Supporting Teaching by Creating Presentations

One of the characteristics of an effective teaching is clear presentations which benefit the students to grasp information easily, to understand as much information as possible, to retain information longer and to gain knowledge that is observable and measured and which address different styles of learning.

For creating a presentation, you should know first what do you want your students to learn. After deciding your exact goals, start doing the content which should be simple. Another important point is minimizing the opportunity for distraction by removing any irrelevant material such as music, sound effects, animations, and background images.


There are various types of presentations' tools that can make learning interesting and active


Jing

Easy to use screen capture software. Add visuals to documents, online conversations, and more.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Slide presentation software.

Keynote

Slide presentation software. (Mac only)

Flash

Creation of animation, interactive forms, games.

Camtasia

Screen video capture software. Record on screen activity; captioning.

Prezi

Live and on web presentations.

OmniOutliner

Flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.

iStockphoto

Member-generated image and design community with over 4 million photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files.

Flickr

Online photo management and sharing application.

SlideShare

Web-based slide sharing application.

LecShare

Creates accessible PowerPoint files. LecShare Pro has audio/video capabilities for $20 upgrade.



One of my presentations using prezi

Reflection

I believe that for creating an effective learning environment, a teacher can use presentations in which he\she use variety of ways to do so . As we have discussed at the lectures, much attention should be paid to the font, color contrast, media used and many other things that might affect students learning. In this course, presentations were widely used to convey the message of the integration of technology and education and they worked effectively.