PowerPoint Presentation Technology in Education

Voki - speaking

• Voki - speaking

• Google applications – reading, writing

• Create your own customized avatar.
• Change the appearance of the avatar, pick a background, and best of all, make it talk!
• You can add your voice by phone, microphone, or use text-to-speech to make it use a computerized voice.
• My message
• Student HW

• documents, presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, forms.
• Create surveys
• Participant view
• Results view

• A quick, easy way for students to complete and submit a homework assignment is with Google Docs.
• Teachers can share the link for the assignment so that students have a blank worksheet.
• Student HW
• They can complete it in G Docs, and then either save and share their own link with the teacher or email it back to their teacher. Of course that this means that students need to have Gmail accounts.

Wordle.net

• Wordle.net

• Great pre-reading activity

• Pre-reading activity AP French
• Select an AP level article
• Write 10-12 key words from the new text
• Place the students in small groups
• Ask them to elaborate on what the story might be about based on the “wordle”
• Ask them to anticipate the characters, the plot, the storyline or to make predictions