Week 3 PowerPoint

Week 3
What is the purpose of using PowerPoint?

PowerPoint is useful for showing pictures and it is similar to a story book illustrated with picture cards. Therefore, it is an effective learning tool for visual learners. When I was teaching Geography, PowerPoint was the most effective tool to show pictures of all over the world. There were textbooks that had these pictures but they were too small to see and not good quality. My classroom had a big screen and projector for using PowerPoint and it worked well. Students were amazed by how beautiful the pictures of Mt.Everest were. It follows from what has been said thus far that PowerPoint is closely connected to visual senses.

Pedagogy: Those pedagogies as below can fit in using PowerPoint as a learning tool;
Creating, imagining,
PowerPoint can show students many pictures so it is easy to make students imagine the situation. In my case, in Geography class, students did not know how tall Mt. Everest was and when I taught the height in km, they could not imagine the height. Therefore, I showed a picture of Mt.Everest and a normal person who is standing in front of the mountain. Then students imagined how tall it is in their mind.


The purpose of using PowerPoint: It is the best study tool for visual learners and students who do not speak English as a first language. It is easy to find out what the class is studying about from pictures. Pictures have a strong effect on visual learner's brains. As English is a second language for me, PowerPoint is an easy way to find out which topics we are studying. Sometimes lecturers give me the topic in the PowerPoint and I can print the slides out and then use it as a notebook. I can add more information on the PowerPoint handouts.