Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Non-Linear PowerPoint

What I love about non-linear PowerPoints is they allow students to almost have a conversation with the material.  Depending on what they want, they can go from slide to slide, forwards, back, and sideways.  I wanted to create a PowerPoint where students use the slides as a form of reference, almost like an encyclopedia.

So I took a soliloquy from Shakespeare's Macbeth and highlighted certain words in the excerpt that might confuse students.  Student can click on whichever word they want and are led to a definition.  Even if students don't need definitions, they can still use the PowerPoint as a reference because I added articles and videos to the presentation as well.  On the bottom of each slide, I allow students to click back to the soliloquy.  On the bottom of the soliloquy slide, I have links to different interpretations and a video of Sir Ian Mckellen performing the soliloquy.

I'm happy with this PowerPoint.  I can actually imagine students using this presentation, especially if they were doing a specific writing assignment on this excerpt and needed help understanding it.  

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