Non-blah #4: Five Tips for Using PowerPoint Presentations

Here are some tips/ideas I thought of regarding how to use the technology of PowerPoint presentations in the classroom/in teaching:

1. To supplement or replace traditional lecture with something visually stimulating.
2. Use the slides to lead students through small group discussion.
3. Have students use PowerPoint to present research (as an alternative to writing a paper), either individually or in small teams/groups.
4. Have students use PowerPoint to demonstrate what they have learned in a unit (as an alternative to tradtional assessment).
5. To add a visual aspect to difficult-to-understand concepts.