MY WEEK 6
I'm glad that this week we had not so many assignments as last week. Nevertheless the week was very fruitful for me.

First, I learned a lot of new about Power Point and how to make it interactive and useful for creating student-centered lessons. Of course, I knew about Action Buttons that go to the next slide, indicate an available movie or sound clip and that any element in a PowerPoint slide can serve as an Action Button -- text, images, or even clip art. But I didn't use Action Buttons to assess student understanding.  I liked this idea very much. Also I found the idea of blank slides very useful when you ask a question which needs some time to be answered and when you use Think-Pair-Share technique. I'd like to try this too because I used to just stop my presentation and what was on the screen at that time could distract my students.

Then I made my interactive presentation. I called  it "No to addictions". It's for the students of the 9th form (intermediate level), the topic is "Healthy way of life". The presentation contains a task to identify the harmful substances in a cigarette with an active button "HELP", a short video (a comercial) after which there is a blank slide because students are supposed to discuss the video after watching it, then the students' task is to do an exercise from their student's book (to answer some questions choosing the option true for them:"Are you addicted to the Internet?"), then there are rules for scoring and hyperlinks for seeing tips after doing this quiz. I added blank slides not to distract my students during the discussion. And I used interactive scoring to motivate my students, to make them more active.

I brought my ineractive presentation in class. I noticed that blank slides helped me switch students' attention from the screen to some discussion easier than before because nothing on the screen distracted them. Using a video in the presentation (it was an ad of an alcoholic beverage) provoked my students to speak on the problem of using alcohol and if it can solve personal problems as it was said in the ad. Then when I proposed my students to do a quiz "Are you addicted to the Internet?" interactive scoring interested them much. So, my presentation was really interective as my students were more active than usual, they became more motivated and spoke more which is my objective.