Product
2 PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines for PPA: November 29, 2004
Rationale: Product 1 involved developing a TIPS
PPA 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 relates to a social problem (e.g., global warming,
terrorism) or a public policy issue (e.g., Should
Congress ban cloning? or Should
2. PPA Objective:
Determine your objective in relation to which PPA step(s) will be your
focus: (e.g., students will research
Internet articles for the causes of global warming; developing alternative
policies to invading Iraq and determining the effectiveness and feasibility of
each alternative; a cost-benefit analysis of banning cloning; a Prince System
analysis (January’s workshop) of banning cloning)
3. Resources: If you have little knowledge of PowerPoint,
go to the tutorial on the TIPS website at http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
or http://www.actden.com/pp/ These sites can
also show experienced users how to add images and charts or add motion or
sound. Also, your staff developers are
offering after school workshops where you can receive individual help and be
paid while you learn.
4. PowerPoint Creation:
Depending on which PPA step(s) you selected as your lesson objective,
your goal is to create a PowerPoint that organizes and structures the preceding
information into appealing, interesting PowerPoint slides (minimum of seven
slides). Include a hyperlink to the
PPA. Perhaps some of the slides may include questions to involve student
responses. Some slides may contain
charts or graphs of evidence of the problem (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 (one of the PPA steps). 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.