Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JUNE 28, 2010

The teacher creates a PowerPoint presentation which contains questions, surveys and drawing activities. For example, twenty students answered "Yes" and ten others "No". Two, it integrates nicely with PowerPoint. Finally, a software with a cool name. The last cool name I heard was YawnBuster. But you know, I'm biased.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

On the other hand, a jeopardy game, or a sales simulation are examples of interactivity. Consider PowerPoint presentations – many of them are simply quite boring. I would say a button-click is too trivial to qualify being called interactivity. A multiple-choice question isn’t a whole lot more interactive either. Why does this happen?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2014

The use of learning interactions is one such example. Since PowerPoint is one of the most commonly used presentation tools, I will limit my comments to a typical PowerPoint presentation here. To make this process simple, Raptivity, the leading interactivity builder, recently released a PowerPoint add-in.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Facilitated Group Activities are computer-based templates that are implemented using platforms such as Flash and PowerPoint. A new paradigm which makes this leap forward for classroom instruction is called Facilitated Group Activities. Using this approach is a two step process.

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