What Do I Think Of PowerPoint?

I think PowerPoint is only sometimes used in a good manner. Personally if a class is based purely on a PowerPoint presentation I easily lose track and start staring at the screen without finding a meaning in it. However it can be used well for some things such as quizzes for instance. PowerPoint allows you to relate every little piece of media and even the color of your presentation to the subject it relates to. I would probably keep everything that PowerPoint has to offer and not change much because I don’t think it’s the software that can limit your teaching in class but its how you present it. A bunch of pictures with two hours of talking is boring. Though reading off a screen for the same amount of time can also bore the classroom. I have witnessed how PowerPoint can limit the way teachers present to you but then again I have seen a lot of good teaching come from it. If I was teaching a class I would be structure my presentation very carefully and present it to myself to make sure that it can be learned from. I would probably add little or not animation and keep everything short. I’d probably only use PowerPoint for a very limited detailed part of a subject because PowerPoint is too simple to cover the whole thing. Id would definitely put media in it and label it so the students are aware of what they are looking at. To me the presentation should also not have too much color and movement. A simple but well presented presentation can keep the students focused on the information and can’t keep them staring at all the movement happening on the screen. I would definitely use PowerPoint if I was presenting on a location or on a product. To me though, PowerPoint has shown its qualities in tutorials. It is very good software to use when teaching things step by step.