Plundering with Powerpoint

Powerpoint is a great resource that every learning manager should use. There are many different uses that could come out of a simple powerpoint that could help all learning types to obsorb information. A learning manager could use it as an engaging tool to help students learn as it has the visual image of text or diagrams to help the visual learners. Interactive powerpoints could also be created that could help the kinesthetic learners to learn by following prompts or answering questions. Sounds and other noises could also be incorporated into a powerpoint presentation to help the audio learners. I have created many powerpoints for assignments during my schooling life and know alot of the basic things and even a few of the in depth things. All learning managers need to use powerpoint as an engaging tool in their classroom.

Plus:

• Suitable for all learning styles, ability levels and age groups
• Fun and engaging way for students to learn a topic
• Students will be able to create their own presentation for an assessment piece

Minus:

• Because PowerPoint has such a broad definition, some students may not understand all of the different tools that can be used in PowerPoint

Interesting:

• PowePoint can be added to google docs so that the document can be retrieved from anywhere as long as google is available
• PowerPoint presentations can be added onto blogs, website and wikis