PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. The program allows its user to incorporate text, images, sounds, graphs, and more into each slide to create a neat and professional presentation. PowerPoint is easy to use and is an extremely effective way to organize information to make a meaningful and profound impact on its viewers. Because of this ability, the program is widely used by people in the business world, educators, students, and trainers.

In my classroom, PowerPoint will be used as a useful tool. While a typical math class usual involves a chalkboard and chalk, a PowerPoint can be very helpful to provide a neater way for the students to take notes. It not only makes it easier for the teacher, since he does not have to re-write the same lesson over again four times in the same day, but also makes it easier for the students to read and place sequentially in their notes. Because the same PowerPoint could be used from one class to the next, it would also force uniformity of the examples and definitions present in each students' notes. This is helpful for the teacher so he knows exactly what was covered and that it was done in all classes. PowerPoint would also be helpful in my future classes when teaching students with learning disabilities. Instead of looking at a full chalkboard of writing and being overwhelmed or getting lost, the children would only be able to focus on one slide at a time. The teacher could control exactly where their attention is being directed by limiting how much information they could see at any given time. These are just a few ways that PowerPoint could be used as a useful tool in my future math classroom.