I was excited when I read this assignment to try Power Point again. I really have not used it in a while. Due to the fact that we now have Promethean Boards in our rooms I spend a lot of time developing flip charts right in Active Inspire. We have our PALS reading test coming up for our students in the next few weeks so I decided to develop a presentation on rhyming. I broke it up into two sections. Part one teaches about rhyming words and in part two they get to practice rhyming. My kindergartners would not sit for a 50 page slide show so it made sense to me to break it into two sections that could be taught over two days. I know that my kids always need to release some energy before I have them sit for any extended period of time so I included two videos at the beginning that they can dance to. I then used Jing to import pages from one of my students favorite series "Llama Llama" these books have tons of rhymes. I have also included two kinds of practice one where they circle the pictures that rhyme and one where they make their own rhyming words based on particular endings. When I use this in my own classroom I plan on importing it into Active Inspire so the students would be able to circle and write in the presentation. I also read the blog and the article that was assigned for this assignment. They left me a little confused. However the think the overall message is keep things simple. You never want people to have to read too much. When you make a PowerPoint you have to do the talking. I really tried to do my best of this PowerPoint to make it usable in my own classroom. I would love to get better at creating lessons for my Promethean Board. I think this assignment encouraged us to "Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning" and "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership." I can see these types of lessons as a way to introduce many interesting topics to my students.
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