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Join in the PowerPoint Revolution!
March 18, 2009 | | 1 Comment
Change is in the air…I can smell it! We just launched two projects, one in 5th Grade, one in 8th Science, both involving yet another assignment involving PowerPoint/Keynote. My colleague and I have been working on a resource list for teachers & students, chock full ‘o examples and reasons why the old-style bulleted list slide shows are a thing of the past. To see our resource list, loaded with examples and links, just click here.
An old camp counselor of mine, Robert Goodman, is singing the same tune. Joyce Valenza just wrote this blog post on the very same topic. And having attended the recent CAIS 2009 Regional Meeting, I must say that there were far fewer “death by PowerPoint” presentations to sit through.
Hopefully our students will take the new thinking around designing electronic slides to heart. I promise to post examples here when projects are finished!
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This news is great! I like the thing that the Power point mobilizes the teaching methods of the faculty. Once a badminton coach said, a ratchet is not a sports apparatus but an extension of the arm of a player. Same thing the powerpoint is the extension of the faculty!