Education Eye - Mapping Innovations What Everybody Ought To Know About Using PowerPoint for E-learning I just got back from the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning conference. In one of the presentations, the presenter talked about how ineffective PowerPoint was for learning. The irony of course was that he was using PowerPoint to teach this. It’s not the first time I sat through a PowerPoint session where the presenter was telling me that PowerPoint is ineffective for training. PowerPoint is still the dominant tool of choice for many in our industry and for good reason. PowerPoint gets a bad rap because there are a lot of bad PowerPoint presentations. Here’s how I approach PowerPoint so I don’t fall into the bullet point trap. Drop the Bullet Point Templates and Start with a Blank Screen Look at the images above. Once you step away from the bullet point look, you open up all types of possibilities that extend beyond the typical PowerPoint slide shows. Here is the PowerPoint file for you to download and see how it looks before publishing. Click here to launch the demo.
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Augmented Reality in Education. Part II - ARLab Blog Among all the Augmented Reality applications, one of the most important and practical ones is its use in education. There are many companies and developers which make an effort to introduce this technology to students, professionals and researchers related to the education field. Like in nearly all the Augmented Reality applications, through specific images into the text books, students will be able to access extra 3D contents related to each image. This additional information will improve, not only the students´ experience, but also the way in which they learn the lesson, allowing them to understand the content much better than without Augmented Reality. This makes sense when we talk about lessons for children, where they can feel that they play with this extra layered information, with which they will have a more robust learning, as has been shown by some researchers in the field. Augmented Reality makes the learning process more efficient, interesting and enjoyable.