PowerPoint Presentations in the Classroom

By: Alexandra L. Bolden

History

• Founded in 1987 by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin

• Originally made for Macs

• Bought in the 1987 by Microsoft for 14 million

Operations*PowerPoint contains slides

*On each slide there are text, graphics, movies

*Slides makeup presentations

*The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter

PowerPoint in the Classroom

• PowerPoint is made to enhance a classroom presentation

• A teacher may present a new lesson through Powerpoint

• A teacher may also ask for students to use PowerPoints to re-teach what they have learned

Features that enhance a PowerPoint

• Animation

• Sounds

• Attention grabbing COLORS– For Backgrounds & Fonts

Things to Avoid• Small Font

• Font Color that doesn’t stand out

• Sentences that are way too long and basically ruin the point of using Powerpoint anyway. Powerpoint is not made for reading word for word. Powerpoint was made to supplement the presentation.

Examples

• For Teaching a lessonC:\Users\user\Documents\My Visit to the Zoo by Aliki.pptx

• How Students can use Powerpoint• C:\Users\user\Documents\How We Learned t

o Grow a Plant.pptx

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