One of the biggest presentation tools that a good administrator should use is Power Point. This is a tool that is extremely diverse because it allows you to present all types of media within it. You can show simple text, pictures, videos embedded, graphs, animations, etc.
At our staff meetings at Clarksburg, the most widely used and most effective way administrators get important information out to the masses is to show Power Points. These allow them to show school data in the form of graphs, to show us pictures of anything we need to see and know, and all the important text with dates and numbers and procedures can be seen as well. This supports many of the Maryland Technology Standards for School Administrators.
It supports Standard One by allowing all staff and students to actively see our school's vision of integrated technology in each Power Point presentation. We are also able to more effectively view and breakdown our school data and the components of the School Improvement Plan by breaking down each graph and each piece of data in the Power Point form. All shareholders are able to see and easily understand exactly where we need to improve and the exact steps we need to take to get there. Power Point is also an easy presentation tool to print out in outline or slide form on paper, as well as make available on the internet or e-mail out as an attachment.
Power Point usage also lines up with Standard # 3. Administrators are able to display all gathered information and data in an effective manner that makes taking necessary steps for school improvement more manageable and understandable. This presentation tool helps enhance and simplify the process of communicating and using data driven instruction to staff and anyone else.
Standard #4 comes into play here as well. Administrators who effectively use Power Point are by definition demonstrating their ability to model the routine, purposeful, and effective use of technology. Power Point can also be used to effectively share information about upcoming technologies and how to use them.
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You make some great points. PP is one of the most common tools we use in our schools. I caution you that as budgets get tighter some schools systems are looking for cheaper or free ways to provide the software resources needed. Users of PP shouldn't have any problem transitioning to some of the other slide tools we discussed in class.
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