Presentations for future classroom

This week I learned more about how to use technology to prepare for the presentation. Most of the teachers love to use powerpoint for their presentations because it is a easy way to show the information to the students. Today, the teacher showed us the two different style of the powerpoint presentations. I realized that if the teacher makes a creative powerpoint such as putting more pictures, making it colorful instead of only putting whole bunch of information, it will help the students to focus and think of the questions instead of only copying the information from the powerpoint. I checked out some websites about some ideas for making a creative powerpoint. Here are some ideas:

• Use catchy images and slides instead of full paragraphs and bullet points
• Use metaphor in PowerPoint
• Use quotations and cite the authors
• Use representative charts
• Make an exercise for your audience
• Make a demonstration
• Ask for collaboration, generate interaction between the audience
  
  Source: http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/articles/create-better-presentations-using-creative-ideas/
  
  I really like the idea to put some more pictures that related to the topic. Generally, students will pay more attention if there are more pictures than words. I remembered when the teacher was using the powerpoint at class, I would either copying or staring at the screen. Teaching will be more effective if the students think more instead of only reading and copying from the powerpoint.