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Technology Role Cards

(Based on the Four Roles/Resources of the Reader and aligned with PowerPoint )

LEARNING ROLE

PowerBreaker

  • What features of PowerPoint don’t we understand?
  • What can we use in PowerPoint to allow us to learn how to ‘crack the code’?
  • How do I use the Office Assistant?
  • What features of PowerPoint are the most effective?
  • Are there better applications to use other than PowerPoint?
  • What tools do we need to use for the particular task?

LEARNING ROLE

PowerUser

What do I do with this text?

  • What sort of program is PowerPoint?
  • What will PowerPoint allow us to do?
  • When and where would I use PowerPoint?
  • What are the constraints of using PowerPoint?
  • What do we need to do to make the presentation impressionable?
  • What tools of PowerPoint best suit our task?
  • What do we need to select for the presentation?
  • How do we use the previous activities to construct the presentation?

 

LEARNING ROLE

PowerParticipant

  • What do we need to do to keep the presentation flowing?
  • How do we show what the characters are thinking, feeling and seeing?
  • When and where can we insert images and sounds?
  • How and why have we used the thinking strategies to construct this presentation?
  • What do the images and sounds tell us about our interpretation of text?
  • What could be done to improve this presentation?

LEARNING ROLE

PowerAnalyst

  • What impact does the presentation have on the audience?
  • What words, images or sounds look to be out of place?
  • What features of PowerPoint could we use to improve the impact of the presentation?
  • How does the presentation relate to the overall text?
  • Why have we constructed the presentation in this particular way?
  • What features could be added to PowerPoint to improve its usefulness in classroom work?