Powerpoint Presentation

For today's activity I created a presentation on sonnets using Microsoft Powerpoint. This presentation would be given to a 9th grade English class and they would have various handouts and notes to accompany the presentation. This activity was really fun for me because I enjoy creating fun and interactive lessons (probably because I haven't begun teaching yet so I don't have to do it on an everyday basis- hehe). I am usually bad about making my presentations wordy, so this time I really focused on images, videos, and succinct language. This is the first presentation I have made using videos and audio clips for effect. I am really proud of how it turned out because I don't think students would find it as boring as most presentations, but I know I'll get better as I get feedback from students and adapt my teaching to their learning needs.

After I created the presentation using Microsoft Powerpoint, I used the drag & drop method to put the file into my public Dropbox folder. Even though I've used Dropbox for over a year now, I have never used the "public folder" feature until now because I've never needed to. However, I think it's extremely useful and now that I have learned how it works I can see myself using it a lot more often. I use Dropbox on a daily basis for just about everything because I do work on various laptops and it allows me to have access to all of my files from any computer. I'm excited to have learned about another feature of the program.