Powerpoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a wonderful tool for making presentations. It can also be misused. There are a number of good examples of bad powerpoint out there. But the main message that someone needs to take out of a discussion of PowerPoint is that Powerpoint works best supporting a powerful, well-delivered presentation delivered by a speaker. The powerpoint presentation works well as a way to provide an additional channel for the speaker--often the emotional channel works well for this.

Because of this some of the best presentations don't use more than three words to a slide and are full of emotionally evocative images.

As a teaching tool, Powerpoint can surely be useful. It can be overused as well, because it forces a linear format that doens't lend itself well to monitoring and adjusting in front of a class.

That said, let's look at some examples of using powerpoint in the classroom: Finally, there are a lot of places to get lessons on powerpoint. [|AtomicLearning] has the quickest, point-by point resources.
 * Perhaps too cute for words.
 * [|Education World, Powerpoint in the classroom]
 * [|Powerpoint Ezine]
 * [|Education Templates from Microsoft]
 * [|Brain Betty has some templates...some cheese]
 * [|Useful rubrics from Jamie McKenzie, etc.]
 * [|Presenters University]: free downloadable materials
 * [|Microsoft Templates]
 * [|Presenter's Resource]
 * [|Slideshare.net]
 * [|Instructify: Grab attention with Powerpoint!]
 * [|Insert Youtube into your powerpoint]