Student-centred PowerPoints

By embedding buttons into a PowerPoint, it offers an entirely new dimension to the traditional presentation. After taking the PowerPoint Quiz I was able to employ the use of buttons in a PowerPoint, which essentially enables the user to actively engage with the content. I perceive this to be a much more effective alternative to the traditional "stand up in front of the class and deliver a presentation" in the sense that learners are using more than just their eyes and ears-they are given the change to work through the activity at their own pace. In the case of my proposed learning activity, students have to recognise their mistakes and take relevant corrective action on the following attempt.


Here is the link to my PowerPoint which I have designed for my Year 9 Business Education class. I have designed it as a theory revision quiz that requires students to select the correct answer before being allowed to move on to the next question via buttons. Have a look and let me know what you think! It is only very short and I will add more slides to it for the actual revision in a few weeks time. Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9ab3d16ca55fd01767cd7f7bd65f7eefe04e75f6e8ebb871

PowerPoint quizzes conform to Kearsley & Shneiderman's Engagement Theory (1999) as the technology requires students to actively engage with the tool in order to participate in the learning sequence (revision quiz). Furthermore, students could develop their own PPT quiz and they could use it to test their peers in order to foster a more collaborative learning environment that better fits the mould of this theory.

References:
Kearsley, G & Shneiderman, B 1999, Engagement Theory: A Framework for technology-based teaching and learning, viewed 24 July, 2009, http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm.