PowerPoint Basics
PowerPoint allows you to create a slideshow that includes a range of multimedia: images, voice narration, sound and/or music, drawings, videos, hyperlinks to resources online, embedded files. Basically, it can be...
- a container for resources,
- a linear presentation,
- a web page where users choose which slide to navigate to by clicking a hyperlinked image or word(s),
How could students use PowerPoint to practice the skills outlined in Common Core
or to present ideas about a concept or topic?
As a designer of classroom learning experiences, you are limited only by your creative ability to give students the opportunity to show what they know in a creative format! Try taking a topic/concept from your curriculum, allowing students to use inquiry (read, think, discuss, research) to learn the concept/topic. Then, have students create a real-world product to share their learning or apply the learning.
Facilitate students' learning throughout the process as needed by...
- giving pointed mini-lessons on key concepts,
- modeling to demonstrate how to perform a specific skill or to explain a concept,
- guiding students to needed resources,
- questioning to push students to deeper thinking and richer products,
- checking for understanding to make sure students are learning key concepts,
- providing rubrics (or working with students to co-create them) and models that identify what quality work looks like.
Here are a few ideas of products students might create using PowerPoint:
- Documentary
- Photo Narrative
- Story
- Narrated Portfolio of their work (use voice narrations to reflect on work and learning)
- Editorial Cartoon
- Argument
- Web Site
- Interactive Resume
- Advertisement
- Informational Presentation (Like a booth a fair with a looping slideshow)
Explore the links below to find other ideas:
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