Week 6 : Large class and Interactive Power Point Presentation

Readings on Week 6 were about Technology Tools for Creating Student-Centered Classes, which included large Classes. I read the workshop handout written by Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw: the higher education development Project, which was about Teaching Large Classes II - Enhancing Learning by Engaging Students. It was about the  problems with large lecture-style classes, the definition of teaching and learning, Enhancing lecture classes which collaboration in the form of small group activities work well with.  Then I have learnt about Interactive PowerPoint Presentation. I had never known or learnt before that one can convert a power point to an interactive presentation that can be viewed online and on-demand by students, colleagues, peers, and administrators. 

The jasmine rice fields in Chumphonburi/Surin

The Task Donna  set  for Yellow group is to create one the Interactive Power Point  which can be a ConcepTest, QuickWrite, hyperlinks/jumps to other sections of the PPT show based on student responses, blank slides to shift attention, a game, a quiz, think-pair-share,  Jeopardy game or interactive story, etc. by using information from the optional readings.  Knowing myself that I am not good at this, I visited several websites and watched  slide shows on youtube about the instruction and some advice of the experts of creating something on the list and decided to create a quiz which seems not too complicated much for me and that I can use it to promote about my province. So I did visit the following websites-http://www.adobeforacademics.com/tutorials/527, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVpquBe7auQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssuI0mY6RI,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdzdPCHqD5w. I made my first quiz by using the Interactive powerpoint on Windows10 at home and uploaded it to the Yellowgroup Wiki.  

To be sure that my Quiz was still there, I accessed the Webskills Online Course again from my school and found that it works well on window7 too.  I only have to wait for the pointing sign (hand) appeared before clicking. Wow! I like it a lot. This tool will be used along with the  WebQuests from Week5 on my project report too. Thank you a lot to the Webskills team for introducing this to us.

Learning online with Webskill Course has made me miss the quotes- "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Lao-Tsu,  "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -Norman Vincent Peale. So just start, then we will learn. 

That was the adventure of mine on Week 6.

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