Kiosk

An interactive kiosk on a PowerPoint provides information access to many different topics. The viewer interacts with the kiosk while learning about a topic. The kiosk may include sounds, music, movies, animation and more. At the end of the kiosk presentation, there is a review test the viewer must complete. If the view does not answer the multiple questions correctly they are re-directed to the slide that contains the answer.

I had a great time working on my kiosk. I think this is a great way to engage students in a subject with fun features. What I liked about the kiosk project was the freedom to create anything you wanted and also work together to collaborate on ideas. This project was great to work in groups because of all the unique ideas everyone had. Everyone contributed to make the kiosk the best it could be.

While creating the kiosk project there were many frustrations. Most of the frustrations came from the technical difficulties we were having. For some reasons some of the slide would not show up during the slide show. We looked for them afterwards and they were there. We had to delete and recreate some of the slide in order to make them work. Another problem we had was that for some reason some of the links to other slides were wrong and we had to re-direct them as well. While viewing the kiosk the sound did not work as well. This was really frustrating because we had worked so hard to find the sounds and music for the kiosk and in the end they did not work.

Kiosks can be incorporated in the classroom in many ways. Teachers can use kiosks in every subject area. They are a great way for students to work individually as well as in groups. Kiosks can be used as an assessment tool or just for a fun activity for students. When using it as an assessment, teachers can relate what they are learning in class to the kiosk and then ask the students questions at the end. As a fun activity students can just view the kiosk and a test at the end is not necessary.