In honor of Purim, I am posting a PowerPoint presentation that I created based on the shiur by Rav Menachem Leibtag, Megillat Esther and its Hidden Message.
I used iSpring, a free PowerPoint add-on, to convert my presentation to a Flash file and upload it onto Slideboom so I could embed it into my blog with all the animations exactly as it would play in PowerPoint. I hope that this presentation illustrates how the visuals, text, and animations can enhance the understanding of an idea without making the common PowerPoint mistakes that I have blogged about in the past in my posting on Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations and on Technology Presentations on Jewish Web 2.0 and Educationally Effective Presentations.
When I showed this presentation to Rav Menachem Leibtag he expressed a dream that a website could be created for teachers to collaborate on multi-media curricular materials such as PowerPoint and Smart Notebook presentations based on his shiurim and others. I would think this could be done with a wiki and/or Google Docs model where teachers could post curricular materials for others to add onto or even create curriculum collaboratively. This would obviously require a great many teachers to devote their time to this and funding to make this happen. Does anyone want to help me get this started?
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