Integrating Technology
in your Classroom

SESSION 2
PowerPoint in the Classroom

This session we will focus on PowerPoint as a presentation tool in the classroom.  This will also include hands-on practice using the PowerPoint software.  PowerPoint is easy to get started using and as you become more familiar with it, you will begin asking all kinds of questions about what more can be done. The URL listed below is a site that has a tutorial for using PowerPoint. Another good source of PowerPoint help is from the help menu that is built into the program. It will walk you step by step through creating a PowerPoint presentation and will show you things that you never even thought of doing.

Resources:
PowerPoint Tutorials: PowerPoint Tutorial by Matt Herbert or Creating Slide Shows and Related Teacher Material
Sample Slide Show: Addition PowerPoint
Teacher Created PowerPoint Presentations: Seaford School District  or Jefferson County Math Presentations
Creating Effective Presentations (download zipped folder)
 

Assignments:
 

• Create a PowerPoint slide show to present in Session 3.
  
• Begin to look at the Internet as a source for curriculum planning. Visit the site listed below as a starting point for looking at how some teachers are integrating technology to support curriculum.
  Curriculum Ideas: http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html
   
• Surf! Look at web pages that others have created that are of the type you want to make. Get ideas for session 3
  
• Research how Assistive Technology can help in your classroom.  Before Session 3, email a brief proposal on some aspect of Assistive Technology that you would like to use in your classroom.