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Technology Resource – Keynote

Name: Keynote App

Description: Keynote is an app for Apple iPads and Apple Mac that is the equivalent of Microsoft PowerPoint that you can find on PC’s. The app assists you in creating and producing presentations that can be used for a variety of tasks.

Video: Below you will find a YouTube video that takes you through a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Keynote on iPads (as schools are more likely to have iPads).

Curriculum Link: 

***Please note that the curriculum links below are those that would fit every task using this app and more links to the Australian Technologies Curriculum may be made depending on the topic of the presentation (for example – if doing a presentation on Mathematics, the collecting, managing and analysing data Sub-Strand may be relevant.***

Year Level/Bands: K-2, 3-4 & 5-6

Subject: Design and Technologies

Strand: Processes and Production Skills

Sub-Strand & Content Descriptor(s): Evaluating

  • Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment (ACTDEP008)

  • Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment (ACTDEP017)

  • Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (ACTDEP027)

Sub-Strand & Content Descriptor(s): Collaborating and Managing

  • Sequence steps for making designed solutions and working collaboratively (ACTDEP009)

  • Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP018)

  • Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP028)

Subject: Digital Technologies

Strand: Knowledge and Understanding

Sub-Strand & Content Descriptor(s): Digital Systems

  • Identify, use and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose (ACTDIK001)

  • Explore and use a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data (ACTDIK007)

  • Investigate the main components of common digital systems, their basic functions and interactions, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014)

Sub-Strand & Content Descriptor(s): Collaborating and Managing

  • Work with others to create and organise ideas and information using information systems, and share these with known people in safe online environments (ACTDIP006)

  • Work with others to plan the creation and communication of ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013)

  • Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022)

Cross Curricular Priorities: Using the Keynote app can allow for links to each of the Cross Curricular Priorities. This will depend on what topic the students are given to create a presentation on.

General Capabilities: I believe that the Keynote app can link with all of the General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum depending on the topic of the presentation. In saying this, any presentation using this app will link with the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability.

Links to Other Learning Areas: Using the Keynote app to create a presentation can link with almost all other learning areas depending on the topic. A significant link will always be with the English learning area, as it requires students to create a range of texts (including Digital Media texts) across a range of year levels. Further information on this can be found in the Australian English Curriculum.

Intended Use of this Resource:

This app could be used in a range of learning experiences across all primary school age groups, though will be used to a different extent depending on the year level. For example, Kindergarten to Year 2 students may choose to add more photos, rather than text.

Teachers can pose their students with a topic (this is a good opportunity for a link with other learning areas) and ask them to make a presentation on that topic, that they can present to the rest of the class. The presentations could be informative or could even be persuasive. (An example may be for students to create a presentation on a hobby of their choice and persuade others to take up that hobby)

References:

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015). Australian Technologies Curriculum Design and Technologies Scope and Sequence, from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015). Australian Technologies Curriculum Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence, from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale

iCopilot. (2013, 2, 4). Keynote iPad App Tutorial. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9z1EcJXhN4