The students have just finished a unit on Research. This week, they will put their research into practice by organizing their thoughts, notes, and information into a PowerPoint to showcase their work. This week, we will focus more on connecting what the students learned about research to organizing it into PowerPoint, as well as how to save pictures found online into their Classroom folders to be used in their presentation.
POWERPOINT:
PowerPoint is a presentational software that allows people to showcase their work through a demonstration of text and images. This presentation can be as basic as an outline or as detailed as facts with video and music.
The students have already organized their information and planned through their project. This week, the students are going to organize all of that information electronically into Microsoft Office's PowerPoint.
RIGHT-CLICK:
We also learned the right side of the mouse. This is called "right-clicking". We don't use this side of the mouse as often as we do the left; however, it is very important, for it gives you a menu of options. This week, we practiced doing a Google Image Search to find pictures that relate to our persuasion topics. We then right clicked on the image and clicked "Save Picture As". All students saved these pictures into their Classroom Folders on SMOY's network to import them into their presentations next week.
By right-clicking, you can also see the menus of "Copy" and "Paste". These come in handy as you are searching on the Internet for research to back-up your persuasion topics. Still stuck? In our lab, the yellow side of the mouse is used for "right-clicking".
