How I transitioned from Powerpoint-led lessons to drawing under a visualiser

The Powerpoint years

Creating presentations were great for organising my thinking while I planned, I could include:

• Exactly the right picture that I wanted, in the order that I thought was best.

• Questions that I had thought up, and add mark schemes. Again, at the right moment of the lesson.

• Notes to myself on something to say, or something to watch at the right point.

I could develop them over years and not worry about forgetting my thoughts, and sequence or reorder lessons easily by just changing the order of the presentations in their folders. These folders of Powerpoint presentations represented my curricula. I thought I'd never stop using them.

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