Post #8

I think my PowerPoint2 presentation was very easy to navigate through. The buttons on the home page clearly mark which slide they will bring the viewer to, and each slide has a button to get back to the home page. While trying to incorporate graphics, I think I may have made the text less easy to read, although it is still legible.

In my classroom, I would integrate peripherals by having students take pictures of their work (for a science project or experiment, before and after photos, completed assignments). The students would be asked to take a picture with a digital camera, and then upload that picture onto the computer where they would create a file folder for it. These photos could be incorporated into a PowerPoint where the students would be asked to present their completed projects or assignments.

This past week I learned how to make PowerPoint more interactive. By adding action buttons, the viewer is less likely to become bored or inattentive to the material. I think this will be especially useful in my educational career because I plan on teaching younger children who would benefit very much from a more interactive learning technique. Young children are much less likely to sit through a PowerPoint lecture, but if the children watch the presentation from their own computers while interacting with the software, they would be more capable of learning and maintaining new information.