Creating avatars in education can help get the creative juices flowing and create safe images to post of the students online. Here is a list of ideas for using avatars in classrooms: Create book trailers with the avatars representing the characters Teachers can put their avatar in their powerpoints to get the kids attention. Create [...]
With the New Year I thought I would focus on a few New Year’s Technology Resolutions. The first one is: “I will learn to avoid the commons PowerPoint mistakes.” PowerPoint is a great tool for getting information presented to a group of people, but too often we try to make PowerPoint do too much for [...]
This post explains a work around to posting audio files when you don’t have the space to host and stream the files. Back in the fall the US History teachers wanted to post student created audio files and videos quickly (24 hours turn around). We didn’t have a space to host these types of files for [...]
Did you know that you can embed YouTube video into PowerPoint 2002? I just figured this out and wanted to share what I learned. This only works when the computer you will be showing the powerpoint on will be connected to the internet. Find the movie you want to embed and find the URL: In the address [...]
So now that you have seen how to create a presentation, the question remains, “What type of presentations should I make?” Here are some ideas and examples taken from teachers on campus: Quizzes or Tests- While I never recommend running a test or quiz completely on TurningPoints, it is a good way to gather information [...]