Artifact # 4
PowerPoint Presentation was created to be presented as a model at a school’s open house, in order to provide students and parents with information that would be helpful in their preparation for beginning a new school year.
Context
This PowerPoint presentation was created using Office 2000 Microsoft
PowerPoint software. I worked in a group to complete this project
for my Foundations 3100 class at Appalachian State University. My
group and I used the Internet to access information concerning the second
grade curriculum. Clip art pictures, animation, and sounds, also
from the Internet, were inserted to compliment the issues addressed, and
make the slide show more unique and appealing to students. We inserted
a hyperlink to the Discovery Place, which can be visited at http://www.discoveryplace.org/.
The student would visit the Discovery Place on a field trip, so this hyperlink
would inform parents and students of the various concepts of the educational
attraction.
Impact
The PowerPoint presentation aided my group in learning about computer
software that was new to us, presenting information to the class concerning
the second grade curriculum, and providing an artifact that we can revise
and use in our own classrooms. The slide show presentation benefited
my class and would benefit the parents and students that may attend an
open house at the beginning of a new school year. It would provide
them with information that would be necessary for them to know for the
up coming year. Using this program has increased my awareness of
different ways to use technology to communicate information. This
project has taught me valuable information concerning organizing and communicating
information using technology.
Alignment
We used a digital cameral to take a picture of our group. We
chose to use this medium as it portrays an accurate representation of our
group. This photo will help students and parents recognize us. We
then imported the photo from a floppy disk to our PowerPoint software (Tech.
Competency 11.2). During the presentation, we used a Touch Screen
and a Gyro Mouse. This advanced, wireless technology is very convenient,
as it allows you to move freely around the room to keep students on task
or attend to any students individually. We used a Sony LCD Data Projector
that was ceiling mounted to project to a large screen (Tech.
Competency 12.6). The Sony LCD Data Projector and the large screen
provided a display of the information on a much larger scale. This
is a wonderful provision for students with vision problems. The wall
mounted speakers provided auditory accompaniment to the visually stimulating
presentation. The speakers are an asset in a classroom, as they are
located around the room, providing a surround sound source of audio as
opposed to a direct source, and the loudness of the speakers can be adjusted
to assist the hearing impaired (Tech. Competency
13.2). The PowerPoint presentation allows the teacher to communicate
verbally and nonverbally using media. This promotes interaction and
participation between the teacher and the student audience (INTASC
6). The PowerPoint presentation provides a way to present information
in a nontraditional format. Rather than a monotonous lecture, this
presentation fostered a display of the information that was aesthetically
pleasing and well organized. The discipline that this presentation
focuses on is Media and Technology, as the information is successfully
communicated to an audience, including special needs learners, through
technological resources (Tech. Competency
11.4).