#8 PowerPoint in the Classroom

          I absolutely loved the tour that we were given of the lab.  I was amazed by every piece of assistive technology we were able to experience.  However, personally one stood out above the rest for me and that was the smart pen that we were shown at the very end.  It had the ability to take an audio recording of the lecture while you take notes with the pen.  Then when you go back to your notes you can touch a certain part of the paper and it will play you that portion of the lecture!  This absolutely blew my mind and would be so incredibly helpful for studying and making sure students are able to know what is going on in class.  If they have a question about what something means as they are going over their notes they can relisten to the lecture.  They also have the ability to take that to me and ask what I meant, if they need further clarification.


          The base of Bloom's taxonomy is "remembrance".  PowerPoint would assist in this, as I would share my presentations with my students so they could go back over them and recall what was talked about in our lectures.  To help students with the second portion of "understand" I would add definitions and captions to more difficult concepts.  I would also add links if there was a useful link to help the students further understand the concept at hand.  For the application portion of Bloom's Taxonomy, students will be able to take quizzes that I will have set up in the presentation.

          Through a presentation, I will be able to show various points and sides to a concept, especially with a subject like government.  This is very important to helping my class analyze the information.  PowerPoint gives me the option to have lectures and discussions with my students about different concepts and through these discussions, we can evaluate the subject matter, which is the next step up. Finally, students can reach the tip of Bloom's Taxonomy, by creating their very own presentations.


           In order to stay up to date with education technology news, I can follow Education Weekly as they have a technology section of their magazine.  This is an online magazine about current events that relate to education and the technology section focuses the news to be all about ed-tech.