Sally Samson's Synthesis & Application

I really enjoyed reading Sally's paper.
Sound like, from her paper, she had a wonderful time putting the power point together for her students as well as her parents. It's easy to read and applicable for first time power point creators.
As I read the "Jeaopardy" game part, I thought that I could create a game for my students using the high frequency words as the questions and the words for the answer. Or does it go the other way around? This would be good for my students since they are older than the kindergarten students that Sally made for. This would be good for my students too for common Yugtun words that they need to know or should already know, but need more practice on.
She goes on to explain in detail the pros and cons of power points and their useful/non-useful features. The important thing to remember when making a power point presentation is to "engage" the students in what they will be interested in learning and what is useful for them. If the presentation is not engaging, just like in classroom lessons, the learners may become passive learners. That is one thing to be conscious about making these computer lessons for the language learners.

Computer technology can be a valuable tool to teach second language learners, if we make them engaging and fun for the students. This could be helpful for reading, writing, listening, and speaking for our second language learners in addition to human resources. These lessons, what we develop using the computer could be useful in many ways.
For example, if I made more computer task activities for our language learners, this could be helpful for a center activity.
It could also be useful as a positive reward activity. Since we have never used the computer in class, the students who are doing well in class, I could have them do an activity as a reward for speaking the language, for working extra hard, etc.

I could also use the computer to make more lessons for our Upingaurluta units, for speaking, reading, writing, and listening activities. If I learned more features on the computer, the lessons I make could be invaluable for our language program. This is exciting for our program. The more I learn using the computer as a tool for our program, the ideas multiply and the lessons will be fun and exciting for our technologically-inclined students.

Although our Yugtun language is oral, using technology to teach the language will be beneficial to our students because now a days, the students know more about technology than ever before. We could record our elders, record and present traditional stories and make them into shows and or interactive lessons using cds, etc. The possibilities become endless as we learn more and more about technology in the classroom.