Post #8

I was at first quite annoyed with the PowerPoint assignments, and as you can see, I decided not to complete them. This is based strictly on the fact that I learned how to do most everything presented to me in class recently when I was about twelve years old; I didn't feel that it was worth the time to complete. However, I did learn some interesting "tricks" this week in class.

I feel that the ability to link slides to one another, as in he second assignment, will be monumentally useful. As an eighth grade language arts student (which is what I am planning to teach), I always found that games were the easiest way to learn. Jeopardy is the prime example; teaching students to know the question rather than the answer teaches them to better analyze knowledge. I also found that using PowerPoint as a way to show one of Aesop's fables to the class is quite a good idea. It will be difficult, no doubt, to teach students excerpts from Shakespeare but, it will be much easier set to pictures on a presentation.