One of the most well known and basic presentation formats in schools today is PowerPoint. This can be a great learning tool and presentation mechanism, but how can you make it more fun for the students? There are of course several ways to spice up a PowerPoint a bit more. PowerPoints can be aided by several different tools and resources in order to further student learning. First the educator needs to understand that it never hurts to add more photos and videos into the presentation to visually aid in the students understanding of a topic. This does not have to happen by simply adding a hyperlink to a YouTube video. The teacher can actually embed videos and media straight into the PowerPoint. A great way to do this is to download RealPlayer from www.real.com. At this site you can download the RealPlayer for free. This program allows you to download YouTube videos or other media from the internet for free (as long as you have permission). Once you have the video downloaded you can convert it to the format you want with the RealPlayer converter that comes with the download. From there you can simply embed the video into your PowerPoint. I have embedded a video at the top of this blog that I have used on a PowerPoint presentation before. This particular video was from a presentation I made on Cuba. Another great resource that you can embed into your presentation in order to aid in student learning is an online polling program. This program allows students to answer questions posted in the presentation. The students answer these questions by texting in their answer to the presentation. The students' answers will then appear in the presentation. You find this program at www.polleverywhere.com. There are also many more presentation tools to add to PowerPoint out there on the internet. These are just a couple of them. Have fun exploring!
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