Using PowerPoint in a Social Studies Class

PowerPoint is is used quite frequently in any number of classes, whether it is used by teachers or students, it is a great way to help students organize notes effectively so that they can follow the content of a lecture.  However, PowerPoint has also received a great deal of bad publicity as well.  One of the more common comments about PowerPoint is that the “bullets” are called bullets because they kill you….there is something to be said for this.  For the rest of this post, I am going to look at some effective ways to use PowerPoint in the Social Studies classroom (or any other class for that matter).

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~ by edtechjon on January 13, 2010.

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