Academic Software: PowerPoint as an Authoring System
As I read through chapter 6, I was reminded of one of my favorite things to do with PowerPoint – using hyperlinks to create interactive tutorials or quizzes.
With a little extra time spent planning a PowerPoint, you can create buttons to represent multiple choice answers for a quiz or create a tutorial that gives immediate feedback to the user letting them know if they have chosen a correct answer or not. I also enjoy creating short timed quizzes for my math students. I include all of the instructions within the PowerPoint as well as the fact that they will have 2 minutes per question or 5 minutes to do a multi-step problem and then let the PowerPoint do all of the work for me by using rehearsed timings. I usually make the 1st slide with a warning stating that a quiz will begin at the tardy bell. This is a great way to get the students settled in quickly.
I have also created Jeopardy simulations. I split the class into 3 or 4 small groups and play “Team Jeopardy”. This also requires the use of hyperlinks that jump back to the Jeopardy “money board” after each question has been attempted.
I even used PowerPoint to create a tutorial to train new teachers in the use our high school administrative software where we keep our lesson plans and grades and publish them to the internet. I included what I called “Check Points” throughout the tutorial that were actually small interactive quizzes covering the most recent skill addressed. It worked quite well!
Well, I think I will go create a small quiz for my Calculus class using hyperlinks and timings in PowerPoint.
With a little extra time spent planning a PowerPoint, you can create buttons to represent multiple choice answers for a quiz or create a tutorial that gives immediate feedback to the user letting them know if they have chosen a correct answer or not. I also enjoy creating short timed quizzes for my math students. I include all of the instructions within the PowerPoint as well as the fact that they will have 2 minutes per question or 5 minutes to do a multi-step problem and then let the PowerPoint do all of the work for me by using rehearsed timings. I usually make the 1st slide with a warning stating that a quiz will begin at the tardy bell. This is a great way to get the students settled in quickly.
I have also created Jeopardy simulations. I split the class into 3 or 4 small groups and play “Team Jeopardy”. This also requires the use of hyperlinks that jump back to the Jeopardy “money board” after each question has been attempted.
I even used PowerPoint to create a tutorial to train new teachers in the use our high school administrative software where we keep our lesson plans and grades and publish them to the internet. I included what I called “Check Points” throughout the tutorial that were actually small interactive quizzes covering the most recent skill addressed. It worked quite well!
Well, I think I will go create a small quiz for my Calculus class using hyperlinks and timings in PowerPoint.
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