If you click the title of this post you will go to the innovations site and can see all the PowerPoint files for the presentations this year.
It is a snapshot of where we are this year not only in how we use PowerPoint but also what teachers are interested in.
Check it out!
Thoughts?
John
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Getting text into speaker notes
Now we know not to put much text on a slide--just one complete sentence (if you have any text on it at all) and the sentence should be short.
But we need to get text into the speaker notes so what is the best way to do that?
You can type it in.
You can use the student solution: copy and paste.
You can talk and let the computer type it in for you. If you have Windows Vista or 7 then it comes with a very good speech recognition program. It is superb at allowing you to control your computer and pretty good at entering text. And it gets better the more training you do.
You have to teach the program to understand the way you talk. And you have to learn how to use the program.
Even better than Windows speech recognition is Dragon Naturally Speaking. Clicking the title of this post will take you to the New York Times review by David Pogue.
Dragon is not free (the price has fallen since it came out) but there is an academic discount for teachers and students. It is much better at entering text. And you still have to learn it and teach it your voice.
However you enter your speaker notes, ideally you will enter your thoughts and not just what the textbook says. This will give students a second way of looking at the material.
Thoughts?
John
But we need to get text into the speaker notes so what is the best way to do that?
You can type it in.
You can use the student solution: copy and paste.
You can talk and let the computer type it in for you. If you have Windows Vista or 7 then it comes with a very good speech recognition program. It is superb at allowing you to control your computer and pretty good at entering text. And it gets better the more training you do.
You have to teach the program to understand the way you talk. And you have to learn how to use the program.
Even better than Windows speech recognition is Dragon Naturally Speaking. Clicking the title of this post will take you to the New York Times review by David Pogue.
Dragon is not free (the price has fallen since it came out) but there is an academic discount for teachers and students. It is much better at entering text. And you still have to learn it and teach it your voice.
However you enter your speaker notes, ideally you will enter your thoughts and not just what the textbook says. This will give students a second way of looking at the material.
Thoughts?
John
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