Tips for Integrating PowerPoint into the Classroom

The ancient world of dusty chalkboards, smeared whiteboard markers, hard-to-read overhead laminate are part of the past once you find the bliss of Power Point. Power Point has brought differentiation, creativity, and excitement to the world of teaching and learning.

Power Point has added to differentiating instruction for all learners: ensuring the use of multiple intelligences and adding the depth needed to enhance learning styles; creating lessons for the learning disabled; challenging the gifted and talented students. Because Power Points allow you to add pictures, sound, links to Internet sites, print words in all font sizes, change information with a few clicks of the keyboard, you will bring life and TV action into your classroom.

Integrating Power Point into the classroom is easy, fun, and a time saver. There are numerous ways to bring Power Point into your instruction, your projects, and your students' assignments:

NOTES

Power Point presentations are a much easier method of showing notes to your students. With each slide, you can add as much or as little information as needed. You can add pictures for the visual learner and you can add sound for the auditory learner. For students who forget to wear their glasses, you can use an easy to read font, with a bold style, and a large size.

Each slide can contain a brief amount of information and then link to an Internet site. For example, if your lesson is covering a math concept you can link to a Unitedstreaming.com video, which contains 1000s of videos on every subject. Show the video and then go back to your Power Point and move on to the next slide. If you are discussing Anne Frank and the Holocaust in an English lesson, you can link to visual pictures and sites which provide detailed information for further research.

For the students that have learning disabilities and you need to accommodate their learning needs, you can easily accomplish this task with Power Points. For example, if a student has dysgraphia, and another student has difficulty keeping up with the pace of the class, while another student is visually impaired, there are no more worries about meeting each child's needs. Simply print the Power Point presentation as notes for each of these students, and hand each one a copy before your begin instruction. While other students are writing, these students can write other beneficial notes on

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