Reflection Task 3: Presentations

Welcome!

In this week’s blog I am focusing on PowerPoint presentations and trying to elevate my existing (very minimal) knowledge.

Microsoft PowerPoint

I didn’t realise how interaction PowerPoint could be.  PowerPoint presentations can be used for simple information presentation, interactive questionnaires, 3D demonstrations and even used to create videos.  I was already aware that PowerPoint presentations are completely customisation with options to modify the background, text, slide design, add additional features (images, music and video files) and slide transitions.  With limited experience of the Microsoft Suite, I believe all users could reasonably easy develop a basic slide presentation.

Whilst presentations will generally have one author, if the presentation is uploading to a sharing database like Microsoft Teams, all ‘Team Members’ can have access to and modify the presentation.

Within my classes, I frequently use basic PowerPoint presentations however this week I learnt how to hyperlink and create an interactive quiz.  In the PowerPoint questionnaire below, I utilised hyperlinks to other slides which was a brand-new skill for me.  Surprisingly it was very simple.  As you can see in the slides below, I utilised a question slide with answers in textboxes.  The textboxes were linked to other slides (correct or incorrect answer slides) with buttons on each of these slides to progress or go back to the question.

See my PowerPoint Here! (Note: Ensure you click on 'view' then 'presentation' so that functionality of the hyperlinks works.

 

The Hyperlink feature was very simple with the following steps taken:

1. 1. Turn off slide changes using a click (in slide transitions).

2. 2. Click on the textbox you want hyperlinked

3. 3. Click on insert then link

4  4. Click on ‘place in this document’ then select the slide to be linked

 

There are various means of sharing the presentation.  This can include simply attaching to an email, uploading to google docs, or using SlideShare or AuthorStream.  I found uploading documents to both platforms very simple to use.  Please see below for my AuthorStream presentation.

My AuthorStream Presentation

 

Supporting High Level Pedagogy

To better support high level pedagogy within my classes, students could create their own interaction PowerPoint presentations and share this with their peers.  This means that they are not only engaging and presenting the content they have learnt but they will also be learning from others as they interact with other students’ presentations.

One way this could be incorporated into the SAMR model is as follows:

Substitution – teacher to deliver content via PowerPoint presentation instead of writing on whiteboard.

Augmentation – Teacher creates and delivers PowerPoint presentations that incorporate various technology – pictures, videos, 3D images etc.

Modification - Teacher uses interactive PowerPoints to provide students to engage with content (e.g. questioning, make your own story etc).

Redefinition – Students to develop and share their own interactive PowerPoint presentations.

 

Legal and Ethical Protocols

The legal and ethical protocols are as explained in the previous two blogs.