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The use of multimedia including Power Point in the classroom has implications. The implication of using a program like Inspiration is that it can help visual learners understand material. Inspiration makes it easy to add graphics to an outline which can help show what the outline is about. Scanners can be used so that students can scan their assignments to turn them in. Also, teachers can scan in assignments so they will not have to type them. Power Point can highlight the main points in a presentation and lends itself more to multiple intelligences. Some of the values of Power Point in the classroom are that it is more pleasing to the eye and one bullet is presented at a time. It is helpful because it is an outline to remember what one is talking about and what one needs to talk about. Power Point can be used for lectures and presentations.
Benjamin Bloom came up with a system to define the types of questions asked on a test. According to Bloom the types of questions (or competences) that appear on a test include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Certain questions are related to each competence. For example, under the competence of knowledge one question might be “What happened after this point in the story?” Other things related to each competence include certain verbs and possible activities in which students can show their understanding of the material. For example, under the competence “comprehension” a verb used for it might be “explain.” An activity related to explanation might be to “Cut out or draw pictures to show a particular event,” as described in http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm. I like the thought of Bloom’s theory being used to “direct the students to the realization that reading has a greater and more diverse purpose than just the simple recall of facts” as described in http://www.ops.org/reading/blooms_taxonomy.html, however, I would have liked to see an example that showed how a specific question could do that. I liked that the website about the comprehension of Bloom’s taxonomy gave examples about a specific story to show how Bloom’s theory could relate to a story.