Month: September 2021

(Powerpoint 2003) 

After finishing this week’s reading and content, I found the PowerPoint information very interesting. As technology has evolved, so has PowerPoint. One should move away from the traditional PowerPoint ways and look at expanding their horizon.  Throughout my education, I have seen a fair share of PowerPoint. I have been able to gather a lot of feedback on the different types of PowerPoint presentations. I have been in lectures where PowerPoint has been amazing and other times where they just put me to sleep.

For my personal experience, I have noted some personal preferences I have when viewing a Powerpoint presentation. To begin, I found that having a simple design allows the student to grasp the given information. There is nothing more daunting than when the professor shows a slide with excessive text and you have to rush to write it down. You found yourself not even listening to the information being presented and focused just on getting it all down before the next slide would be presented. 

Citation

Lehner-Mittermaier, P. (2020, April 4). Complete history of PowerPoint & Versions (2021). SlideLizard. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://slidelizard.com/en/blog/powerpoint-history-and-versions.

Smith, E. (n.d.). NCSL. Tips for making effective powerpoint presentations. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislative-staff/legislative-staff-coordinating-committee/tips-for-making-effective-powerpoint-presentations.aspx.

For my first blog post, I wanted to discuss what I hope to get out this class. EDCI 337 seems to be an interesting class. This course is my final course and elective of my degree. I am extremely eager to get this course underway as I am very close to graduating. On that note, a large portion of my degree has been completed online. I found that my online learning has developed drastically when the pandemic occurs, as I’m sure many other UVIC students would agree. I have now successfully completed two online terms as well as one online co-op term. I have adapted my learning style throughout the past year as well. I was accustomed to learning in an in-person lecture-style classroom. Online lectures, I found, relied more on a combination of media, including video, images, audio, and text. My objective for this course is to better understand what types of multimedia. One thing I am curious about is if online learning provides the same education as in person? For instance, were students given equal opportunity with their education during the pandemic? Although, I believe this question is quite complex and hard to evaluate both qualitative and quantitative. One could not simply look at greats as there are many factors that change in education that is being delivered. Many students may find that taking online exams is different than in person.