![]() Reflection Question: Chapter 5, Prompt 2 Question Part 1 Recall a class where presentation software, such as PowerPoint, was used. Did you enjoy the experience? Was it easy to take notes? Did you stay focused on the presentation, or did your attention drift into other thoughts? Could the presentation have been modified to make it more interactive, more interesting? How? I took many classes in my undergraduate studies where PowerPoint was used. Some teachers excelled at using these and they were engaging and crucial to the success of the class. In particular, I took a finance class that had pretty complicated formulas and my teacher for that class used PowerPoint as a method to walk us through the problem-solving steps. We worked along with the presentation to solve the problem and it was very interactive, educational and engaging. I had a real estate class however, that was basically the PowerPoint version of the book and the slides were not engaging, the class was not interactive and I had a lot of trouble staying focused on the material and engaged. I would often have to go back after the class and basically teach myself the material using a combination of YouTube video’s, Khan academy and the text book. I think PowerPoint presentations can be a great asset to learning if used in an engaging manner or to support what is being taught, but not as a stand alone (teach from the slides only) manner. ![]() Question Part 2 Select a grade level and subject matter that you would most want to teach. How you would use three different types of academic software to teach a specific topic. Explain why you selected these three academic software packages. I would love to someday teach project management at a community college. The academic software that I would use to teach this course would include Airtable, Excel and Microsoft Teams. Airtable: I would use Airtable (Productivity Suite), Excel, and Quizlet for this class. Airtable is a delightful cloud collaboration project management software with multiple uses and is a good starting point for the project management student. It is intuitive, and simple to use, yet has many in depth capabilities as users advance in experience and knowledge. They believe that you shouldn’t have to work within the limitations of your software, but that your software should work how you decide it should. They have both free and premium versions so beginning students would not have to pay to use the software. Project management students would learn to create forms, link between their table, collaborate with other students on group projects, set up databases, sort records and publish to an external website. More information on Airtable can be found on their website at https://airtable.com/ Excel Excel would be my second tool that I would use in this class. Most students are already somewhat adept and familiar with Excel. This class would build on those basic skills teaching students how to budget and track expenditures for a project, create and manage a project timeline, create a project review, create a project schedule, status report, tracker, planner and dashboard. Students would also learn how to export these different segments into a Power Point presentation. Students would learn how to create a template from their project to save time creating future projects. Microsoft Teams I would also teach my students the use of Microsoft teams as this is such a great project / team solution. Students would be assigned groups (teams) and need to set up a team for communication. They would need to add either planner or task in a box for tasks and due dates. They would create and a team schedule, notes, files, and collaboration space within their Microsoft team. They would need to show competency with use of polls, chat and video calls within the Microsoft team ap.
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