Here's a video on how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. Would go along great with the lesson below.

Check out thie lesson plan on how to use PowerPoint!

Title - How to Use Power Point
By - Melvin Carson Williams
Primary Subject - Computers / Internet
Secondary Subjects - Computers / Internet
Grade Level - 3-12
Lesson Purpose: Students will learn how to create a Power-Point Presentation.

Lesson Objectives:

Introduction to use the Power Point Program.
Learn how to use the basic features of the Power Point Program.
Learn how to make a basic slide show.
Create a presentation.

Lesson Activity #1:
Develop a simple way of showing the students how to use the Power Point Program (by example of demonstration from teacher or yourself).

Supporting Web Information: Activity 1:Power Point Help and Tools

Lesson Activity #2
Students will get together and will learn the basic command features of Power Point. Students will review by showing you the basic commands. This is necessary for the students to memorize basic features so they may refer back to these skills later on in the class.

Supporting Web Information: Activity 2:Using Power Point in the Classroom:

Lesson Activity #3
By example show the students how to create a basic slide show using your own or a pre-made template pointing out the basic features once more. Again students will need to probably need to refer to this when they begin constructing their own presentations

Supporting Web Information- Activity 3:
None

Lesson Activity #4
Students should now be able to use the Power Point Program and will test it by creating their own Presentation. Or by creating a Power-Point Presentation independent or free of instruction

Supporting Web Information- Activity 4:
None

Resources
1.Computers with the Power Point Program on it.
2.All necessary materials

Notes:
Remember to tell them what you want to tell them, to tell them, and tell them what you told them (introduction, body and conclusion or summary).

Source:http://www.lessonplanspage.com/CIHowToUsePowerPoint312.htm

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Theories on Guided Distance Teaching
1. Social Constructivism
• Students are encouraged by social context
• Learning is an active social process
• Encourages discussion with peers to facilitate individual learning
2. Cooperative Learning
• Students are encouraged to work together in groups on learning tasks
3. Collaborative Learning
• Based on the works of Piaget (1952), Bruner (1985) and Vygotsky (1978).
• Students have an active role in the learning process
• Construction of collective knowledge in the classroom
• The control of learning is turned over to the students and the teaching is student-centered
4. Knowledge Building
• Community knowledge, collective responsibility
• Constructive uses of authoritative sources
• Embedded, and Transformative Assessment:
• Democratizing Knowledge
• Epistemic Agency
• Idea Diversity
• Improvable Ideas
• Pervasive Knowledge Building
• Real Ideas, Authentic Problems
• Rise Above
• Knowledge Building Discourse
• Symmetric Knowledge Advancement
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