Week 6 Post 2

Interactive PowerPoint Presentations

Two very easy types of interactivity that can be included into any PowerPoint presentation are navigation and feedback. For navigation, you can use onscreen buttons and hypertext for a branching structure, allowing the user to visit the sections as they wish or to provide the option to gain more information on topics of interest.

 For feedback, slides can present questions and offer choices of answers. With proper scripting, when students make choices they are either given feedback on the slide or are taken to new slides which provide information. Benefits for the user of this structure include increased engagement, control, and interest along with immediate response.

        A more common application of non-linear PowerPoint presentations is in reviewing knowledge. With just a little practice, you can create quizzes. In these slide shows, students are asked questions and then click on what they think is the answer. If the answer is correct, the show moves to the next question. If the student answers incorrectly, the show moves the student back to re-answer the question or, if the question is of the True/False variety, explains why the answer was incorrect before moving them on to the next step. 

The student participates by not simply clicking in one direction but makes choices that affect what slide comes next: making the presentation interactive and non-linear. The movement between slides is not one-way, not linear, the pathway is determined by the student's interaction with it.


  

Week 6 Post 1

Student-centered classes

Besides carefully planning our lessons to foster students' participation we need to make them notice their responsibility for their own learning process and teach them how to participate.

Through this week's readings I had the opportunity to learn new techniques to promote interaction, and also to refresh some that were "hidden" in my toolbox.

This made me think that the course is giving me many important things:

  * Getting to know colleagues from all over the world.

  * Sharing and learning together.

  * Enriching my PLE.

 *  Fostering active spring-cleaning of my toolbox

Week 5 Post

Another awesome week of learning and sharing., building community with colleagues around the world. 

I like webquest, although I still have some difficulties to create them. The links for creatng them were very helpful. I hope to go on learning how to build them properly.

I want to share a presentation I prepared after reading about Assessment and Evaluation.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

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