7 PowerPoints and Presentations

I didn’t know much about Bloom’s Taxonomy before this blog. It has six learning domains: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For the remembering domain, I could make one of my slides of the PowerPoint have basic facts that the students already have learned about the topic. This would help refresh their memory without overwhelming them with a bunch of new information. Next is understanding, so I could have them explain ideas or concepts in their own words. This would show me if they really understand the topic or not. The next domain is applying. To cover this in the PowerPoint, I would give an example on how the topic applies to the real world. I could then have the students come up with their own example. For the analyzing domain, I would have the students examine the new topic. There could be a slide explaining different concepts of the topic for students to analyze. For the evaluating domain, I would have a slide with the pros and cons of the topic. This includes weaknesses, advantages, comparing, and contrasting. For the last domain, creating, I would dedicate a slide directing students to create their own ideas about this topic. This includes projects, essays, etc.

According to chapter 4, one example of adaptive learning technology is talking spell-checkers. This supports learners because it reads aloud the misspelled word and then suggests a list or correctly spelled words for the student to choose from. This will help the student learn that they misspelled a word and learn the correct spelling. Recorded books are another example. This technology supports the students to learn and comprehend books better by hearing them than by listening. I have used recorded books in the past in classes. One challenge with using this is that not all students learn better by listening to the book. I personally found it difficult to understand the book when it was a voice recording, so this method didn’t work well for me.

This week’s assignment helped me learn how to make a class website. This will be very useful in my career because it will allow me to post assignments, announcements, and other information for parents and students. I like that this website allows a central location for students to find information. The only downside is the URL may be difficult for parents/students to remember. They also would have to type the URL in exactly to access the website. Next time I would add more photos into my website to make it more visually appealing for viewers. I’d also add more links to assignments for students.