PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a very useful tool to create interactive multimedia presentations by yourself or your students. It allows you to put together images, sounds, texts, charts, movies to create an engaging interactive presentation. PowerPoint’s are used not only to present information, but also to organise and synthesise information. For an assignment I used PowerPoint as an interactive activity. Through my experience I feel that there are a variety of ways in which PowerPoint can be used from a very basic one to an engaging interactive presentation.


The following is a SWOT Analysis on PowerPoint

Strength
- Widely used and can be easily accessed.
- Easy to use.
- To show and present information or supporting material in a way people can see.
- A plenty of slide animations and transitions effects can be used to jazz up your presentation.

Weakness
- Some of the features can be quite complicated to use.
- Only compatible with Microsoft.
- Students might become overwhelmed.
- Simple presentations can become time consuming.

Opportunities
- Endless opportunities to incorporate into the classroom.
- Incorporates a range of ICT’s.
- To engage students.
- Allows a way for students to present their work.
- Students can develop deeper, higher order thinking skills

Threats
- Make sure that you back up your work so you don’t lose it

The follow is an example of an interactive powerpoint which can be incorporated into the classroom to refine a concept been taught. This simple activity can be changed to suit any year level or concept that you want to focus on. This is just one example have shared however, the opportunities of Powerpoint are endless. In addition, it depends on the way you use it in the classroom for it to be an effective tool.