Week Four has been a journey in the areas that I enjoy the most. All the activities and programs that we have worked with this week are ones that require creativity and challenge you to think bigger and outside the box. Powerpoints can be quite boring if we just put a whole book of words and a few pictures and rant on about blah, blah, blah. With the world of prezi and much, much more presentations and powerpoints can be interactive and make you feel as if you are right through in it.
With the Technology Explorations this week I have found some amazing sites that I will be using soon to do projects with the kids. The Comiclife site will be first on the list and a way for my kids to express topics we are learning. I am excited to show my kids this activity and I can already see their minds running wild with imagination and creativity. The other sites that amazed me were Storybird and Scribblar. My kids already love to create stories and I have a million stories and books they have drawn posted all over my room. Storybird will be a way for them to make stories online and a digital version that everyone can see. It allows them to reach more people with their writing.
The powerpoint presentation I created and used with my students was with “The Hungry Caterpillar” book. We are working on math skills such as addition and subtraction and I wanted to use technology to get this to them. I used the various pictures and foods from the book to make interactive slides with addition and subtraction problems for them to solve at their desk. I presented my powerpoint to my 1st grade math students. I am the most proud of the visual attractiveness of my powerpoint and how it brings you to every inch of each slide. You do not look at the slides and see words everywhere, but pictures that tell you the problem. If I could change one thing about the slide I would add voice to it and make it ask questions to the students about each problem, like with Voice thread. The students looked the presentation and the artwork used. It was very appealing to the students and not just a lecture that went nowhere.
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