The final part of out literacy / ICT project involved making a PowerPoint presentation in which we would use the interactive whiteboard to share our work with an invited audience. The children wrote and delivered invitations and the class set about writing their instruction booklet. Each child was responsible for presenting one page of the story.

As PowerPoint was new to the children the actual construction of the file was done by the teacher. She made the background, added the pictures and included an empty text box. This left the sentence describing the picture to be written by the children. The teacher worked with each child individually.

Soon, presentation day arrived. The children were very excited. Amazingly, even after an interval of two weeks, when they had had not opportunity to practise, the children were word perfect. Having the whiteboard to present their work meant that they were in complete control of the show. They were able to read their sentence and move on the presentation unaided and this did much to boost their pride in their achievement. The use of the digital camera alongside PowerPoint and the whiteboard resulted in a very polished professional performance by the children.