PowerPoint

I don't know about PowerPoint.  I feel that I have experienced "Death by PowerPoint" so many times that surely, its day must be done.  However, when looking at this tool as a means for the creation of learning objects I could see its usefulness.  I created a small presentation using PowerPoint to use as a base for a unit on "Farm Animals".

I saved my PowerPoint as a movie file so that I could upload it to my blog.  While it is no longer interactive, you can still get an idea as to how useful it may be as a tool in the classroom. It took quite some time to create as I am a little rusty with the animation and timing tools. I suppose that with regular use you would get faster. I'm still not convinced that there aren't better out there these days that would give you the same result for a lot less effort.