Mwa ha ha. I hate Power Point. It makes me go to sleep. I would never use it in class.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/04/03/1175366288359.html
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Power pointSubmitted by stron on 4 April 2007 - 4:17pm.Tags: Mwa ha ha. I hate Power Point. It makes me go to sleep. I would never use it in class. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/04/03/1175366288359.html
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Good articles
I wonder if it is the same when you have students use the material during the presentation, such as listen and repeat?
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Simple lessons
That's interesting...I used Power Point last semester a lot for my lessons. They sucked. I make simple lesson plans this semester with the same students; they take a third of the time and they're far more successful.
Power Point
I use Power Point only for my own benefit as a prompt to remind myself the things that I want to cover for the day. While I have a lesson, I have my laptop on the front desk with the power point slides, but I seldom ever do a power point presentation since they're not effective and even if I did want to do one, the school's crappy computers would take too long to set up.
However, there are times where a power-point presentation will work. This is only if you take advantage of the button options where certain options will lead to a certain slide. It works for games (like Jeopardy!) and whatnot, but not for actual lessons.
Using the board
Where would using the board to write down stuff work? Or having students take notes during class?
Board work
I find that using the board is more effective to show basic sentence patterns. Students won't pay attention to power point slides, but they will pay attention to the board. It's also easier to actively show what words relate with what in a sentence.
Power Point
What about linking video or audio files in the power point. Will the kids get pumped up about these multi media gimics enough to pay attention to the points I'm trying to make? And is the technology fast enough and in shape to work with video and audio files? It would be helpful to know as I prepare to teach high school students on Jeju this fall. (It's true, though, that Power Point takes a lot of time to create and wouldn't be worth the effort if it won't get the desired results.)
Possible materials for high school
I don't really like powerpoint and I think it's a lot of work.
If you'll be preparing your own lessons, you might find these books useful for high school. Scroll down to the middle of the page and you'll see three books, each with a student and teacher version. All pages in those thre books are free to download and printer friendly. I teach middle school and though most of the lessons are too advanced, I did use a few lesson plans from Tell me More and they were extremely successful.
The idea in his lessons is student centered learning as opposed to teacher centered learning. Students acquire language through doing useful and interesting activities as opposed to learning grammar or memorizing vocabulary. For the author's homepage, click here.
I don't like microsoft either.