Week 6

During our discussions about the various topics talked about in this week of class, the topic that I feel I can relate to the most is the topic about PowerPoint presentation software. PowerPoint is a great invention and can really benefit a business presentation, student presentation, a teacher's lesson, and various other uses. They allow much more creativity in a presentation, and have given people many more options on how to express what they are presenting or teaching.

I was very interested about the subject of creating games by using a PowerPoint program. I have actually helped create a Jeopardy game with a professor. The professor was demonstrating the various uses of PowerPoint presentations for a meeting last year. The game can be programmed with your own questions and answers, and when played, it works quite well and is very entertaining to play. If programmed to have educational questions, it can work in a classroom and engage learners. Creating games with PowerPoint just shows all the creative uses that can be done with the program.

On other topics talked about during class, I learned a lot from the discussion about copyrights and teachers too. I never knew how much of a thin line that is walked when a teacher brings in outside materials to add to a lesson in a classroom and it kind of scares me a little. Some things with using copyrighted material I would of thought was legal, may not be legal according to the copyright laws and it is very important for me as a future teacher to be aware of these laws in the future. I would hate to slapped with a huge fine or even a day in court for a simple mistake.