This document provides an overview of effective ways to integrate MS PowerPoint into classroom instruction. It discusses PowerPoint basics and offers ideas for student activities and projects using PowerPoint, including creating personal storyboards, group solar system presentations, and interactive book reports. The document emphasizes using engaging content like images, questions, and multimedia rather than walls of text, and highlights best practices for technology integration to enhance learning rather than replace other methods.

1. Module 5 – Integrating MS-PowerPoint Into Your Instruction Technology Integration MS Office in the Classroom

3. PowerPoint Basics

5. Ordering

6. Grouping and ungrouping

7. Students Using PowerPoint: Activities to Consider

9. – Have your students create a personal storyboard, a storyboard of a famous person, or one for a character in a story/book they have read. Include both text and images if you wish. Activity 1

11. Have your students work together and create a class or small group project using PowerPoint Activity 2

12. Activity 2 Our Solar System

14. Our Sun is a big star. It is the most noticeable feature in our solar system. It is located at the center of this system. The Sun is so large that our earth could fit inside of it over 1,000,000 times. The Sun's strong gravitational pull holds Earth and the other planets in place. Activity 2 The Sun

15. PowerPoint for Instruction

16. “ PowerPoint is where all good presentations go to die” But, it doesn’t have to be this way!

18. What can engaging content look like?

20. The Middle East Try making your PowerPoint both visual and verbal

21. 18. When looking at this map, where do you find Islam the most? 19. When looking at this map, where do you find Islam the least? 20. When looking at this map, what can you tell about Islam in America? Europe? Asia? Africa? Engage students … ask questions on your slides The Middle East

22. How do we affect our environment? Use images that bring about emotion / discussion

23. The Iron Curtain Try using less text

24. 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 US and USSR Fight together In WWII The Cold War 1945 - 1991 (U.S.) (U.S.S.R) The U.S. and U.S.S.R become suspicious of one another. A rivalry begins that is based on military and economic competition. = Wars indirectly fought against one another = Cuban Missile Crisis — potential Nuclear War = Berlin Airlift Use PowerPoint tools to design your own content

25. Try to avoid …

26. Dining out during the Great Depression. A family eating at a soup kitchen. Dining out during the Great Depression. A family eating at a soup kitchen. Pay attention to your text and how it interacts with your background

27. Be Careful of Overload

29. Try avoiding animated clipart and images

30. Tools for your Presentation

31. Use Streaming Video Activity 3 – hyperlink to a video How can I elevate student interest and engagement? Adding short streaming clips to your teacher toolbox can have a positive impact on your classroom and your presentation.

33. Let freedom ring… Activity 4 - Incorporate Audio

34. Use Images If you want to publish your presentation on a wiki, blog, or website, use websites that offer free non-copyrighted pictures.

35. Need help with PowerPoint ideas and techniques, go online!

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