Week 7 PowerPoint

   There are many writing activities that students will have to encounter in their student lifes. One way I have found to be in my most benefit is creating outlines using concept maps to help organize and come up with ideas for topics. There are many ways to go about doing this there are also programs on the computer called semantic networking tools these give you a more visual and verbal for developing concept maps. Clearly using concept maps for wrighting activities is very helpfull in the classroom.
   PowerPoint is a vital tool in the classroom there are so many different things that you can do with this program in a classroom setting. Although powerpoint can be very usefull in presenting ideas to a classroom it is vital that we do not let this program do the presenting for us. Sometimes people put to many vdeos and effects into their powerpoints that it can take away from the person presenting the presentation. There are a few guidlines we can stick with to keep this from happening one of witch is to just use the same font through out the presentation and too not use so many visual aids and also keeping the presentation short so your audiance does not loose interest.
   There are many writing activitie tools that we can benefit from as teachers and students. We have tools that help us gather information, organize and also help in presentation. Clearly using these programs and aids can help us in the classroom.

Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.