Blog post 8

I'm actually really proud of my PowerPoint 2 presentation. According to the rubric from chapter 8, I excelled in all areas. The text is easy to read, and the colors compliment each other well. The navigation buttons are located in the same place on each slide, and are labelled correctly for what they're supposed to do. Every image on the screen has a purpose, and no slide is cluttered with objects. I did not use any flashing text and all transitions are consistent and appropriate. A variety of images were used, including Word Art, clip arts, and pictures from online. I tried to incorporate screen shots, but for some reason that button won't work on my laptop.

There are a lot of peripherals that can be incorporated into a classroom. Some of these include printers, digital cameras, loud speakers, microphones, and scanners. Having a digital camera in the classroom would be really cool, especially when working with younger students, because you can take pictures of the special activities that you do, and hang them up around the classroom. At the end of the year, you can put them together to make a digital scrapbook for each student. Printers are clearly important, because they're used to print out information/assignments for students and must be connected to a computer to work. Another importer non-computer audio device is an Ipod/ Ipod player. My childhood education teacher last year used to play songs for the preschoolers to teach them lessons, and for the older students when we were doing book work to keep us entertained and focused.

I absolutely loved this lesson. A girl in my Intro to Education class last semester made a Jeopardy game for our final exam, and I thought it was the coolest thing. I learned how to use hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations which opens up a whole new set of possibilities for presentations to my students. I would use these new skills to create games and animated stories for my students, which will be a fun new way for them to experience and learn information. If my students are old enough to be able to learn these skills, I'll teach them how to create games and stories as well so that they can create presentations for other classes.