Research Promt #1

Introduction to Educational Technology is a required course for my major. I am an elementary education major and therefore have to take this course.

The assignment I worked on this week was a non linear power point. I had to create a power point, or game, in order to instruct the students or reinforce a lesson. The thing that made this power point different is it could not simply go from one slide to the next. There has to be active buttons that lead you to a slide that is not necessarily the next slide when it was created. I began a power point for early elementary students where they had to follow the clues for the treasure hunt in order get to the treasure. It is not required to finish the power point in class, and on this project wee had two weeks to complete it. So I began the power point in class in order to get the hang of how to create these active buttons. Through out the week I went to the library in order to finish the power point because my computer had a virus.

The most important thing that I learned this week was how to create interesting power points, games, that can help the children to learn. I learned how to create a non linear power point and now will be able to make them for my students.