After they had each read several books, they chose one author whose work they had enjoyed reading, researched the author, and created a PowerPoint presentation on their author to present to their class. Students will create a Power Point presentation about their author. Students will present their Power Point presentation to the class. Technology Students learned the basics of Power Point in computer class now they will apply it to create a presentation for their class. Students need practice searching the Internet for specific topics.
Students can always use practice giving presentations.
Create Power Point tutorial in Macromedia Flash and publish it on the Web so students can be reintroduced to Power Point, which they learned last semester. It will be available to them throughout the project. Web evaluation CD-ROM will be presented to students before they start their searches. Create Building and Giving Power Point Presentations handout. I let the students research the Web on their own, and they then created a slide in their PowerPoint presentation where they included citations for the resources they used.