Product
2 PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines for CONLAW:
DEADLINE:
November 29, 2004
Rationale: Product 1 involved developing a TIPS CompuLEGAL WebQuest of an in-depth lesson. However, to integrate TIPS through technology
on a regular basis, PowerPoint may be more expedient and less time consuming
for it provides the teacher who used to fill up blackboards or create numerous
transparencies with a much better organizational tool for conducting a lesson. PowerPoint permits a teacher to present
information through text, charts,
clip art, music and narration, video clips, and links to web pages.
Guidelines: 1. Topic: Select a topic from your
course content that could be related to a U.S. Supreme Court case on speech,
press, religion, equal protection
etc.
2. CompuLEGAL Objective: Determine your objective in relation
to which CompuLEGAL Method (1=actual historical cases; 2=real or hypotheticals not in case library) and what you
specifically want students to learn regarding the case(s).
3. Resources: If you have little knowledge of PowerPoint,
go to the tutorials on the TIPS website at http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
or http://www.actden.com/pp/ Also, your staff developers are offering
after school workshops where you can receive individual help and be paid while
you learn.
4. PowerPoint Creation:
Your goal is to create a PowerPoint that organizes and structures
information related to the topic and case(s) into an interesting PowerPoint slides (minimum
of seven slides). Include a
hyperlink to the specific case(s).
Perhaps some of the slides may include questions to involve student
responses. Some slides may contain links
to other sites re: the case background.
(In so doing, you are modeling for your students what they will be asked
to do in Product 3 in which they have to create a PowerPoint).
Suggestions: 1. Technology integration, not an add-on. Select a topic that you would normally teach although perhaps from a somewhat different perspective. Then, you will not view this as an add-on or burden to your curriculum but as a way of improving how you teach.
2. Be creative. If you have already used PowerPoint, learn some new PowerPoint features from the tutorial or from the staff developers.
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