Stone Age!!!!!!!!!!

                    

This week, I feel like the man below. Honestly, I am a cave woman or an amoeba??? I have used Power Point Presentations for some time now, and mostly, I use them to warm up students, to introduce new vocabulary, to wrap up a session, and other useful activities.

Power Point presentations are a great tool to warm up students. I do not mean they are cold. What I mean is that these presentations can be used to engage students with a simple topic by simply asking a question, showing a video or link, etc. Also, vocabulary introductions can be enhanced if we show slides with pictures, videos, and others. Moreover, pre-teaching vocabulary for reading activities will also fall in this category. One more thing we could do is to use PPTs to wrap up our sessions. That way we could let students know the aim of the class and what we have achieved that day.

As I said before, I have used PPTs for long, but there are so many buttons I have never used, and I never thought they were so useful. After designing  my first Jeopardy game, I am sincerely going to vote me as the stone age woman. OK! Don't laugh, I know I am 40, but I had never used hyperlinks in such a useful way. Honestly speaking, I am learning so much in this course that every time I learn something new, I put it into practice.

I would like to finish this post by telling you that not everything is lost. There are lots to learn out there.

Katya