Digital+Stories+Using+Power+Point

For those of you who attended the 9 in 90 Minutes presentation at conference you will have seen some great ideas using Power Point. Using a variety of tools such as music, microphone, scanner, text, power point and camera we can very easily create digital stories and share them with our community via class wikis. To save re-inventing the wheel here are some links to what you can do including a template which has been created for our use and will be a good starting point for Years 1-4.

To access the junior reader template click here If you are not sure how to use some of the tools get some tips through your copy of 9 in 90 under Digital Storybooks - Putting it Together.

Using the above template I have created a very simple story about my pet pig Freddie. Click on Freddie to view it.

Spelling for Extension with PowerPoint/KeyNote (an activity I saw taking place) · Choose a word (or it can be given to student) · Find the meaning · Find Synonyms · Find Antonyms · What group does the word belong to e.g. noun, advert, adjective etc · Make a sentence using that word

Reading for New Entrants Using Power Point · Teacher to make up slides with one word on it e.g. cat · Teacher to voice the word · Teacher to set word to sound after ?? seconds (5?) · Student has up to five ? seconds to say the word <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Different sets of slide shows made up for different abilities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Found to work very well