Cause and effect
For this activity we had to create a powerpoint that would hold an audience's attention. Something different than an old boring, bullet point slide show. I am pretty familiar with powerpoint so making the slides wasn't a big issue for me. What took the most time for me was finding images that I wanted to use from the internet.
I decided on a very simple topic of Cause and Effect. I have taught the topic before to second graders and I thought having a visual representation of the idea would go along way in helping them to understand. After gathering the images, the slide show assembly went pretty fast. I didn't use a lot of text so there wasn't too much to format, etc.
I already had a DropBox account so I didn't have to create a new one to save my Cause and Effect PowerPoint.
After I saved the powerpoint the difficulties began. I was working in PowerPoint 2013 and after saving to drop box I wanted to access the <embed> code so I could paste the slideshow into my blog. Turns out there was a change from PowerPoint 2010 to 2013 and the Share > Embed menu item is no longer there. So I started down a long path in trying to figure out how to get this embeded in to my blog. Finally I used a website called SlideShare which let me upload my PowerPoint and create the necessary HTML code to paste into my blog.
These steps took a few tries. My slides looked perfect in PowerPoint but after uploading and embedding some of the text had shifted and things were a bit botched. I repeated the process a few times but there are still one or two slides were words are out of place. I'm not sure what to do differently to prevent or change that.
NETS 3 applies to this activity because Powerpoint is a great tool for teachers to use to teach digitally to their students.
For this activity we had to create a powerpoint that would hold an audience's attention. Something different than an old boring, bullet point slide show. I am pretty familiar with powerpoint so making the slides wasn't a big issue for me. What took the most time for me was finding images that I wanted to use from the internet.
I decided on a very simple topic of Cause and Effect. I have taught the topic before to second graders and I thought having a visual representation of the idea would go along way in helping them to understand. After gathering the images, the slide show assembly went pretty fast. I didn't use a lot of text so there wasn't too much to format, etc.
I already had a DropBox account so I didn't have to create a new one to save my Cause and Effect PowerPoint.
After I saved the powerpoint the difficulties began. I was working in PowerPoint 2013 and after saving to drop box I wanted to access the <embed> code so I could paste the slideshow into my blog. Turns out there was a change from PowerPoint 2010 to 2013 and the Share > Embed menu item is no longer there. So I started down a long path in trying to figure out how to get this embeded in to my blog. Finally I used a website called SlideShare which let me upload my PowerPoint and create the necessary HTML code to paste into my blog.
These steps took a few tries. My slides looked perfect in PowerPoint but after uploading and embedding some of the text had shifted and things were a bit botched. I repeated the process a few times but there are still one or two slides were words are out of place. I'm not sure what to do differently to prevent or change that.
NETS 3 applies to this activity because Powerpoint is a great tool for teachers to use to teach digitally to their students.
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