Weekly Post - PowerPoint Activities

What?

This week we learned about PowerPoint activities. Our assignment is to get together with our team and create a PowerPoint activity of our own. For our team project we are creating a PowerPoint activity that teaches how to create and print your own matching game.

So What?

With this new skill, I can utilize PowerPoint to make learning activities. This would be a fun way to do an in class presentation in my classes this semester. Most of my presentations involve some sort of activity, and by using PowerPoint it would be a new interactive way of implementing an activity. I've never seen PowerPoint activities done before learning this and I think if I presented this it would excite the other students in the classroom.

Because I am in the practicum class this semester, I am grouped with a bunch of student teachers creating their own lesson plans. I would like to benefit from their hard work and share lesson plans to build my curriculum. I know that I make a lot of visuals for my lessons and activities, and if everyone created PowerPoint activities of how to make their visuals everyone could easily get that file to save for future use. By collaborating with each other it would save a lot of time collecting visuals and other elements of lesson plans.

Now What?

By using PowerPoint, I can start creating learning activities now that I could use in my future career as an early childhood educator. I think this would also be a great collaborative tool as well. If several different teachers came up with their own PowerPoint activities then shared them with each other, each teacher would benefit from the other teachers by sharing these activities.

This could also benefit the parents of students as well. Since I'm going into early childhood education, particularly preschool, I know that a lot of parents want learning activities to do outside of class with their children. By creating a PowerPoint activity that allows parents to learn to create their own activity, it allows parents to create activities of their choosing and gets parents involved in their child's education.

Video

I liked how this girl related her knowledge of chickens to all of the major cores of education: math, science, language, social studies. I liked this video because she liked chickens - not anything grandiose or anything. Just a simple dream of raising chickens that might one day lead to being a veterinarian or something else. It tells me that you can have any kind of dreams, whether big or small, having a small dream is better than no dream at all. I didn't mean to be cheesy and make that rhyme.