For my second tool this week, I used Microsoft Powerpoint to create a slide show. This tool allows you to create your slide show using pictures, writing, and if desired voice narration. Some benefits to using narrated slide shows are that you can accommodate multiple learning styles by presenting information in several modalities such as written, pictorial, and auditory.
There are several ways to use a slide show program in 2nd grade. Some ideas that I thought of are specific to the start of our school year when we are working on building our community of learners through multiple "get to know" you activities. One specific activity that I do is called our summer memory picture. By using a narrated slide show, there would be another layer of personal connections being made among students. Another way that I envision using this tool would be during our personal narrative writing unit. It is an engaging way to get kids excited and involved in writing and telling stories about their lives.
For my project I wanted to create a sample of a slide show that I could do with my second graders at the beginning of the year. I used my first grade daughter as my guinea pig, and together we worked on creating a sample project. We selected photos that we had taken on our first family trip to Disneyland. We had fun going through the photos and reliving our vacation. By adding the text to go with each picture, my daughter was able to practice using sequencing skills as well.
The OEST standards that this would help to meet are many including: 1(A,B), 2(B,D), 3(A,B,C,D), 4 (B,C), 5(A,B,C) and 6(A,B)