Week 6 Has Finished!!

My goodness . . . . We are now finished with Week 6!  Where has the time gone?  I imagine that all the course participants would answers, "The time has passed with an enormous amount of work and effort, Donna!"

What a huge amount of work everyone has accomplished.  We just did a week with interactive PowerPoint.  Everyone's PowerPoint was amazing--creative and wonderful--and interactive.  I used to HATE PowerPoint because it was so non-interactive.  Students or an audience would just sit and be  blasted with slide after slide.  All they did was suck in words and pictures . . .  no activity.  Watching pictures or listening to a hyper-linked video is not interactive.  These types of PowerPoint are boring, boring, boring.  There is little difference from listening to a speaker without PowerPoint.  I have attended some of the worst PowerPoint presentations in the whole world were the words were tiny, the slides were crammed with as many words as the presenter could get on a slide, and the presenter read off the slides.  What a yawn.  How can this be teaching?

Interactive PowerPoint is another world altogether.  It can be simple, such as asking a question and inserting a blank slide so that the audience must concentrate on answering the question.  It can be as complex as a Jeopardy quiz.  Good, interactive PowerPoint can help produce a lively, active classroom with happy, participative students who are learning, learning, learning--rather than sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.

Donna