Power Point Presentations

Well this certainly is an old form of presenting information. I did it back in school to provide something to look at and at present my teacher for my uni class uses it to provide us something to go back and look at to revise what he has gone over in the class.
Although a very funny video, it did have some good points about the overuse of a powerpoint. Too much text, overuse of bullet points, way too much statistics (graphs) and overuse of animation.

The powerpoint presentation that I made for a class to cater for the student individual differences in the class was a simple presentation aimed for a group of children in the prep year learning about colours.

The presentation starts off with the song "Sing a Rainbow" (using audio media) then as the song progresses, colours fly in to the slide to represent the colour being sung. Once all are on the slide they form a rainbow, hence the song. (used animation). For vision impaired children the slide show would not need any changes done as the song is already an auido media which allows them to hear. Then the following slides are discussed as a group, so agian they would be able to understand what is going on. For hearing impaired children you could add the additional box in the presentaion of someone doing signing or the teacher can sign the presentation.

On the following slides, each slide is an individual colour and has items representing that colour on the slide, for example - red, red apple, red socks, red hat etc. These slides would one by one appear for the children to look at.

Relating the powerpoint presentation back to the Engagment Theory:
Relate-Create-Donate

Relate - emphasizes team efforts that involve communication, planning, management and social skills.
To the powerpoint careful planning went into the powerpoint presentation with constant thoughts about how student where able to relate this back to their real life. This is done by indivualising the slides with each colour and allowing the children to tell me what they know comes in that specific colour, therefore relating the colour back to their life.

Create - makes learning a creative, purposeful activity.
After the powerpoint shows the students are then given time to go and create something to encorporate a colour of their choosing. This allows them to make learning colours a creative and purposeful activity.

Donate - stresses the value of making a useful contribution while learning.
The students work is then able to be put on display with the powerpoint and a small story explaining the activity so the children are able to take pride in their work and show it off to parents/grandparents/friends etc.