..heading in a new direction!

Wow, I must say I really am getting a lot from the forum and others input. Someone the other day said to make sure that when creating our first PowerPoint presentations that we choose a topic that we are already confident with. This was a GREAT learning for me. I know I should have realized this, but I was off and running with several ideas that would be whole new units. Really this is not a good idea. So with this advice I changed the direction that I was heading in and feel so much better.

Then I read about someone who is trying out in class presentations. Another very thoughtful idea, especially for someone who has not used PowerPoint very much.

A special thanks to those who put their thoughts into words in the forum or on their blogs. You have been VERY helpful!

I was not near a computer much to write on my blog over the weekend but I did a lot of thinking yesterday about simplifying my plan. I think I will take a topic as simple as "nouns" and create a PowerPoint presentation about it. Since thinking along these lines I have found several sites that would support this. I could include a podcast and a podcast game: which one of these is not a noun? I could also include a video from learn360 and some digital photos. This brings in the learning we have done throughout this course and would help students learn what nouns are using different modalities.

Now that I have a topic and am ready to add things I will "play" with PowerPoint for the rest of the week and see what I can achieve.