Power Point

I enjoyed the videos that were chosen by my classmates. They were all relevant to their topics but the videos that I liked best where Keri’s love animals video and David’s scary office video. Everyone did a great job making power point a visual and using comedy to keep people awake during the lectures. Some of the things were so out there that they were perfect like James’s animal pictures or Zach’s sound effects.
There were a few examples of text being blended into the background making them difficult to read. The other concern I had was the content level being too varied from really easy to reasonably difficult. Sometimes people would go to fast to get a look at some of the slides because they didn’t have any text on them so they skipped them.
The next time that I do a power point I am going to bring more comedy and some text to the power point rather than relying on just pictures. I am also going to make an attempt to record myself so that I can learn how to improve my presentation or post it for my class.
I think that power point is a great tool for the classroom and takes the focus off of the teacher which can be nice from time to time. It allows for easy visuals that can be planned out for a certain time. You can add commentary that can be posted for students to see and hear anytime they want. Power point does make going on tangents more difficult while usually you don’t want to they can be the best part of lessons on occasion. Power point can also make the lecture more difficult to make the lesson interactive with the students because the teacher is focused on the board rather than the class.