Sally's Powerpoint Reflection

Sally's use of Powerpoint appears as though her students are engaged. I really liked the idea of hyperlinking a word document and writing students' sentences. While they are drawing a picture of their moms, she prints out the responses and students' glue them on their pictures. If I were to use powerpoint, I would like for my students' to be fully engaged with activities that allows them to be interactive with the Powerpoint. My goal is not for the powerpoint to just be a presentation where the students are passive. I like the idea of creating hyperlinks to other web sites where additional information on the subject of discussion are available. One thing that I don't like about Powerpoint is that it will allow for only a certain amount of memory to be used. I will take Sally's advice and rather than scanning images go directly to a website that contains the same info. When my students and I use our projector to check out the Anchorage Daily News site, they tend to pay more attention and they are more verbal during our discussions. When I do lectures without the projector, they usually tend to become easily bored and/or distracted.  From this class, I would like to become an expert using Powerpoint. I know it takes a lot of time to put together a lesson, but in the end I believe it will be well worth it.