Powerful Powerpoint

Powerpoint offers Learning Managers and students opportunities to create educational presentations. These presentations can be designed in both a student and teacher directed structure by the Learning Manager to engage the learner by incorporating a wide variety of multimedia aspects such as videos and images. by utilising Powerpointds within the classroom encourages students of all learning styles and attitudes to become enthusuastically involved in learning experiences. Teachnology Tutorials (2009) highlights the potenial of learning by using Powerpoint when they state that "PowerPoint can be one of the most powerful tools for disseminating information ever known". Powerpoint also prompts students to become aware of art and design elements when they are involved in designing slides, fonts and colour elements. Students can use this powerful tool in many ways for example: students work in small groups to develop a PowerPoint presentation on a specific topic for presentation to the class. The PowerPoint presentations used by Learning Managers serve as models for students. Here, they gain skills in organising information and understand how to utilise the wealth of information available on the internet.

Teachnolgy Tutorials (2009). retrieved 6 August 2009 from http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/powerpoint/