Computer Applications Technology Teacher. Author. Trainer. MIE Expert. MIE Fellow.
I needed a specific type of visual for a particular slide I was designing for my Grade 10 CAT classes. I wanted to have a fax machine scanning a piece of paper. Now, I know I could probably find a GIF or video somewhere but I rather like creating my own material. So I created … Read more
Here is a video I made (as part of staff training at my school) showcasing some of the things that I think are pretty cool about PowerPoint. They include using various Add-ins, the Online Presentation feature and Subtitles. Check it out, I think you may find some really useful tools here as a teacher and … Read more
I was given an hour to do some basic training for our staff at my school – before the start of our new Term. I love creating content and training teachers! So, I created some content covering some basic skills that I thought teachers could make use of and I put it into an online … Read more
You made the most wonderful PowerPoint presentation with all the bells and whistles…but it’s simply too big to share or upload for your class to access. So, what do you do? Start removing some of those precious hand-crafted slides that took hours to make? No! Did you know you can compress a PowerPoint file down … Read more
Seeing my Grade 8’s for less than 1 hour per week. Now that’s a challenge. I decided to teach them some of the cooler things in PowerPoint before we move on to creating “proper” presentations. I created a video to show them how to remove the background of an image in PowerPoint and then gave … Read more
If you use PowerPoint a lot, like myself, you may find that sometimes you have some slides from another presentation that you would like to include in your current presentation. Before you do what I have seen too many teachers do – have both open and manually switch between presentations while everyone watches and waits … Read more
PowerPoint is not just for slides and pictures. It allows one to create fully-engaging presentations with multimedia and narration. Yes, multimedia and narration have always been around but live annotating, a presenter cam and screen recording make PowerPoint a very powerful tool when creating content for your students. As we learn how to handle this … Read more
I made a short video showing you how you can use PowerPoint to do screen recordings and also how to record your PowerPoint slides to create a “flipped class” context where you can provide the lesson in a PowerPoint file with ease! https://youtu.be/MekI_jOmGWE