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>> Why are we using Power Point? Who can remind me what we talked about on Monday about why we use Power Point and what it is? Jonah?

>> So you can do a presentation with bullets and so you can talk without the audience reading everything that's on there, without them not paying attention to you and looking and reading the whole thing.

>> What do you mean by bullets? What's a bullet?

>> You put in the main points of the story.

>> Power Point is a tool to help you present your information. if you just type your whole paragraph up there then there is no point in you standing up there and presenting your information and then nobody will know that you've spent all of this time learning about, in this case, your event in the Civil Rights Movement.

>> The purpose of intruding technology in elementary school classroom is to prepare them for a world where technology is so important. It gives them an opportunity to express their thoughts in an organized and neat way. It gives them an opportunity to see learning through a different way and it accesses all different types of information. It's exciting, it's a different approach to finding information, it's an engaging way to start a lesson.

>> Your slide is about Rosa Parks. Should you have a picture from the march in Washington? You should have a slide about Rosa Parks, whether it's a picture of the bus boycott and people walking to work or to their homes instead of taking the bus or a picture of Rosa Parks. You're not going to have a picture that has nothing to do with your slide because your picture adds to the information that is on the slide.

>> I chose Power Point for this lesson because they are going to eventually present their event to the rest of the class and I did not want them up there reading their paragraphs. It wanted them to have learned about their event, written a paragraph, pulled out the important information so that they could then talk from those bullets, so that they had to present, they had to work on their presenting skills. In front of them they had copies of the directions and the directions had pictures of what screen would appear as they were creating each slide. After we modeled the process then I broke the class up and five children began on laptops while the rest of the children began creating their illustrations and then as students finished we rotated them through the laptops and then both students that began on the laptops could go back and work on their illustration.

>> [Inaudible] how do you make another bullet?

>> These are [inaudible] that I'm --

>> You just go to the --

>> [Inaudible] and you just go down --

>> And then you keep writing and then the bullet will cover.

>> [inaudible]

>> Technology has helped us in the writing process. From a content prospective I wanted them to be able to pull out the important information from their paragraph. Children are learning how to pull out the big idea from their paragraph and create bullets to put on a Power Point slide. If you can't find the big idea in your paragraph then there's a problem with the writing from a technology perspective, I wanted them to be able to create a slide. I also wanted them to be able to decide what picture fits each slide.

>> We're going to create a Power Point slide so that we can, as a basis for our presentation that we're going to do later this week, you're going to present this information to the class so you want to have a good clear Power Point slide so that your classmates get the main ideas of each of these events that you've researched.

>> My approach to integrating technology in the classroom is to try to make it not an extra thing that I have to do. You know, I really try to make sure that it's integrated with whatever lesson I'm doing and it is enhancing the learning, and it's not an add-on. If you try to force it in there you end up spending way more time than necessary just to teach the same concept. For this particular project I think it was important because the images are a big piece of this. Teaching about the Civil Rights Movement through using Power Point we're teaching them how to do oral presentation more effectively.

>> Remember and you could say, go to fill.

>> When you say go to fill actually and it will be smaller.

>> They worked on this trying to shorten some sentences as bullets.

>> How do you get a bullet?

>> You have to go back up to the end of the last thing, segregation. Click right after the end of segregation.

>> [Inaudible] click [inaudible] go down to your writing, click the end of the words and now hit return.

>> I'm doing.

>> And if you start typing right now it will be a new bullet.

>> Just the back space [inaudible]

>> Okay well that, just delete that.

>> I can't.

>> Okay you can do that, that works. Okay. Good, good job Sam.

>> I think it's important for elementary school kids because they're at that formative stage where it's almost like learning a new language in a way. The best time for kids to learn a new language is when they're youngest. You know, you can teach kids a couple languages if you start really early and I feel like computer literacy is kind of a language of its own. Because this was a new skill that I was teaching the kids and a new way of doing Power Point, I found it much more effective to have the kids working in pairs and everybody with a computer in front of them rather than trying to do it in a group.

>> Children learning how to use technology is preparing them for a world where technology is used on a daily basis. It's preparing them for middle school where they will be expected to created Power Point presentations or use the internet to find information and they will be able to help other students who have not had as much experience with technology. So they're learning through the technology and then they're helping others learn through it as well.

How old were you when you first used PowerPoint during a presentation? In this video, watch the methods that Miss DiFusco and Mr. Mann use to introduce PowerPoint to their students. Notice how the technology is integrated with the curriculum and how it shapes the way that students learn.

Think back to when you first used PowerPoint. What skills did you need before you were able to learn the program? What type of scaffolding do you think younger students might need to help them learn a program such as PowerPoint?

In the video, the teachers taught the computer skills related to PowerPoint in the context of a social studies lesson on civil rights. In what ways was the content integrated? What else might you do as a teacher to integrate technology with other subjects?