Powerpoint

I have always thought about PowerPoint as quite a simple tool, this was until I started Uni. I have since discovered the various aspects this tool has to offer and how wonderful it really is. I have found that it does not only have to be used as a tool for presentations. A PowerPoint also allows for you to embed images, text, audio and videos into it. A PowerPoint would also be a great tool for students to interact with. It would allow the teacher to create an activity relating to a particular topic whereby students can work through an activity on their own. Appropriate questions can be posed within the PowerPoint which would promote higher order thinking. Hyperlinks can be embedded into the PowerPoint which would lead students to particular websites you would want them to research. Students could respond to these questions by creating a PowerPoint themselves which would allow for the creation of new tasks through technology. This would lead students into working within the modification and redefinition levels of the SAMR model.