Take Away 4/14

Todays class was very interesting and informative. I love using powerpoint and have used it for years but never knew about all these hyperlink options. I knew a power point presentation could be interactive but the examples that we saw today really blow me away and I was really impressed. I also learned about voicethread which was something completly new to me. There are so many possble lessons that you could use to incoporate this. This would be a great tool to use for literacy, for example when students are on spring break.Many teachers give students reading assignments and ask for a write up. Instread students could give a oral explantion about the part of the book they read and have a whole class discussion without actually being in the classroom. For powerpoint one could do a math lesson for example when doing a lesson on adding two fractions. The students would solve each part and if they got it right then they could move on to the next slide with the next step on how to solve the fraction. These were just ideas I came up with in less then 5 minutes but the ideas are endless.