Activity

Activity#1

All about me — a PowerPoint presentation

You can do this activity to provide you hands on learning and improve your communication skills.

Start by gathering a selection of name books. The public library usually has a good selection of baby names and their meanings. Have students look up their names in the books to find out what their names mean or where they originated. Are they named after someone in their family? After the students find the information about their names, have them create a Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 presentation that has five (5) slides.

• The first slide contains an introduction with the student's photo (you could use the digital photo that you took on the first day of school), each student's name, and what the name means.
• The second slide can introduce their family.
• The third slide can describe something they're proud of.
• The fourth slide can list(bullet type or number list) some things that they would like to learn during the coming school year.
• The fifth slide can list their goals.

This PowerPoint presentation is an engaging tool and something that you can have up and running during open house or have set up to run on a continuous loop outside your classroom during conferences. The presentation can be as simple or advanced as you want. Students can work with backgrounds, clip art, slide transitions, and even animations if they and you are comfortable with these features. This activity might also serve as a longer "lead-in" to a PowerPoint presentation of the students' entire school year titled "What I learned in ICT 3"

Activity#2

Students will get into groups and discuss reason why Power Point Presentations are beneficial, each group is expected to come up with six reason for use of a powerpoint presentation. This will be important for students to gain an understanding of the many uses of the program. Each group will List two Ideas on the board of why a power point presentation should be used, this will create a discussion of uses and also raise student interest in the subject area.

Activity#3

Students will be taken through guided practice of the following skills: changing backgrounds, transitions, builds, hyperlinks, clip art, selecting colors and fonts, creating headers and footers, changing the slide master, developing professional looking slides. 

Activity#4

(Wrap-UP): 
Students will apply what they have learned to create a short five slide presentation. The subject area they will cover is “Hospitality Services”. They must choose a presentation package of five slides that includes transitions, builds, hyperlinks and clip art. Students will present their finished product to the class for evaluation.