The Power of PowerPoint

During tonight's class we learned how to properly use Microsoft PowerPoint. This is something that I thought I knew how to do, not necessarily because I'm a genius and PowerPoint, but because I've seen it misused so many times. My sophomore year of college, I enrolled in a World Cities class. Not only was the instructor pretentious and supercilious (for definition please see my PowerPoint), but he grossly misused the wonders of PowerPoint. Simply putting text on a slide and reading it verbatim was not a fantastic way of encouraging his students to learn, and become involved in what they were pursuing.

My favorite thing from tonights lesson was the template website that we were given. I found this so helpful! Without it, I think I would have been lost. Also, its just a really neat way to get students involved beyond a note taking level. I designed my PowerPoint around the quiz template, and I found it to be a fabulous format that would allow students to improve their vocabulary in a fun, technological way. In addition to this, you can make additions to the PowerPoint in order to make the students vocabulary list ongoing, and give them confidence in their ability to know, and understand new terms.