Power Point is neat to me because you can pretty much make your own video games. I think that using Power Point as an interactive tool in the classroom can be very effective, mainly because so few teachers use it as such. I don't know how many Power Point presentations I have sat through in my educational career not paying any attention at all because I knew that I was just going to go home and print the slides off the Internet and read them later. Teachers that teach in this manner could save us all a lot of time and energy if they would just e-mail the class the notes and we could learn from our beds.
However, Power Point interactive quizzes and games such as Jeopardy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are both exciting and useful for students because it is a break from the usual routine. Using this program to create assignments and interactive lectures always gets me excited all over again to be a teacher because I know that my students will enjoy learning in this way.
It took me a while to figure out what topic I wanted to focus on for this assignment; however, now that I have, I can't wait to go home and finish it!
YYaaaaayyyyyy!
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I love your enthusiasm for Power Point, now that you see the many possibilities of using it to engage our students. Keep that enthusiasm for other applications and you will be a great, tech-savvy teacher!
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