The Power Point presentation was designed
to be used in a kindergarten classroom and has been made to be developmentally
appropriate for five and six year old children.
You will see only pictures and diagrams listed on most of the slides so
that children can use Power Point to visually see and understand the concepts
that you are talking about. The speaker
notes are designed to aid the presenter giving them information and things to
say when presenting the slide to the children.
I chose red as the background because it is a primary color and simple
enough to not be distracting to the children while still visually
appealing. I wrote in yellow to use
another primary color that would not clash with red but instead stand out and
be readable. The font is Conic Sands
which is similar to the letter formation at that age, but if worried about
presenting best examples of letters the font should be changed to Times which
is a serif font, an example of the text shown to children in a normal
classroom. Each transition is fading in,
which should be less distracting to children. I have include animation that
inserts arrows, bulleted lists, and follows the cycle on slide 7 to help
emphasize elements of the presentation for the children.
1 Computers
As a
starting point for a project you build upon the children’s prior knowledge, so
talking about the computers that are in the classroom, at home, and in the
world should develop a lot of questions from the children about how they work
where they come from and others that are to be addressed throughout the
project. Take the time to have a
discussion about computers with children as you look at the slide.
2 Looking
Inside
This
picture is the documentation of when they were exploring and investigating the
computer I brought into the classroom.
It is a good idea to have hands on materials related to the project that
the kids can manipulate in order to better understand how they work. As the pictures zooms in you can see a detailed
picture of the inside of a computer this is what’s holding their attention and
if you’ve ever taken the top off of a computer you would hopefully have the
same feeling
3 Basic
Parts
This image
is what most people think when they think of computers. Children should be familiar with the main
parts that are highlighted on this slide.
It’s all right if the children don’t know what a monitor is and that
it’s called a monitor or other parts of the computer. You just need to build background computer.
4 Towers
The tower is the real part of the computer – the part where all the
processes come together to make the computer work. This is a tower of a Macintosh G5 the same
kind that is used in the classroom. This
part of a computer sits underneath the table so kids don’t normally see it.
5 Mother
Board
In the
tower there are three main parts: memory, the hard drive, and the CPU. The memory and CPU are both on the
motherboard, which is a sheet of plastic with silicon printed onto it. The silicon acts as wiring to transfer
information from the many chips connected to the motherboard.
6 Hard Drive
The third
major component to a computer is the hard drive, which most people know as the
C drive for programs, documents, and the operating system are saved so that
it’s there every time you turn the computer on.
It is connected to the motherboard through a bus which is a row of wires
that sends “bits” to the CPU.
7 Computer
Process
This
is the instruction cycle of an average digital computer. The computer is hard-wired to follow these
five steps repeatedly. The first thing
it does is it gets the instruction at the location in memory indicated by the
program counter. Then it decodes the
instructions and gets the operands it needs to execute it. Then it executes the instruction and writes
the result back. How it does this
depends on the instruction. During this
process it also progresses the program counter.
(Paul Schwarzwalder)
8 A Java
Program
Java is an
object-oriented high-level programming language. Object-oriented means that it programming in
it consists of defining various types of objects, an object is an abstract data
structure, and the methods which allow you to manipulate or look at it. This example is an object type called
HelloWorld which has one method called main, which does not require an instance
of the object or return anything. It
does require a String Array and calls the printline method of the object type java.lang.System.out
using the argument “Hello World”. This
prints “Hello World” to the terminal. (Paul Schwarzwalder)
9 Computer Part of Java
This is
the part of the Java language that is read by the computer the symbols there
shouldn’t make sense to the average person, because it’s speaking a foreign
language for computers.
10
Programmer’s Notes
This part
of the code is called a comment. This is
the programmer “comments” on the code he wrote.
It tells other programmers to look at the program or ordinary people
what the code is doing, so we don’t have to translate.
11 Assembly
Language
Assembly language is a text
representation of the binary that the computer reads. Every line of code corresponds with one
instruction. This example does the same
thing as if you called main in HelloWorld.
12 Binary
Code
This is a
list of instructions that the computer goes through to print the message “Hello
World” to the terminal. The spaced out
part at the bottom would be found in memory somewhere separate from the rest of
the code.
13 A
This is a
zoomed in picture of the computer that is in the classroom which the children
are allowed to manipulate. You can see
how all the components fit together in the computer case and to make the
computer work. All the computer images
are taken from the same computer that has been pieced together and is part of a
working computer.
14 A
Computer with a Virus
This
clipart should create an empathetic feeling with the children, relating a cold
to a computer virus, because a cold is caused by a virus.
15 Where
Viruses Come From
This slide
shows the four different places that viruses can come from: floppy disks, an
image of an outlook window, an explorer browser on the page yahoo representing
a link to downloads, and lastly CD-ROMS which can be contaminated within a
company and sent out to the consumer public. This last one is a rare thing because it gets
employees fired. The easiest way to get
a virus is by downloading it off the web, because the virus writers are of
high-school age and typically have access to the internet which is the easiest
way to distribute contaminated files.
16 Peanut
Butter and Jelly
This is
equating a simple program (which only moves data around and ands it together)
to something that children can understand, the making of a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich. The first column is what
the programmer would write. The second
column is what the computer reads. And
the last column is an analogy to the recipe.
17 Peanut
Butter and Anchovy
This is
the same code only the data has been changed from jelly to anchovies; the
recipe has been altered in the same way.
This is to make children say “Ewwww.”
18
Sandwiches all Day
This is
the first code except the last instruction has been changed from exiting the
program to starting again at the beginning, which in essence would lock up the
computer. The recipe has also been
changed from eat the sandwich to make another sandwich.
19 Viruses
This is
the last slide designed to help bring together all the elements of the
PowerPoint presentation to refresh the children’s minds about the different
things that are talked about through out the entire project.
Hidden Slides
There are four hidden slides designed to aid the
teacher in understanding how to use the PowerPoint in the classroom with a
Project.
1. Starting
Point
This slide
elaborates on the materials needed to start a project and the mentality of the PowerPoint.
2. Project
Approach
This is a
list summarizing the mentality required for implementing the Project Approach.
A link to my Bibliography provides extra resources for the teacher, parent or
browser for both Project work and Viruses.
3. Images of
Learning Children
I have
include two pictures from my classroom of students exploring the computer so
that teachers can see children learning without the aid of a teacher, by
exploring hands on materials. It is important to understand that children can
learn on their own without the teachers instructions
4. Using this PowerPoint
This last
slide includes specific instructions to aid the teacher in effectively using
the PowerPoint in the classroom, giving tips and hints on how to present an meaningful PowerPoint