Using PowerPoint as an Instructional Tool

This past week we were given an assignment that required us to use PowerPoint to teach a short 'lesson'. Although I had used PowerPoint before, I had never published my work to the web.
This was an interesting lesson for me to accomplish, and think it could be an invaluable method of teaching students to create and publish to the web.
For a classroom that is using computers to research, create, complete, and implement lessons, both on a classroom level and on the web, short PowerPoint tutorials are an excellent tool that will help keep students on task and productive; and making tutorials is a good method to use to teach the skills necessary for future success in manipulating the web for educational and communication purposes. Students could use these skills to produce and post their own instructional PowerPoint presentations or slide shows using jpeg images.
I am looking forward to learning more of these types of skills. I finished this assignment feeling like I had accomplished a great deal.
I chose to make a PowerPoint lesson using the QX3 computerized microscope. I have one of these scopes because my daughter expressed an interest in it when she was around 9-10, so we got her one for her birthday. She was excited to use the scope, but found the Windows interface a bit juvenile and limiting. I used Apple software to run the microscope and it has a totally different interface; it is much more scientific and there are more possibilities for exploration. My daughter is now 16, but admitted that the Apple software made it much more usable as a scientific tool and less like a "kiddie toy". This is a great tool to get kids exploring and interested in using the scope.