Reflective Synopsis on eLearning: PowerPoint Presentations
The final ICT to be analysed is the PowerPoint presentation. This tool allows teachers or students to create a kind of multimodal slideshow which can be interactive or non-interactive, linear or non-linear. Creating a PowerPoint presentation is a great way for students to transform their learning and share it with others. Viewing PowerPoint presentations made by a teacher or other students is particularly engaging and extends student learning far beyond the traditional blackboard, (See Appendix 1 - PowerPoint Presentations).
Again, the multimodality of a PowerPoint presentation is supportive of student learning (Cisco, 2008) and allows several of the multiple intelligences (Gardner, 1983; 1993) to be catered towards, in particular the visual and auditory intelligences. If a PowerPoint presentation is interactive, for example it could include a multiple choice quiz, the behaviourist learning theory (Pavlov, 1903 )is supported as students learn which responses they choose are correct.
Again, the multimodality of a PowerPoint presentation is supportive of student learning (Cisco, 2008) and allows several of the multiple intelligences (Gardner, 1983; 1993) to be catered towards, in particular the visual and auditory intelligences. If a PowerPoint presentation is interactive, for example it could include a multiple choice quiz, the behaviourist learning theory (Pavlov, 1903 )is supported as students learn which responses they choose are correct.
