Presentations

Presentations are great tools to get information across. I love to use presentations versus just standing up there talking. Presentations works well with   all types of learners such as auditory and visual. I think that every student needs to learn how to create some sort of presentation. Presentations can be fun and time consuming.

The fun part of presentations is that you can put in different type of content videos and pictures.  Middle school inclusion I go into an English class and a reading class and they both use presentation. The presentations that are used most at our school is PowerPoint. So this assignment has broaden my view on presentations that I can take back to my co-workers.

 I would love to see my co-workers allow the students to make a presentation to see how they would like it. I don’t think that students should wait until they get to high school before they have the opportunity to create a presentation. If the students had the opportunity to work in groups and collaborate on a presentation I think that would be great. Presentation are becoming the main stream for getting information across to your audience.

 

I chose to use prezi for my presentation on chapter 4. I usually use PowerPoint to create my presentations. Looking at the blogs on presentations that everybody posted in the collaborations tab, I saw a lot of different ways to create a presentation. I personally didn’t know that it was that many ways to present information.  I can’t wait to try the other presentations and see how I like them.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-h1XaSMSs

 

http://prezi.com/zolus1mjsekv/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

References

Hicks, T. (2013). Crafting digital writing: Composing texts across media and genres.

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

I was taught by the traditional teacher. We wrote on paper and turned it in. We didn’t have computers available for the entire class to type up an assignment. I have talked to some of my teachers I had when I was younger and they are way out the loop when it comes to technology. The traditional teacher needs a digital writing workshop. In chapter 2 of Crafting Digital Writing, Hicks discuss how a lot of teachers feel about digital writing. He also discussed a few different metaphors on how to enhance your digital writing. This is a great read for the older and newer generation who is not tech savvy. This website http://digitalwritingworkshop.wikispaces.com/ is a great go to spot reference information about the book.

The three metaphors that were discussed in this chapter was studying craft with lenses, studying craft by slowing down, and studying craft by starting small. All three of these metaphors had great ideas in each section. Studying craft with lenses, which means to me, that you must look more in depth in the page or the text. Sometimes there are more things to know within the readings, if you read between the lines. Slowing down was another one, once you actually look at the text in depth, one can slow down and notice the essentials in in the text, such as standards, grade level, and genres. If you don’t have the correct lenses and you are reading to fast then you will miss the important part of the writing.  (Hicks, 2013) The last essential that I liked was start small. When you give an assignment such as writing, start with a simple topic that can be builded upon in the long run. All these techniques can be used together in order to make a writing assignment the best it can possibly be.

In my blogging collaboration I discussed the edutopia blog and I found some great blogs from other teachers about digital writing. This is a great site to check out. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/why-digital-writing-matters-jeff-grabill

Here are a couple of links to videos of digital writing being taught in the classroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9z71iNrlew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20ACwt4eck