers need to be aware of the legal, safe and ethical guidlines for using powerpoint.
As a future Learning Manager I will:
- model appropriate behaviour when working online
- model and expect student acknowledge resources and information presented on powerpoints
- encourage student research is carried out in a safe and legal mannar
- encourage students use creative commons for pictures
Prezi
My thoughts on using prezi as a teaching tool in my classroom:
- It was so confusing to navigate around at first. However the tutorial was great except it was not the same version that i had on my computer, which made it confusing.
- The prezi website takes so long to download. If this was the case in the classroom, the students would get frustrated just like i did and boredom would start to kick in.
- Once I got started I couldn’t stop, it was fun to make.
-Prezi has capability to reach all audiences in classrooms i.e. those students who need a strong inspiration for them to engage
- You can’t hyperlink in prezi which is a shame. You can insert them into a PDF file first and add what you want that way though.
-In a nutshell, prezi, is a simpler and fancier version of PowerPoint – Instead of a slide based linear structure, it gives you a single big canvas to work on. You can zoom in and out across a large poster, create motion paths, add text, embed images and video files or YouTube videos. Prezi’s zooming feature grabs and holds the viewers’ attention. It lets you create a sort of walking path through your presentation that makes it engaging and striking. Another bonus is that it is free.
Glogster
Using glogster in my classroom. Two weeks ago on my prac, my mentor teaching was talking about the students creating their own glog on glogster, I thought she was meaning blogster. So, yes, I am laughing at myself and thinking how silly I must of sounded talking about it. I tried it out- my glog was a little boring, but I can see its potential.
Pretty much it is an online, digital poster making program. Giving students a piece of cardboard and asking them to create a poster on a topic is so outdated now and boring. Giving the students the ability to use a technology device to create the same poster is much more engaging and their presentation would be more interactive.
I like how you can have student accounts and is easy to navigate. When I created my example, it came with an automatic background, which I didn’t want on my poster. I couldn’t figure out how to delete it or get another background. I tried to put a picture over it, but you can’t drag the sides of a picture to make it wider, just higher. I had to put 2 of the same pictures as my background to cover up the background that was already there. If I spent longer time on it, I am sure I would have found out how to, hopefully.
For use in the classroom- the possibilities are endless! They are multi-media posters that can include text, images, and video. As a teacher I can create glogs for students to use and students can make glogs for projects/ presentations. Instead of printing our pictures and messing with scissors and glue, images and video can be added right to their glogs. They can express an event in history, a science concept, characters in a story, or math concepts. Assignment/ projects would be structured so that they are providing valuable information, but can also use they creativity and express themselves!
Teachers have a master account that controls the progress status of all student Glogs – “Unfinished”, “Finished”, or “Public for All.” It is a safe and regulated environment with master account controls for teachers to edit student accounts – registration, passwords, add/delete students, and messaging and comments. Teaches can add up to 50 student accounts under their own.
GROUP 4 TECHNOLOGIES
Animations and simulations
Gizmos are ideal for small group work, individual exploration, and whole class instruction using an LCD projector or interactive whiteboard.
Google Earth:
Google Earth is an amazing tool. Never thought of using it in the classroom but thinking back to when I was first introduced to it last year at uni, we were so distracted with it no one wanted to move on in class.
Students can explore every corner of the globe, measure distances, create their own virtual tours and share their tours with others. Through using Google earth students can study maps, learn map reading and navigations, visually explore historical, news and census data, annotate locations and share with others, create their own 3D models to overlay on maps and download geographically-referenced information. Google Earth would be useful in my classroom learning in many key learning areas.
Google Maps:
Google maps, much the same as Google Earth. It enables you and your students to look up and study addresses anywhere and get point-to-point, draggable directions plotted on an interactive street map. You can also research public transit options and study Yellow Pages listings with reviews and business information. You can freely switch between map, satellite, terrain, and Street view modes to gain various perspectives on a location. Best of all, Google Maps is an online application, free of charge and no downloading. With MyMaps, students can create personalized, annotated, customized maps. Whether planning a field trip or documenting a famous traveler's journeys, you can embed photos, videos, and descriptive text to make the content come alive. You can also publish, share, and invite others to collaborate on your project.
Online concept mapping-
After exploring bubbl.us and brainstorming all the different ICT tools that I have been exploring over the past 6 weeks, I realised how this tool could be used in the classroom. Seeing a visual image of the tools like I did made it much clearer. Students and Learning Managers can use this online brainstorming tool to map out ideas, add hyperlinks for students to research further about a concept and add images. Learning Managers can create an account and students log-in and add to the concept by adding new ideas in bubbles and expanding others ideas.
To sum up my thoughts on the ICT tool- online concept mapping bubbl.us I used a SWOT analysis.
STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSESS | OPPORTUNITIES For certain strategies | THREATS | |
Online concept mapping | · Interactive brainstorming · Can be done cooperative or independently · Learning Manager can have a brainstorm started and all students can login and add to it · are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge · Works in a hierarchical order with links · Can create many files/pages under one username · Pictures and animation can be added · Collaboration of student ideas · Teachers can add hyperlinks so students can click and research on particular parts of a concept | · Have to login · Students need their own log-in or class log-in | · A whole class · Can be used and create by students and Learning Manager | · Ethical and safety issues when working online · Safety issues when students are researching online |
Just as with using any ICT tool in the classroom, students and Learning Managers need to be aware of the legal, safe and ethical guidlines for using online concept mapping.
As a future Learning Manager I will:
- ensure students do not provide personal information online through the concept maps
- use creative commons for images
- be aware of harsh content student could access and montior student access
- encourage safe and legal behaviour of students
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