The document discusses using PowerPoint in the classroom. It notes that PowerPoint allows teachers to create presentations that combine visuals, sound, animation and interactivity to support lectures and instruction. Some benefits of using PowerPoint include emphasizing main points, displaying key questions, making lessons more organized and flexible, and modifying presentations for reuse. Creative presentation ideas mentioned include interactive multimedia kits for students, field trip slide shows, autobiographical student stories, and science diagrams.

1. Using PowerPoint in the Classroom. Royston Emmanuel Technology in Education

2. What is PowerPoint? Microsoft PowerPoint is software that allows you to create presentations to support talks, lectures and other forms of instruction. It allows you to create interactive multimedia using in combination visual images, sound, animation and interactivity.

3. Benefits of PowerPoint in the Classroom A presentation can be used to summarise a lecture. Main points can be emphasized. Key questions and issues can be displayed.

4. Benefits of PowerPoint in the Classroom The presentation itself can be enhanced by using graphics, animation, sound and interactivity.

5. Benefits of PowerPoint in the Classroom Add flair to presentations with slide and bullet transitions and animated effects.

6. Benefits of PowerPoint in the Classroom Presentations can be used to make lessons more organized and flexible.

8. Creative Presentation Ideas Field Trip Slide Shows - Develop field trip slide shows to review and apply knowledge learned on a field trip. Students can work together to make a slide show that presents what they saw, as well as what they learned.

9. Creative Presentation Ideas Autobiographical Stories - Students can create short autobiographical stories about themselves. Scanned photos can be inserted for interest. Once the slides are complete, you can put them together in a presentation to show an audience, such as an open house or parent night.

10. Creative Presentation Ideas Science Presentations - Use PowerPoint to teach processes and how things work. Teachers or students can add additional items to a diagram to illustrate how a process grows and changes. Science principles work well using this format.