Weekly Assignment
1. Prepare your Show & Tell Presentation
- Reread the assignment description in the course syllabus
- Select one piece of educational software or hardware and sign up here for the Tuesday section. The Friday Section of ED270 should sign up here
- Deliver your show & tell to a small group over the next two weeks.
2. Please read this week's article from Educational Leadership (found below: "True or Not?" and discuss your responses in your weekly blog post. While there are no right or wrong answers, an exploration of these questions is essential to being an educator in the 21st century.
1. Can we define what it means to be information literate?
2. Can we teach our students to have the skills essential to information literacy?
3. Can we truly prepare students to be effective users of the most powerful medium?
1. Can we define what it means to be information literate?
2. Can we teach our students to have the skills essential to information literacy?
3. Can we truly prepare students to be effective users of the most powerful medium?
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3. Next, read a section from Presentation Design: Principles and Techniques (Reynolds, 2012) and respond to the chapter on your blog.
1. What elements were you already aware of? Which elements were you not aware of?
2. How can you incorporate this into your own work and that of your students? Why is it important?
3. How do the Power Points that you have created over the years fit (or not fit) with these design principles? You may also
want to take a look at this blog posting on dodging presentation fatigue.
1. What elements were you already aware of? Which elements were you not aware of?
2. How can you incorporate this into your own work and that of your students? Why is it important?
3. How do the Power Points that you have created over the years fit (or not fit) with these design principles? You may also
want to take a look at this blog posting on dodging presentation fatigue.
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4. Then, start to think about your Pecha Kucha presentation. You will then deliver your presentation to the class over the next few weeks.
This assignment asks you to present to the class a topic of your own choosing. This should be something that’s interesting to you, and so the presentation should make clear the reason for that interest. To help that along, here are rules for your presentations. You will have exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Think SHORT, INFORMAL, and CREATIVE. You’re not trying to present the details of your topic; you’re telling a story about why it’s interesting. Don’t be afraid to play around: The idea here is that the form’s restriction promotes creativity.
In PowerPoint or a comparable program, set up a presentation with 20 slides. Each slide should feature ONE image / phrase. Next week you will sign up to deliver your Pecha Kucha to the class sometime during the second half of the course.
This assignment asks you to present to the class a topic of your own choosing. This should be something that’s interesting to you, and so the presentation should make clear the reason for that interest. To help that along, here are rules for your presentations. You will have exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Think SHORT, INFORMAL, and CREATIVE. You’re not trying to present the details of your topic; you’re telling a story about why it’s interesting. Don’t be afraid to play around: The idea here is that the form’s restriction promotes creativity.
In PowerPoint or a comparable program, set up a presentation with 20 slides. Each slide should feature ONE image / phrase. Next week you will sign up to deliver your Pecha Kucha to the class sometime during the second half of the course.