Assignment 8

Work on midterm PPT Project

Your midterm PPT Project should benefit from the lessons you have learned during the first half of the course.  You have worked with a wide variety of multimedia and have learned how to develop many new materials by creating and/or editing images and sound and using these in a well formed context with clear pedagogical objectives.  This project is your chance to shine and really show what you know!

Remember, you should use ideas gleaned form your work with the web as you create this PowerPoint presentaion. It's not the medium that matters, it's how you present your message.

You will need to pay particular attention to the elements of style that you have studied.  Your project must also have a cohesive theme, and you need to make sure that your use of media furthers the goals of the project. In other words: images, sounds, hyperlinks, etc. are not decorative. They contribute meaningfully to the pedagogical goals.

Dangers of PowerPoint  

Read these two articles about PowerPoint and participate in an online discussion on our Google Group:

PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte

When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom by Jeffrey R. Young

http://groups.google.com/group/icc523

Discussion question about PPT & problems with tech in the classroom :

Post at least one initial comment on each of the articles as well as a post about how you see your own ise of PowerPoint in the classroom. Also respond to at least 3 other posts.