Every summer vocation I travel
abroad for relaxation and to see my relatives who live abroad (USA, UK,
Denmark, Holland, Iran, and Kuwait). This summer my trip is different, I feel as if I
am flying to the future via the time capsule! Moreover, I entered a new world,
the digital world where I explored new directions in my job, teaching! I can
say that in this summer vocation I traveled a lot, to different galaxies,
through various time periods. Starting from the Blog to the Delicious, then the
Rubrics, followed by the WebQuest, and now I am moving in the PowerPoint
planet.
I discovered lots of techniques to promote
my teaching. I didn't know that we can make the PPT interactive until this week
Task! So I explored the web to find out how can we put Hyperlinks/jumps into
our PPT and found a YouTube video about how to Create a Hyperlink in
PowerPoint, by Dough H., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YObaZUF9Xyo
this video is followed by various videos that are related to the
applications of PPT, like Add Animation in PowerPoint Slides on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPmTT0ndr4, How to create 3D Puzzle Pieces Diagram: 3D
PowerPoint Series on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCfcFh8_qoI, etc. These videos leads to many other videos that teach you how to use different
types of PPT to display your teaching material.
I am working on how to implement the
PPT in my lectures, so I exploited the task of this week for one of my lectures.
Before that, on Week5 - Project Task
#4 – Describe a Technology Tool,
I referred to the technology tool I am going to use in my classes which consists of a laptop connected to the internet, and a data show to
present the material on their white board displaying videos of native speakers
of English and prepare several power point files about their text materials in
addition to do several exercises from http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/psv.html.
To sum up I am going to implement Videos, PPTs, and exercises from http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/psv.html in
my lecture. In addition to these technological elements, the article of this
week " Enhancing
Learning by Engaging Students" by Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw provides worthy resources a
teacher can use to enrich the learning environment in large classes. All these
resources are going to be merged together, to form my Final Project.
Wish you happy summer vocation, like
mine!
Abeer Ali
Hi Ali,
ReplyDeleteYou have such an inspirational post this week, and I'm not talking about the picture only - the whole journey concept. Thank you for the links to PPt making tutorials. They come in handy for teachers, some of them bringing out the artist within as well as for the students who might need some help creating PPt.
PS I don't know how the post for Lorena ended up on your blog. My apology.
Cheers,
Diana
Romania