A shortcut to PowerPoint!
January 21, 2009
Maybe Microsoft’s PowerPoint is one of the easier tools out there for bringing multimedia into the classroom, but it is still time consuming. In the chaos of the school year, few of us find the time to develop text, search for images, or download audio to create the kinds of multimedia presentations that can turn a mediocre lesson into an engaging, big-screen event.
Luckily, the website Pete’s PowerPoint Station offers literally hundreds of free PowerPoint presentations on academic subjects ranging from plants to government, from nutrition to ABCs. Once you download a presentation, you can easily change the order of the slides, edit the text, or change the images. In fact, if you or your students are new to the PowerPoint application, it may be more fun to learn the program’s functions by editing an existing presentation than by starting with a blank template. Editing might not be optional in some cases: the available presentations vary significantly in age-appropriateness, content, and (ahem) quality. Pete’s PowerPoint Station also offers links to related websites for students to use, but its real strength lies in the range of already-prepared PowerPoint presentations that will spice up your existing materials.
With Black History Month just ahead, I am off to choose from among the 15 already-prepared PowerPoint presentations to bring some new imagery and information to me and my students. – ABBY MARTIN
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