Working with PowerPoint

This was another productive day as I began to design yet another unexplored technology tool, PowerPoint. Although, I have required a PowerPoint presentation from my students for years as an exiting collaborative learning activity, I had never actually worked on one myself. This was a satisfying accomplishment to explore the templates, coloring and fonts and to finally choose the right one that will also reflect my sense of style and what I have learned about the purpose and content of a PowerPoint presentation. I kept in mind that it is used as a guide to enhance and assist the audience through your talk. I followed Brittanie's advice that I must tell the audience what I will tell them. Then tell them and conclude. Everyone suggested to 'keep it simple' yet interesting, entertaining and informative. Brittanie also suggested to make sure I have the content. Do I know what I want to talk about? Do I know where to start and what my logical development plan will contain? Do I have a conclusion? Oh..no...this is turning out like a paper! It became a challenge to 'keep it simple' while including the pertinent information that will reflect my presentation on the 'wiki'. After working with a pad and pencil and back and forth selecting slides, positioning text and pictures, as a first attempt, I felt satisfied. I now want to place a few links that will take me to my wiki during my presentation.