Reflection on the instructional Power Point assignment.
      I enjoyed this assignment.  I took an old lesson that i had presented in class and made it into a Power Point presentation.  I followed  all the things that I learned in the videos.  Because of my vision problems i find that it is easier to read the slides if the background is left white so I left it white.  One challenge that I found was putting hyperlinks with the photos.  Iaccidentally put the wrong url in the hyperlink and it took me a long time to figure out how to change it.  Eventually I deleted the whole slide and started over.  I managed to figure that out but in the process.   I think that I probably removed the animation that I had placed on one photo.  I don't believe that I remembered to replace it after I redid the slide.  The other issue was the scanned picture.  I didn't have any appropriate photos so I drew a cartoon  and scanned that.  but since I only had a ball point pen, the lines were not as dark as I would have liked them to be ,so it may not be as visible as the rest of the presentation.
Today's students are used to being entertained.  However, entertaining Powerpoints aren't as effective in helping them learn.  I would rather that my students remembered the content of my slides rather than the cute pictures, fancy transitions or animations.  I have had a teacher in the past that used so many gimmicks that students merely rolled their eyes and sighed at the wasted time.  I will  use Power point for making presentations for the classroom and for conferences.  I feel a lot more comfortable using them now.