Week Four- PowerPoint Presentation

Since I am not a teacher yet I created a PowerPoint and showed it to my own children. I wanted it to be something that would create their attention. I took in consideration that all three have different interests and I wanted to make it fun. I made a game of sorts on PowerPoint. I added pictures of their favorite things so they would remember the pictures. The first slide had 3 pictures on it. A car, Taylor swift and SpongeBob. After showing the slide to them I asked them to remember the pictures. The next slide I still had 3 pictures except I changed the Taylor swift picture to one of Justin Bieber. After showing them the second slide I asked them to tell me which picture was different. I asked each child individually. They got all got the answer correct. The 3^rd and 4^th slides progressed to having 4 pictures with one picture different on the second slide. We continued this until we got up to 8 pictures. The last 2 slides had 2 pictures that were different.  I noticed during this exercise that as the slides progress it was harder for them to recognize which pictures where different. I think it also got more exciting though. They really had a lot of fun doing this. I could see them excited when they figured it out each slide. Who new mom’s schoolwork could be so much fun?

I am proud of this idea for the presentation because I needed something that would be fun but also something educational that I can use in the future with students. The point of the pictures was to give them a little brainteaser. Brainteaser’s opens our minds and stimulate our excitement for learning more! I think that for my kids as a fun brain teasing game it was an excellent idea. Using pictures they were familiar with the subjects helped with their memorization and got them excited to see new and exciting pictures of their favorite people and characters. If I use this idea in the future in a classroom I think I would change a few things about the presentation. I may add some more depth into the game by asking questions about the differences in the slides. Like how many pictures are the same? How many pictures are different? What picture do you like the most and why? Etc… I would also add more differences as the slides progressed. After the 8 slides they were left with wanting more so I would also create more slides.