PowerPoint( © MicrosoftCorp.) is an extensively used donation programme that began in the world of business but has now come commonplace in the world of educational technology. Still, its use is far from controversial in this educational environment and opinions as to its use range from largely probative to significantly negative( Citation Szabo & Hastings, 2000; Lowry, 2003). One of the major problems is that its current use is constantly limited to an information transmission mode, frequently with inordinate content, an operation that obscures the wider eventuality for different professional and pedagogically-sound donations. I've been using PowerPoint to deliver all applicable classes since 1996, as well as delivering staff development sessions on both the programme and the pedagogy of its use. It's my contention that it's a precious aid to donation furnishing that its use has been precisely considered in terms of pedagogy. This paper examines some of the crucial issues that must be considered at both an individual and an organizational position.
Part of the difficulty in objectively assessing the use of PowerPoint in education stems directly from one of its most favorable features, videlicet the ease of use and the fairly shallow literacy- wind needed to achieve introductory- position operation. This has resulted in, frequently questionable, practices within educational circles. It particularly includes inadequately allowed- out use in lectures where it becomes simply an indispensable form of presenting largely textbook- grounded material that used to be delivered using ‘ old technology ’( chalk and talk) this makes little use of the new and flexible openings offered by use of PowerPoint within the educational field.
This paper provides an overview of both the benefits and the problems associated with its use and suggests some crucial pedagogical opinions that should be considered when espousing its use. It'll not change the nature of the academic content since that will be discipline-specific and must remain an issue for the academic staff alone. I also wish to emphasize that I'm not championing its mandatory relinquishment under all circumstances and by all staff. still, I do hope that, by furnishing information and direction on stylish practice, I may convert those presently meaning its use that the benefits, when meetly used, far overweigh the implicit negatives for both staff and scholars and that it offers an excellent and important tool to grease the bettered delivery of numerous courses and modules.
Some good reasons to use PowerPoint
So why should you consider using PowerPoint for your tutoring and literacy conditioning? There are numerous reasons but the crucial bones
include
● Applicable use of PowerPoint can enhance the tutoring and literacy experience for both staff and scholars.
● It provides stimulants and support to staff by easing the structuring of a donation in a professional manner. The templates handed have been designed to overpass good donation criteria similar as the number of lines of information per slide and applicable fountain sizes and types, etc using the styles of the dereliction templates can significantly ameliorate the clarity and structuring of a donation. This helps to avoid the common use of inordinate textbooks frequently set up on overhead clarity.
● By careful mixing of media, a donation can appeal to a number of different literary styles and be made more stimulating. You're encouraged to incorporate more sophisticated visual and audible media into donations although care is needed because of the ineluctable increase in train sizes and the peril of inordinate use. objectification can be done, either directly from within the programme or, occasionally more successfully, by applicable breaking of the PowerPoint donation and using indispensable technology(e.g. tape recording player or VCR). Note that this doesn't bear switching off either the computer system or the projector system, one of the most common comprehensions that circumscribe use — rather, use the ‘ B ’ character toggle switch during a slide donation to ‘ blank ’ the screen temporarily while using other media.
● The electronic train format allows distribution and revision for/ by scholars unfit to be present or who have bloodied visual or audible difficulties. PowerPoint comes with a free bystander programme that can be distributed with the lines so that the anthology isn't needed to have PowerPoint on their particular system. Still, if they do have it, they're suitable to perform a lesser variety of manipulations on the PowerPoint train, similar to editing the textbook, etc before publishing it out. utmost Virtual literacy surroundings( VLEs) are now able to include PowerPoint donations if needed.
● Editing of each PowerPoint train is veritably easy with minimum associated reprinting costs. This ease and implicit proximity of modification facilitates reflection upon, and elaboration of, tutoring accouterments by staff whilst minimizing the consequences of any modification in terms of either workload or time. This was a major reason for my own expansive switch of tutoring accouterments to PowerPoint, indeed when the end- product needed to be an overhead protuberance slide. I also find that I can add a new slide whilst in a lecture if so needed. I frequently use this system to present notices or produce a record of the outgrowth when collecting information from the class so that it can later be made available to the entire class.
● The printing of handouts in a variety of formats is eased with a number of bedded options to print either the slides themselves( useful if there are plates involved) or the textbook from the slides( outlines). The outlines may be saved as. rtf format and opened for further revision within an applicable word processor. This allows the easy development of further sophisticated handouts grounded on the PowerPoint donation but with redundant interactive rudiments similar as readings and questions added where applicable.
● Redundant information can be ‘ retired ’ within lines for answering prognosticate questions or for furnishing feedback to scholars using the train in a distance- learning environment. The use of speakers notes as an automated feedback system was described by CitationMottley( 2003) who also describes other ways to use PowerPoint for development of tone- study accouterments
● The portability of the lines, especially on compact disks( CDs) with their large capacity, allows donations to be given wherever the technology is available or distributed where applicable. donations can also be set up to run automatically if needed eg. as demonstrations instructions within a laboratory
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