1. *Any genre (children’s, pop, religious)
Starter Challenge:
Think of a song in popular culture that relates to something you teach.
*Any genre (children’s, pop, religious)
*Think about your content area or a specific topic you teach

2. Multimedia Presentations

3. Purpose of Multimedia Presentations
Multimedia presentations can be used to:
Introduce topics
Pose essential questions
Trigger interest for future research
Assess student learning

4. Introduce topics
Peek student interest by showing a multimedia presentation that makes them think
U.S. History: Imperialism

5. Pose essential questions
Essential questions offer OPEN-ENDED questions that can be examined across the curriculum
They are central to life
Essential questions make learning relevant:
There are NO right or wrong answer
Students can draw from their experience or imagination
It allow students to make CONNECTIONS to the learning
Why should we be concerned about future events?
Henry Berry Lowrie: In the face of adversity, why do some people thrive while others fail?

6. Trigger interest for future research
Present a presentation that tells a story
The pictures, music, and text will make students interested to learn more
Great Depression: How would we recover?

7. Assess student learning
Assign projects that assess learning
Look at Maggie’s work
*Tips for Creating Effective Presentations Handout
* Use to create an outline and rubric

8. Creating Multimedia Presentations
Several software programs allow you to create multimedia presentations:
PowerPoint
Windows Movie Maker
iMovie

9. Watch how simple it is…

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