The Power of PowerPoint

I team-teach with two other fourth grade teachers who share an interest in helping students discover their heritage. Previously we have had our students create booklets that recorded interviews with elder family members and included pictures from home of their families. Due to my involvement with the Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) and a mentorship project they hosted, I was awarded a $1,000.00 grant from RCET and the Jennings Foundation. I recognized that my experience with PowerPoint presentations and our ancestry projects were a perfect platform for the mentorship project. Rather than have the students produce booklets, we would help the students develop PowerPoint presentations that would replace paper and print with multi-media.