|
PowerPoint is a program designed
for making presentations. It
is great tool for teachers to use when presenting lessons.
However, it is very powerful in the hands of kids.
Students or groups of students can use it to present reports to
the class, or it can be used as show for to be used standing on its own,
without a formal presentation. Using PowerPoint helps students to organize their thoughts.
It provides a professional look that can pull text, images,
sounds, and even movies into a great way to communicate, allowing all
students to be successful.
As a tool for comprehension, it
can be used to for anything from vocabulary development, to structure
and plot of a story, to a way to present interpretations and analysis of
what students have read.
Here are just a few ideas on how
to integrate PowerPoint into your reading comprehension activities:
- Vocabulary
– Assign students to make vocabulary slides and link them
together. Review as a
class or make it a game to match the words to best image or
definition.
- Analyze
and evaluate information – Ask students to focus on main ideas and
critical details of informational materials in any subject area.
Groups of students can jigsaw a topic and present to
information to the rest of the class.
- Illustrate
and analyze a poem and share as a class.
- Read
and interpret narrative and dramatic literature – Assign students
to make slides that describe and illustrate characters (including
motivation), setting. Show
influence of the meaning had conflict of text.
Illustrate elements of plot, setting and characters.
- Retell
a story from a new point of view, or if a key element in the story
is changed.
- Report
on the author
- Compare
similar themes across several stories.
- Review
a book, or content with a game such as the ones in the template
section.
Using
PowerPoint in our workshop today:
-
Write the text in slides as
though note taking; use few, important words.
-
Use images, color, sound to
keep it interesting, but don’t overdue.
We will take a tour:
buttons, views
To make sure that we have the
tools open that we will need, go to View>Toolbars, make sure that the
following toolbars are checked, meaning that they are visible to you:
Standard, Formatting and Drawing
Let’s
build a sample together. (See the printed PowerPoint with notes)
Microsoft
Design Gallery Live -Pics4learning
-ClassroomClipart.Com
Saving – pack and go, save to
the web Printing
Rubric
|
Samples of Effective Uses
Elementary
Author PowerPoint E.B. White (L.Foote)
PowerPoint
Presentation on Winston Churchill by Gwendolyn Clark
Outdoor
Education 2001 | Biomes
Project
Jeopardy
| a Joke | Kids,
Adults and Technology
Posting to the Web
PowerPoint
on Tips in PowerPoint
(Thanks Linda Foote)
Putting
PowerPoint on the Web
(Thanks Linda Foote)
Adding Music -
wav files
workshops/cinderella.wav
| workshops/new
love.wav | stravinsky_sym_in_3_1.wav
See: http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/projects/ms/workshops/kidsPowPt.htm
Templates
Microsoft's
Quiz | Jeopardy
PowerPoint | Microsoft's
Back to School
Denise
Hogan
EdTech Trainer, LSS
Poway Unified School District
|
|
October
30, 2002 