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No more Death by PowerPoint!
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PowerPoint has become a well known staple within the technological community, aiding presentations with slides. With such large advancements in technology there are many new programs and systems I believe that allow presenters to convey information in a much more fun but still materialistic manner.
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I agree that PowerPoint needs to be left behind as any audience whether that be students, teachers etc, needs to be engaged to pay attention and learn. PowerPoints common abilities for presentations include bullet points and text. To affectively communicate information there needs to be more features that allow more creativity such as visual aids, thinking outside the box and to keep the presentation moving forward, these ideas will help the presenter occupy viewers. (The Pincus Group, 2015).
Whilst researching, I have found evidence which proves education needs to move past PowerPoint. (Miller, 2015, Learning from Powerpoint) states more interactive features such as quizzes helps students to learn material as it is a “passive learning approach”. Taking advantage of the amount of flexibility the online environment gives to students makes more options available to control how quickly they work through the material. (Miller, 2015, Learning from Powerpoint).
While attending Comm140 lectures at Australian Catholic University I have learn t that there are so many other methods of presenting that are more captivating then the ordinary PowerPoint. Powtoon is a creative web based software that allows individuals to create a multi-modal presentation. Powtoon enables users to import external images music and even voice-overs, you can manipulate these features to create cartoons which will be designed to present information (Forbes, 2014). I am confident that this technology works much better than PowerPoint as it lacks all the features that pattern can provide such as animation. Although PowerPoint does possess some innovative attributes being shapes and text design, it cannot keep up with modern day technology demands. It is proven that children’s learning can be greatly impacted due to how the information is portrayed. Therefore using Visual forms is known to enhance study (Kouyoumdjin, 2012).
References
The Pincus Group. (2015). Leaving PowerPoint Behind: No, You Don’t HAVE To Use It. [online] Available at: http://www.thepincusgroup.com/leaving-powerpoint-behind-no-dont-use/ [Accessed 11 Sep. 2017].
Miller, M. (2015). Learning from PowerPoint: is it time for teachers to move on?. [online] The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/learning-from-powerpoint-is-it-time-for-teachers-to-move-on-45146 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2017].
Forbes, C. (2014). Free Web-based tools for information literacy instruction. Library Hi Tech News, 31(10), 1 – 5.
Kouyoumdjian, H. (2012). Learning Through Visuals. [online] Psychology Today. Available at: https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-psyched/201207/learning-through-visuals%3famp [Accessed 12 Sep. 2017].
