Assignment #4

Last night I completed my PowerPoint Game for assignment #4. I use PowerPoint often in my classroom however I have never tried making a presentation with non-linear links, sounds, animations, or notes… so there was a lot for me to learn from this lesson and the tutorials!

My presentation is set up with the first few slides going over main concepts, followed by a non-linear multiple choice quiz to review. The final slide has external links to the internet for further exploration and review.

I am pleased with my final product but now that I am familiar with it I think I could do even better in the future. I plan to incorporate some of the new features I learned into my current presentations.

However, while I do see myself continuing to use PowerPoint and some of the additional features, I honestly do not see myself using it for the purpose of a review game as I did in this assignment. Our school has a program called Turning Point in which the program makes similar games. I find the Turning Point software to be easier/faster to use to make quizzes compared to this method! It is also more interactive for each student. I plan to research more into the features of the Turning Point technology and write about it for my Technology Review Wiki. I'll let you know once I have that completed.