Fifth

Today we made multimedia presentations. Basically mine was a PowerPoint presentation with images and hyperlinks and text and things, based on the Lorax by Dr Seuss. I'm pretty familiar with PowerPoint, having used it for many different presentations in the past, however I did learn a few things. The reason why multimedia presentations work well, is that they use animation, images, sound etc for emotional impact. I have seen many presentations where these things are added just because they can be, but don't really have much real purpose. However, when used well it can be really effective. One pet hate with PowerPoint presentations that I have seen in the past is clutteredness. Often a slide is overloaded with text or images or diagrams or a combination of these. Each slide should be short, to the point and then can be elaborated on during the presentation of the slides. Anyway, I think multimedia presentations done well could be really effective in the classroom, although can be quite time consuming to make. I guess if you were teaching the same year level and topics for a few years, you could gradually build up a resource base. They are pretty easy to make, pretty fun and exciting to use, but can take time to make. Would I use them? Possibly if I get the time.