Educ 5413 - Teaching with Technology Summer 2005: Dr. Helen Mongan-Rallis

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Day 3: Teaching with Multimedia

Objectives:

• Critically analyze the use of PowerPoint, Inspiration and other media as teaching and learning tools and
• Develop strategies for our own teaching and to guide student learning to avoid what McKenzie calls "PowerPointlessness." Examples (from McKenzie):
  • Teach our students to make effective use of cluster diagrams to map out the complexity issues and questions
  • Once students have maps, teach them to weigh the consequences of their choices
• As a result of today's class, plan and teach a lesson using a multimedia application (such as PowerPoint) as a tool to enhance your lesson. (see Multimedia Teaching Assignment Guidelines)

Agenda:

1. Consider this quote
2. Review McKenzie's articles: Scoring with PowerPoint and Beyond Information Power
3. Role Play: The Worst Teaching with PowerPoint
4. Analysis of role play --> listing of Top 10 Things To Avoid when Teaching With PowerPoint
5. Development of beginning rubric for evaluating a lesson taught with PowerPoint as an instructional tool
6. Discussion of teaching with PowerPoint assignment for tomorrow
7. Example of Inspiration as an alternative to PowerPoint
8. How to teach students to use PowerPoint and other multimedia:
   1. Review: Multimedia Mania: Look at the judges' rubric and the student checklist
   2. Using rubrics to guide student projects
9. Using games as teaching & learning tools:
   1. Jeopardy example
   2. Who wants to be a millionaire example
   3. Examples of Jeopardy Games
   4. Matching game
   5. Interactive games (try out pre-made games)
   6. Try your own search: share finding

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