The document discusses the author's experiences using PowerPoint (PPT) for university presentations and an online course. It notes that PPT can be interactive, which the author plans to explore. The rest of the document analyzes benefits and challenges of PPT, including that it is easy to create and visually appealing but may not engage all learners. It also discusses opportunities like students creating their own PPTs or teachers using PPT to convey key points through audio and visuals.

1. POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
For managing e-learning

2. MY EXPERIENCES WITH PPT
I have been using powerpoint for many years. I generally use it for university
to accompany presentations. Recently I created a PPT presentation for one of
my flex courses, which was a new experience as I wasn’t use to delivering
presentations through solely ICT. After reading through this week’s
readings, I’ve only just discovered that PPT can be interactive, which is
exciting! I’m going to try and utilise these functions which are new to me
through this PTT whilst discussing the benefits and challenges of this
particular digital tool.
Enjoy 

3. ANALYSING
Benefits Challenges

4. BENEFITS
Benefits of PPT Benefits for student learning
• As it’s interactive it’s more engaging
• Easy to create for students, rather than simply
• Many different layouts to choose reading
from • As it’s available on most computers
students can access it at both home
• Can incorporate images, videos and school contexts
and sound • Students can easily create their own
• It can be interactive!! PPT or learn from viewing others
• Using ICT to support learning
• Visually appealing experiences, therefore developing
• Layouts make it easy to interpret important skills for the future
• Teachers (when being the creators)
• Effective way of portraying key can create PPT which convey
messages correct information and key
learning points
OPPORTUNITIES
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5. CHALLENGES
Challenges of PPT Threats
• PPT can usually be edited by only • May be an ineffective learning
one person, therefore if studying
tool for kinaesthetic or auditory
via distance education it would not
suit a collaborative task learners
• Only caters for visual learners • May also not achieve learning
• May be hard to convey important outcomes for very young students
learning concepts when relying only • Students may become disengaged
on the slides. Eg. may be more if there is not enough interactive
beneficial when presenting
components or if working
accompanied by audio or speaker
individually
• It would not suit young early
childhood suits if they are unable
to read

6. OPPORTUNITIES
Powerpoints are an effective tool as they can be created by a student or a teacher. Teachers
can use them when discussing key points or addressing a new topic as this provides
students with an auditory and visual experience.
Students can also use them to create their own presentation and or reflect upon learning.
As discussed in the Glogster post, students often use posters to accompany their verbal
presentations. However, PPT could create a more in depth, more engaging learning
experience as students can incorporate features such as videos and links to websites. PPT
may also be more effective in achieving this, as opposed to Glogster as with PPT students
can include multiple slides rather than only having the one page available. I have seen PPT
used in early childhood settings in other ways.
One good example which I saw was students creating a PPT after undertaking a unit of
traditional tales. In the powerpoints students created questions to traditional tale character
(one on each slide) and these questions were used as clues to reveal who the character was.
For example: ‘do you wear a red hood?’ (red riding hood). During this PPT the students
also incorporated visual images as stimulus. At the end as a class students shared their PPT
and played a guessing game.
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7. Powerpoints can be used to
scaffold :
• effective
• Engaging
• Informative
• technologically rich
• deeper (in comparison to not utilising ICT)
• Child-centred
Learning experiences …
OVERALL
Overall