Unification will save you a lot of time - worksheets and interactive presentations done in one shot

Let me be quite frank here. I am suffering from a bug that is called perfection. So when I am making my own worksheets, I want them to have a cool layout, challenging tasks for my students and of course at the end of their work I want to make sure that they have achieved the "right" solution. Preferably I want to check that with the whole class to have a final discussion and comparison of results.

So now let us face the music together:

• I have to design my own worksheet - usually I did this in Word.
• I have to setup a presentation to share the "right" results with my students.

Unnecessary double work in my eyes - but I will come to this in a bit.

Right now I am teaching single lessons of 45 minutes and it's not rocket science - the lesson is over before we can finish our result check in class. Especially if I am asking students to present their results at the front of the classroom.

So how to reduce work and enable students to check their solutions even after lesson time is over.

Powerpoint is the key!

What I am doing is that my usual worksheets are right now are produced with Powerpoint in landscape orientation. 

Basically they will also be my end of lesson presentation.

So my students are working on e.g. clozes. The gaps are covered with simple shapes (rectangular) and so if the PPT is printed, the solutions are covered and students will grind their teeth while filling them with correct solutions.

For the use with the projector I have modified the shapes with an animation - they will disappear when clicked on. A faeature that is available in Powerpoint - albeit just in its windows version (i.e. my reason to work with Parallels on my MacBook Pro).

Anyhow - the printed worksheet has gaps for the students to fill in. The Powerpoint projection has the same gaps and they can be filled in at an interactive whiteboard.

And if time is getting too short, the emailed version of the Powerpoint will provide a beautiful opportunity to the students to look up themselves if their results do match the expected outcome. This can be done as homework once I have shared the presentation after the lesson via Moodle, email, ... .

Take a look at this sample - in German language, but I reckon you will get the hang of it. 

Any questions or suggestions? Comment, please!