Why use PowerPoint? Bridget Schimara - Instructor

Uses for PPT ✮ Attention Grabber Attention Grabber ✮ Notes Notes ✮ List Daily Tasks List Daily Tasks ✮ Announcements/Due Dates Announcements/Due Dates ✮ Web Quests Web Quests ✮ Visual w/ Video Visual w/ Video ✮ As a Warm-Up As a Warm-Up ✮ Review Review

Attention Grabber ✮ Digital Natives (your students) like and use technology. You show you can teach them the way THEY like and need to be taught by using PowerPoint. ✮ Digital Natives tend to get bored and have a need for the teacher to WOW them. Uses for PPT

Notes ✮ To catch the attention of the Digital Natives. ✮ Gives visual/verbal connection ✮ Satisfies many modification requirements Print out notes for mods ✮ To have available for absent students Uses for PPT

List Daily Tasks ✮ Keep a PowerPoint going at the beginning of class stating what’s on the agenda for today ✮ PowerPoint scrolls while students are doing their warm-up Uses for PPT

Announcements & Due Dates ✮ Announcements scroll during class telling students the important dates coming up ✮ Announce due dates, test dates, events, etc. Uses for PPT

Web Quests ✮ Place Web Quest in student folder and students can access to access additional resources for a particular unit which is “predefined” by YOU. ✮ As an exercise ✮ For vocabulary ✮ w/ links to notes, text, review, etc. Uses for PPT

Visual w/ Video ✮ You can show a demo of a project ✮ Video yourself giving directions ✮ Read to students ✮ Put visual to words ✮ Have students explain concepts in their own words. Uses for PPT

Warm-Up ✮ Have a PowerPoint ready with Warm-Up going to get students busy when they enter class ✮ Warm-Up Ideas: TAKS Questions SAT Vocabulary Spelling Grammar – sentences w/ incorrect grammar Punctuation – sentences w/ inaccurate punctuation.

Review ✮ Review concepts. ✮ Test their knowledge. ✮ Play a game. ✮ Post review questions. Uses for PPT

File ✮ Save as Web Page ✮ File Search ✮ Permission ✮ Package for CD ✮ Web Page Preview ✮ Page Setup ✮ Print Preview ✮ Print (gives options of what to print) ✮ Send to: ✮ Last opened PowerPoints

Edit ✮ Shows Office Clipboard What you have copied and can paste ✮ Delete slide ✮ Find and replace

Views ✮ Slides and Recorded Timings ✮ Normal ✮ Slide Sorter ✮ Slide Show ✮ Notes notes for presenter ✮ SLIDE MASTER Change all slides at once ✮ Grids and Guides How elements are aligned Notes Ex.

Tools

Slide Show

Formatting ✮ Font ✮ Bullets and Numbering ✮ Alignment ✮ Line Spacing ✮ Change Case ✮ Replace Fonts ✮ Slide Design ✮ Slide Layout ✮ Background ✮ Place Holder ✮ An Object ✮ Drawing Toolbar