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A paragraph on what you feel are the biggest advantages and disadvantages of using presentation software in the K-12 classroom.

Large amounts of teachers today know their way around the Presentation software such as PowerPoint. These different presentation software systems allow for a wonderful and interactive type of learning to occur. Teachers can include videos, and pictures, and podcasts. These many different things provide visual stimulation. They can actually get the students to feel more connected. A lot of students are actually visual and audio learners so if you can incorporate both types of medias when you are teaching you can increase comprehension.

A paragraph on how you might use PowerPoint to support student learning at each knowledge dimension in a particular lesson. Be explicit in your example! Use Chapter 5 and online resources.

PowerPoint can support interactivity learning. This means that students who read something in one place, can then connect (make connections) to that same information in another way. This is ESPECIALLY important in learning. If students aren't able to make connections to the material in more than one way, they will have trouble remembering. Powerpoint can give a face to people read about in a textbook, a youtube.com video included in the powerpoint can give them a feeling for a situation or conflict read about. If a student is learning about the civil war and they can't connect to it, a powerpoint including pictures of the battlefields, maps, and a movie clip can put it into a perspective that they can actually understand.

A paragraph on an issue related to educational technology that now interests you. You may provide information, ask questions, include links, etc.

Educational technology is something that I wonder about it actually being up to date. Literally programs are now outdated within two years of their creation. How do educational technology classes and even teachers outside of these classes manage to keep up? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY Check this out to understand what I mean