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Module 3: Teaching and Learning with Multimedia and Powerpoint

Session Objectives: After this learning module, you should be able to: build a four slide show in Powerpoint that integrates text, graphics, and sound download clip art and sound files and import into a slide show explain how Powerpoint presentations can be used to enhance teaching and learning describe the range of educational multimedia resources available on the Internet  Completing these tasks contributes to your continued growth in the following areas:  ESPY Course Objectives Connecticut Technology Competencies for Level 1 Exam National Technology Standards

SETTING THE SCENE
 

SCENARIO:  You are beginning a unit with your fifth grade students about Life in the Rainforest and you realize that they have little or no background knowledge about what a rainforest looks like or what type of plants and animals live in a rainforest.  You read a great picture book to them yesterday, but you are looking for a little extra something to spice up your discussion on rainforest animals later in the week.  You have seen teachers use Powerpoint to present information in a workshop setting and wonder if there's anything valuable enough online about the rainforest that would be worth putting into a slide show to share with your students.  What types of multimedia resources might enhance your discussion of this topic?  How might you access these types of resources?  How would you begin the process of getting multimedia resources from an Internet webpage into a Powerpoint slide show?

 

REQUIRED TASK:  During this lab session, you'll have an opportunity to explore multimedia resources online and learn how to import these resources into a PowerPoint slide show to foster more interesting student discussions about a certain topic or to help build the background experiences of students.   Your lab instructor will provide an overview of the types of multimedia resources available on the Internet within the context of a prepared Powerpoint slide show.  Your job will then be to select one of the following content areas and create a slide show (or adapt an electronic template) that makes use of some of the multimedia resources found below that topic.  Towards the end of the session, you'll be given the opportunity to share or "present" your topic to the rest of the class.

Topical Multimedia Resources to include in Powerpoint Slide Shows Science: Life in the Rainforest Great clip art, diagrams and appropriate text from Enchanted Learning Many sound clips of the rainforest to download from Kid Explorers Rainforest video clips to download from Kid Explorers Social Studies: American Memories Today in History: photos, primary documents and background information See, Hear, and Sing America's Story from The Library of Congress Math: Problem/Image of the Week Source for Problems at many grade levels and topics from Math Forum Graphics and animations for first year calculus Quicktime movies and views of spirographs and knots Math Graphics and Visualizations Index from Math Forum Literature: Diary of Ann Frank Photographs and Background Information about Ann Frank Audio of a speech from Adolf Hitler in 1938 from the History Channel Short stories and photos of Holocaust Rescuer & Survivors from Scholastic.com Open House or Field Trip (use the digital camera to  Example of Back To School Night Slide Show Example of Slide Show created by Kindergartners in Norwich, CT

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EXTENDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES You are not required to visit any of the resources listed in the following section as part of this course. These links are available to enrich your own use of technology in this course and as you move through the IBM program and out into your field experiences.

Powerpoint Tutorials and Online Guides ActDen's Powerpoint in the Classroom Clip Art for Powerpoint from Microsoft's Design Gallery Live Powerpoint Tasks from Internet4Classrooms

PowerPoint Shows by Teachers and Students

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