I think one of the biggest advantages of using presentation software is that it captures interest. If the presentation has animations, sounds, and contrasting colors or a design theme, then it tends to capture the attention of the audience more. I do think that presentation software tends to be more effective in the middle and high school grades, because elementary students tend to want to be more hands on and creative. One disadvantage though is that sometimes teachers start to rely on the presentation software and after months of presentations, students may start to get bored and restless. There needs to be a balance between other activities and presentations.
At the factual level, I would use the presentation software to convey important facts, people, dates, and ideas that relate to the lesson of the day, so the students can write these down and have them to study later. In the conceptual dimension, I would allow students to connect the main ideas through a hyperlinked presentation in which they could match people to countries or dates or important historical themes. At the procedural level, I would explain to students how I came up with the presentation and what each level encompasses, so that they could make their own presentations, as a project, and know how to set the presentation up so it is most successful and gets the important points across.
I am very interested in the problem of plagiarism because it is a problem plaguing society today. I knew people who were guilty of plagiarism in high school and got in a lot of trouble when they were caught. As a student, I know it is a pain to submit assignments to turnitin.com, but I'm sure that as a teacher, I will better appreciate this resource in helping me catch students who are not coming up with original work. If they just copy and paste, then a student is learning nothing, and the point of research papers and reports is so the student can learn.
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