Blog #7

I actually had a lot of fun working with the PowerPoint 2 assignment. I learned much more than I already knew about this program prior to tackling it. I can now see how easy creating PowerPoints for teachers is. I have learned how to use the navigation tools to make it easier for the student to navigate around the slides. I did my PowerPoint in a quiz form. If the student got a question correct, they could click the next button. However, if they got it wrong, I would also put the back button to navigate them back to the previous slide to answer the question again.

Some peripherals in which I would use in my classroom would be printers and scanners. I would use printers because many times students may need to print out an assignment for class. As the teacher, I may need to print handouts for students during class. Also, I know sometimes students' printers don't work at home or they might not have on so having on in class may make it easier on them. Having scanners would be beneficial for copying things such as homework, assignments, syllabi, or project overviews for students. Also I believe that disk drives may be good for classrooms in order for students to transport their homework files to the teachers.

Skills in which I have acquired in the past week would definitely be the skills expressed in the PowerPoint 2 assignment. Before this assignment I was pretty familiar with PowerPoint, but this tasks developed my skills even further. I believe that in my future of my educational career, using navigational tools in PowerPoint will really help when performing projects in which I will have to use this program. Also, anytime in which I will have to create a practice test or quiz for class, using the navigation tools and buttons on PowerPoint will definitely be useful.