I'm sure you know by now that our interactive teaching software, DyKnow Vision, has a PowerPoint Add-In. I think this is a great tool, especially for educators who already use PowerPoint in their classes.I'll be honest: I'm not a huge fan of PowerPoint. In my experience, PowerPoint wasn't used to necessarily make powerful points. It was used more to rehash everything I'd read about in the text. Often times, I was able to access the presentation beforehand with our school management software (an LMS to be exact). I'd print them out, and then take notes on the side with anything else the professor would say that seemed important.
Nothing to me in this situation was engaging or interactive. It was the teacher talking at us (that's right, I wrote "at") and us trying to write down as much as possible.
I do, however, like the PowerPoint Add-In for DyKnow. Why you may ask?
- PowerPoint isn't the actual mode of presentation. It's DyKnow. And with DyKnow you get interaction, collaboration and, hopefully, some engagement during class.
- The embedded polling tool is fantastic. Now, teachers can prepare questions for this student response tool while they prepare for class. With one click of a button the question for understand is sent out to the student computers for them to answer.
- Clarity. Now, when you convert from PowerPoint to DyKnow all of the text, links and images remain "live." It's no longer a static image. Everything is edit-able and move-able. Which means more flexibility during class with last minute changes.
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