Advanced Multimedia (PowerPoint)

Workshop Agenda

PowerPoint Discussion (10 Minutes)

  • Share Work That You Created
  • Questions About Using PowerPoint

Discuss Curriculum Driven Uses of PowerPoint (10 Minutes)

Discovering Solutions Activity: Teacher Teams (15 Minutes)

Hands-On (25 Minutes)

  • Creating a Presentation with PowerPoint (Curriculum and Literacy Links)
  • Review Basics
  • Introduce Advanced Elements

Project Design: Teaching and Learning Discussion (10 Minutes)

Final Activity: Building A Project Template (15 Minutes)

Wrap Up/Assignment/Evaluation (15 Minutes)


Additional Resources


PowerPoint Tutorials

 Handout from Workshop (downloadable Word document)

PowerPoint in the Classroom
http://www.actden.com/pp/

PowerPoint Basics-A Tutorial
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edpy202/tutorial/PowerPoint/pptBasics/pptBasics.htm

PowerPoint Resources
http://edtech.sandi.net/handouts/powerpoint/


PowerPoint Articles

PowerPoint-Creating Classroom Presentations
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech013.shtml

What's the Point of PowerPoint?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech204.shtml


Curriculum Driven Uses of PowerPoint
Free at Last
Pictorial depiction of the civil rights movement created by a student in the Nebo School District in Utah

Solar Energy
Student produced presentation by a student at North Chadderton School in the UK

Math Jeopardy
Teacher-produced as part of a Media Workshop professional development programL

Lesson Plan: Investigating World Cultures
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0005.shtml

That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties with the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=294
This lesson uses collaborative learning along with an inquiry based approach.

Inquiry-Based Research

Inquiry in the Classroom
http://magnet.sandi.net/overview/sequence.html