PowerPoint is software included in Microsoft Office that can be used to create slide presentations. It allows users to customize slides by changing backgrounds, text colors, and embedding images, videos and audio. PowerPoint is relatively simple to learn for those familiar with other Microsoft Office products like Word and Excel. Students and teachers can use PowerPoint creatively in the classroom, for example by creating interactive quizzes or replacing handwritten instructions with prepared slides. At higher levels of the SAMR model of technology integration, teachers could have students complete assignments or group presentations using PowerPoint.

1. Week 5 Reflection
PowerPoint

2.  PowerPoint is software included in Microsoft’s Office
package. There are versions of it available for PC,
Mac, as well as tablet computers.
 While traditionally it is used for making a slide
presentation, a user can be creative with it. The ability
to embed images, videos and audio directly into a
slide opens up many possibilities for its use.
PowerPoint: About the Software

3. PowerPoint: Customisation
 Users of PowerPoint can customise the
look and feel as they please. This slide
demonstrates some of the things users of
PowerPoint can do, including:
 Changing the background of individual
slides.
 Changing text colour.
 Insert images:

4.  PowerPoint is relatively simple to learn and use. The
software design (such as the menus) is in the same
style as other commonly used Microsoft Office
products, such as Word and Excel. Those with
familiarity in those other programs should have little
trouble in learning the ins and outs of PowerPoint.
 There is help available within the software, as well as
plenty of online tutorials available.
PowerPoint: Ease of Use

5.  Students could use PowerPoint as their information slides for an oral
presentation, or a creative way to present work such as their
assignments, allowing them to embed resources that they otherwise
wouldn’t be able to with an essay (such as video or audio).
 Teachers could use PowerPoint as an alternative to the standard talk
and chalk style of teaching. The teacher can focus more on their
student’s learning and cover a lot more content in a short period of time
with prepared slides.
 An example of an activity in the classroom supported by PowerPoint: I
have personally used PowerPoint in the classroom as an interactive
quiz, where quiz questions presented on a PowerPoint slide are
projected directly onto the whiteboard. The students wrote their
answers onto the whiteboard before the correct answer was revealed
in the next slide. This kept the students attention and ensured their
involvement in the activity.
PowerPoint: Classroom Application

6.  At the ‘Substitution’ level of the SAMR model, I could
replace writing instructions on the board by hand with pre-
prepared slides in a PowerPoint presentation detailing all
the information I would have otherwise spent time writing.
This could also be a way of demonstrating to the students
how to do a presentation while utilising software such as
PowerPoint.
 I could also embed other resources I need for the class,
such as YouTube videos that help explain or demonstrate
concepts.
SAMR Model: Substitution

7.  At the ‘Augmentation’ level of the SAMR model, I could
create an interactive environment where the students sit
around the whiteboard where a PowerPoint presentation
is projected onto the board.
 The slides would each present a math problem, which the
students take turns in trying to solve by writing on the
whiteboard directly onto the slide.
 A duplicate slide is loaded on completion, only this time
with the correct answer added into the slide. This allows
students to directly compare their answers, and turns it
into a bit of a game too which could help with student
attention.
SAMR Model: Augmentation

8.  At the ‘Modification’ level of the SAMR model, I could
have my students complete their assignments
through PowerPoint instead of completing a booklet,
giving the students experience on alternative ways to
present information.
SAMR Model: Modification

9.  At the ‘Redefinition’ level of the SAMR model and in an
accounting classroom, I could set group work which
involves students researching a particular accounting
concept and then creating a presentation that thoroughly
covers the concept. The students could then present this
to the rest of the class, giving them experience in
explaining accounting concepts to others like they may be
required to do with their future clients if they pursue an
accounting career. Having to present the concept to the
class will hopefully reinforce their own understanding of
the concept too.
SAMR Model: Redefinition