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=Week 7 and 8=



Why Use PowerPoint?
This Microsoft program provides the ability to make an interactive presentation using text, art, animation, and audio and video elements. This program can be adapted to work for students at any age level.



What Makes a PowerPoint Bad?
 W hat are the ways these examples are improperly using power point? How could one improve their mistakes? media type="custom" key="3460084"

What Makes a PowerPoint Good?
Make a list of what these power points are doing well and where improvements can be made.  The following are used in primary grades

[|Mrs. Teodosio’s Kindergarten site]



    --Power Point for Professional Development Session


 These are some tutorials that will help answer any basic questions that you may stubble across.

[|PowerPoint in the Classroom tutorial]

 * Building A PowerPoint Together**...today we are going to focus on all of these advanced skills:
 * Action buttons
 * Animating text
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Inserting Sound
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Putting animation in order
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Adding slide transitions
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Using interactive text box object

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<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(You may use this as a template if you want to create a jeopardy board with your students!)

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your own PowerPoint
<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Now it is your turn! Create a non-linear Power Point presentation that you can use in your own reading classroom! Below is a rubric to help guide you along the way. With your Power Point please include a one to two paragraph rationale.



<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">For Week Nine:
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 * 1) <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Email your Power Point and rationale to either Beth or Jenn by March 31st.
 * 2) <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Upload digital pictures to either your H:// drive or a flash drive to use for Photo Story. These pictures can be relevant to a book you have read in class, or just pictures you have on your camera!
 * 3) <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Determine your action paper topic. Send it to your instructor with a sentence or two rationale for your choosing the topic.