Digital Tool 7 - PowerPoint

PowerPoint presentations are one of the most easy and accessible digital tools a teacher can utilise. Although in its creation is simple enough, it can become disengaging to students who sit there and read off a PowerPoint lesson after lesson.

These days, we can add real images (not clip art), animations, videos and audio (all digital tools) to help engage our students.

But there is more out there in regards to presenting our content within PowerPoints.

PowerPoints can become more interactive than the traditional text-heavy presentations.

There are many ways to promote the students to learn and discover. These can include:

• hyper-linking to external websites or other slides
• creating multiple choice quizzes (action buttons)
• unattended presentations
• games

There are many unique ways in manipulating PowerPoint for educational purposes.

Here is a link to some interactive PowerPoints

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/interactive-powerpoint-interactive-files-9616-2-1

And here is a link to creating a Jeopardy style game using PowerPoint

http://www.joe.org/joe/2003april/tt2.php