I have found it works best for me if I set up my power point presentations with very little text. I like slides with pictures and diagrams that I can talk about. You can include an outline as a guide so you remember what you need to discuss with the students regarding each slide, and offer the notes to the students in a printed form if you like. This way you'll avoid simply reading the notes to your students and putting them to sleep. It does require that you know the information inside and out, because you can never tell… >>>

“If it isn’t broke….” For many years I have been struggling with introducing technology into my lesson plans. Why create power points when I have a white board and marker in my classroom? Why display it on a projector when I can hand out copies in my class? Then one day I stopped over my in-laws and witnessed my Father in-law flip though a phone book to find the number for a local pizza shop. That’s when it dawned on me. That was me in the classroom. The Luddite embracing past technology because it still does the job. And I… >>>