The in-class activity we participated in class would be a very good thing to do with a middle school class, who would just be starting with making their own Powerpoints. We were split into pairs and given a common problem that a lot of people encounter when making powerpoints. For example: The colours of the text are hard to see, or difficult to read due to the text, or there were too many gadgets and slideshow effects. We all then created a couple of slides showing the problem, and had the rest of the class try and guess what the powerpoint problem was.
I think that this is an effective way of showing students how to create effective and easy to read powerpoints.
I won't be blogging consistently over the coming weeks, but sometime next month there will be more for sure! Until then...
