Using PowerPoint in the Classroom

Presenting information using PowerPoint can be an exciting way to extend information to students using a variety of resources.  PowerPoints have manty obvious advantages such as presenting information to students in a way that can be meaningful to them, saving the powerpoint to catch up students who were absent and printing out the slides so the students can follow along.  What takes using a PowerPoint to the next level is what other types of media you can incorporate into the presentation.  Using PowerPoint alone can become boring and repetitive in itself. As a teacher, you should try to incorporate video clips, sound clips, photographs, animations and links to other useful websites.  Using PowerPoint is the foundation of making a technology integrated lecture, but to have an effective technology integrated lesson, you have to take advantage of all the different ways to incorporate multimedia.