Dear friends,
This week discussed one of my favorite area, power points. Garr Reynold's 'Top Ten Slide Tips' were really interesting and informative. The reading material 'Presenting with Power Point' gave a lot many ideas left out by Garr. 'B for Black slide' and Ctrl+L for hiding cursor are new and very useful tips to me.
The other interesting area that had a lot of discussion was 'managing large classes' by engaging learners. Learners are manageable when we deliver challenging activities where every learner has a role to play. Web-quests, projects, interactive power points and the like will make the class interesting and engaging.
I found an interesting video on YouTube. Watch it and find what the learners demand from us!
Implementation of the change:
When I took the learners to the computer lab, I found none of the learners have previous experience in using computers for surfing the internet. My learners have got only one period (one hour) in a week to use computer lab. This week I had to introduce browser, how to type address in the address bar etc.. What I could do is getting the learners familiarized with the internet. I thought I should not lead them to the business of webquest right away. What they did was, google the names of the town they live in, finding their school using google maps. I hope I can introduce webquest next week.
Best wishes
Sujith
This week discussed one of my favorite area, power points. Garr Reynold's 'Top Ten Slide Tips' were really interesting and informative. The reading material 'Presenting with Power Point' gave a lot many ideas left out by Garr. 'B for Black slide' and Ctrl+L for hiding cursor are new and very useful tips to me.
The other interesting area that had a lot of discussion was 'managing large classes' by engaging learners. Learners are manageable when we deliver challenging activities where every learner has a role to play. Web-quests, projects, interactive power points and the like will make the class interesting and engaging.
I found an interesting video on YouTube. Watch it and find what the learners demand from us!
Implementation of the change:
When I took the learners to the computer lab, I found none of the learners have previous experience in using computers for surfing the internet. My learners have got only one period (one hour) in a week to use computer lab. This week I had to introduce browser, how to type address in the address bar etc.. What I could do is getting the learners familiarized with the internet. I thought I should not lead them to the business of webquest right away. What they did was, google the names of the town they live in, finding their school using google maps. I hope I can introduce webquest next week.
Best wishes
Sujith
Hi Sujith,
ReplyDeleteI find Powerpoint very interesting too. Well produced slideshows draw students attention, and as it is said, a picture is worth 1000 words. I'm making efforts to integrate this tool, with the suggestions of all my e-colleagues.
Regards