Class 3-24-09

At the beginning of class, we identified the pictures of everyone that were taken the week of midterm. Dr. Pierce had told us the pictures of the class were going to be our midterm final, but we hadn’t had a chance to really go over it. So we just played around with it today.

The world has not caught up with the newest version of office PowerPoint. This makes it difficult to open up files made on old or newer versions. PowerPoint has several formats; the file type used depends on your audience.

In class we took 2-3 minutes to search for a presentation we could use in our classes for the grade level we are striving to teach. I found one on vertebrates and invertebrates.

Today’s activities included; on the web (ftp) .ppt, On the web (ftp) .pps, On the web (ftp) .htm, On the web (ftp) .pdf, On the web .pdf Google, Embedded in blog, Google Pres on web, My pres. C:\desktop. The basic idea is that the “beast” as Dr. Pierce referred to it, can be saved in a variety of formats.

We can save things in Acrobat reader, Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox…), Powerpoint, and PowerPoint viewer. Acrobat is really no longer needed to make .pdf files.

Most popular to least popular programs, in my mind are such;
1. Web Browser
2. Powerpoint
3. Powerpoint Viewer
4. Acrobat

After we saved the free online PowerPoint to our computers, we uploaded them to our Google Docs. Then we embedded it to embed it to our post.
Here is also a link to the free PowerPoint Presentation in my Google documents.

The standard that this lesson covered is ISTE standard 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning.