Competency 11.2 “Use
media and technology to present the subject so that it is comprehensible
to others”
Competency 11.4 “Use technology-based
tools that are specific to the discipline”
Competency 12.6 “Resources
available including satellite, cable, wireless, and ITFS (Instructional
Television Fixed Service).”
In a group with three other classmates we made a PowerPoint Presentation for second graders on colors. We used Microsoft Office and opened the Power Point program to make our presentation. In second grade students are learning in art about the color wheel and different types of colors. Our PowerPoint is titled, “Welcome to the Colorful Zoo”, which is full of different colored animals making up primary, secondary and mixed colors. The PowerPoint includes a title slide, a color wheel, primary colors, secondary colors, mixing colors, bibliography page, copyright notice, and a source page. The PowerPoint includes music, sound and animated clipart along with a picture of our group taken by a digital camera. It even includes two hyperlinks to internet websites. We included a variety of colors and different animals to make the presentation colorful and fun. We then presented our presentation to our class as a group explaining what we did and how.
Impact
By making the PowerPoint Presentation we will be able to create more PowerPoint Presentations for future use in the classroom as a teacher. Using PowerPoint will make us have an organized way to teach and give us the chance to use different types of technology to present material to our students. The PowerPoint Presentation is a good way to teach a class to engage the students in learning, and also will teach students about different technology methods. By completing the PowerPoint Presentation as teachers will now be able to teach future students how to make their own PowerPoint Presentations.
Alignment
The PowerPoint Presentation
meets competency goal 11.2 because we as a group presented our PowerPoint
Presentation to the rest of our classmates and explained thoroughly what
our presentation was about and went through the presentation slide-by-slide
explaining different colors in an easy understandable way. Also making
the PowerPoint Presentation meets competency goal 11.4 because we worked
together as a group to present to the class the presentation and we also
worked together to gather information from the Internet to complete our
presentation and make it interesting to present to the rest of the class.
Meeting these two goals by presenting our PowerPoint to the class our group
made it adaptive for all students to use.
We used the speakers
mounted on the wall for easier hearing. If students in our class
have hearing impairments the speakers on the wall will project the sound
more and perhaps help those hearing impaired students hear the music and
sound included in the presentation. Using the projector and the large
screen on the wall allows those who may have visual trouble to see better
and also makes it easier to see from all views of the room. The large
projector allows for our presentation to be seen large and clear.
We also met this goal because we used the media available in the classroom
to present our PowerPoint to the rest of the class.
The PowerPoint Presentation
also met competency goal 12.6 because we used wireless technology when
presenting our PowerPoint. As a group we used the touch screen in
our presentation. The touch screen is an advantage for the teacher to use
because they can move around the room and not be tied to one spot.
The touch screen also helps in the classroom because it gives students
a chance to get involved in the class. Teachers can have students
to be apart of the lesson by asking them to go and touch the screen to
change slides.
INTASC principle 9 was met
by using PowerPoint to present information to students, and parents.
I could also use this to present information to other professionals at
a conference or at PTO meetings.