My TPACK Journey

Checkout my TPACK Journey through my Google Slides presentation! A great way to finish a presentation with a group or on your own! Google Slides offers similar features to Microsoft PowerPoint but includes several different choices for fonts and presentation templates!


 

After creating my eBook, I learned how to use my transferable skills from Microsoft PowerPoint to Google Slides. Though Google Slides is different, the similarities between the two allowed me too easily navigate and explore Google Slides. My students should be familiar with using PowerPoint, thus, they should be able to navigate through the new program easily as well. Having the word count for each slide was an excellent way to not only ensure the slides were not too crowded, and easily legible, but it also ensures students are summarizing the content. This is an excellent way to assess summarization and presentation skills.

By incorporating a quick, on-going eBook into the classroom, teachers can do an on-going assessment and students will produce a presentation they are proud of and can use for review in the future. As discussed above, creating slides forces students to summarize the content which connects directly to the Language curriculum. Additionally, the presentation as a whole needs to be grammatically correct, have proper sentence structure, correct links/citations and media text which also connects to the Language curriculum. Furthermore, students can use this presentation as a means of review for a unit test. The eBook can link to a variety of strands depending on the topic chosen, which makes its very interdisciplinary and a useful tool in the classroom. 

I believe that students learn best through exploration. If I was introducing this eBook to my students, I would give them some instruction online and have them complete the task by following the instructions. If students run into problems, I would encourage them to seek help from a peer rather than me as the teacher immediately. Every week we could explore a new concept in the eBook and students would be given time in class to use this concept and build a slide. Finally, I would have students in pairs create a new eBook without instructions. This would force students to look back on their previous experiences and work collaboratively to create a final presentation. By incorporating the eBook into the classroom, students are learning problem-solving, collaboration, communication, technology and organizational skills which are all transferable to other subject areas and real-world scenarios.