tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69893626465231071672024-02-19T05:35:53.806-05:0021st Century Presentation LiteracyIdeas for modelling how learners present in the classroom and to the worldShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-18942629331053544152011-05-16T10:49:00.000-04:002011-05-16T10:49:10.498-04:00Displaying VideoFor some time I have wanted to incorporate video with my students. Not the video in the dvd player and sit in the classroom watching them watch TV type of video, I have wanted to have my students make their own videos and post them on the class website or on their classroom blogs. The difficulty rest in the bindings of server filters, restrictions and controls. Over the last couple of weeks the lining in the cloud has revealed itself. <br />
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One Google docs accepts video uploads and the Youtube like Video interface can be embeded where you like. Such as right here.<br />
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Second is a web based application one of my students discovered called <a href="http://www.stupeflix.com/">Stupeflix</a> It is reminiscent of Photostory 3 but as a web based app it provides embed codes for your one minute image based and text videos.<br />
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Removing the tethers of video hosting sites makes student video production an exciting new frontier for my classroom.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-45288184977638043802011-03-20T23:57:00.005-04:002011-03-21T00:04:50.447-04:00Debate Brackets<h3 align="left" id="sites-page-title-header" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 2.1em/normal 'Trebuchet MS', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Point-Counterpoint game is a simple conversation game played in pairs, small group, or whole class settings. A simple statement is made that involves one perspective of an argument. Example: "Students should be allowed to use mobile devices in schools." In a whole group format the instructor makes the initial statement then choses one learner to give the counterpoint statement. Each counterpoint must be supported by a piece of evidence and must, as counterpoint, oppose the previous statement. When the counterpoint is made ie; "Students should not be allowed to use mobile devices, because they will spend time texting instead of focusing on the appropriate task." the learner that follows must make a point that counteracts the statement previously explained. Following this example each person makes a point or counterpoint that is either connected to the topic or one of the evidence strands that emerges through the game. Think of it as a face to face forum discussion with each person making a post in real time. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There are a couple of simple procedural rules that need to be followed to make the game effective. Before you begin count of within the group so that everyone knows in advance which side of the argument they will be on. Try to start with a different person every time you play so that each learner can develop the skills necessary for arguing either side. Vary the topic statements each time you play. Once the game starts no one is allowed to repeat a previous point except to disprove it. Finally do not skip anyone. It will force everyone else to have to change sides. If someone is truly stuck they may be helped by someone who has already made<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>their point but they must whisper it to the player in trouble who must state it out loud.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/7246500/7246799_faf0_150x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/7246500/7246799_faf0_150x250.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Playing with Brackets:</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If the game is being played in combination with the bracket system then the debate points are recorded on the PRO or CON sides of the bracket accordingly. Multiple brackets can be added to the system to accommodate the number of learners in the room. If there are less than sixteen players then the point-counterpoint must be circled around until the all of the outer brackets are filled. All points should be recorded onto the bracket regardless without assessment at first, unless the group feels that a point is successfully disproven by a counterpoint during the initial faze of the game. Once the outer brackets are full learners should be broken up into teams of three to four. Two people argue for each bracket while the third and/or four players judge the short debate. Example: If texting and reading email were bracketed together on the CON side of the bracket above the debaters argue to see which is a more defendable reason to appose mobile devise use for students. The judges make a mark every time they here a valid statement that supports the debaters claim. Which ever argument scores highest moves on to the next round. (the losing topic is not necessarily eliminated any good evidence for the losing topic that works well can be absorbed into the winners argument for the next round.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Depending on the level of learners this game can take anywhere from 60 minutes to several hours but it is definitely worth playing. It can be used to prepare for a debate or as a brainstorming session for persuasive writing or as part of presentation design. Try it yourself and see how much fun a good argument can be.</span>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-88572772604549165762011-03-13T21:33:00.003-04:002011-03-13T23:56:48.835-04:00"Ignite" Engagement in the Classroom<p:colorscheme colors="#ffffff,#000000,#808080,#000000,#bbe0e3,#333399,#009999,#99cc00"></p:colorscheme><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: "100 30 0";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I love the "Ignite" presentation model but unfortunately many of the ignite videos are not intended for classroom use. However, it is a wonderful tool for teaching learners to use problem solving. The funny thing is that the problem is inverse from that of adults using the same framework. If your not familiar with Ignite its fairly simple the speaker gets five minutes and slides are set on an automatic timer so 20 slides change every fifteen seconds for adults the challenge comes from limiting what you have to say to the time limit. When students use ignite it can be very interesting. Any gaps in there research or ability become very clear. Any flaws in planning or preparation become clear as long as students practice beforehand. The learners in my classroom like it when I use it because they know that I have a time limit and the I won't be able to infringe on their work time.</span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: "100 30 0";"><strong style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/historyman8/presentation-design-and-education" title="Presentation Design and Education">Presentation Design and Education</a></strong></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: "100 30 0";"><div id="__ss_7253727" style="width: 425px;"><object height="355" id="__sse7253727" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=21stignite-110313195900-phpapp01&stripped_title=presentation-design-and-education&userName=historyman8" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse7253727" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=21stignite-110313195900-phpapp01&stripped_title=presentation-design-and-education&userName=historyman8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed> </object> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 1 About eighteen months ago I took a hard look at the methods that I was using when presenting <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">information to my classes. I </span>wasn't<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> happy with the way they presented and I was board with </span>what I was doing. What I found very quickly was a couple of new tools: Google reader and RSS feeds, and through them I realized that the professional world was screaming for a change. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Slide 2 It seems that entirely too many young professionals are presenting like this. How many of you have seen this slide or one like it. This is the typical slide created by a student for any type of presentation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 3 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The problem is that they </span>aren't<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> competing for resources and jobs with people in the same town </span>any more they’re competing globally. So to combat this we built 21<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">st</span> century classrooms. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 4 And we filled our IWBs with slides like this and then we stand back and wonder why our students give boring presentations. We modeled the behavior over and over until it has become ingrained. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 5 This is the diagram of a 21<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">st</span> century classroom. Except that it is not a 21<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">st</span> century classroom. It <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">completely lacks one crucial </span>element<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Slide 6 </span>This is a 21<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">st</span> century classroom. You as learning leader and your students as learning team or teams must interact through this technology before we can begin to call it 21<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">st</span> century learning. As learning leader your job is to facilitate learning activities, not to give away random facts disguised as knowledge. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 7 All of technology in the world is not going to make students succeed. They need to be trained on the best way to use it. This goes beyond the computer science teacher. Just as students need to learn how to read in each specialists content area, they need to learn to manipulate and output the information. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 8 Students need to learn how to problem solve through relevant projects and display their solutions both as a group and as an individual. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 9 This is MIT’s teaching and learning lab. The last entry says it all “lifelong kindergarten” Special thanks to Chris Lehman for pointing this out and for suggesting that all classrooms need to be transformed into something better. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 10 Otherwise, we are creating these barren learning-scapes that we hated when we were their age. Every leader needs to look back at the way the were taught and not say “It was good enough for me.” Instead leaders need to change the way learning is done. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 11 Forget about working inside the box. Forget about thinking outside the box. Its time to repurpose the box. Turn it into what you and the members of your learning team need. Make it work the way that you need it to. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 12 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is not </span>re-purposing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> the box.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is an example of presentation overload. This image </span>actually appeared as part of the US military planning for the conflict in Afghanistan. www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 13 Visual thinking accesses the most basic and largest pathways of the brain. Yet most educators confuse visual thinking with reading. Letters and words may be based upon images but reading adds complex decoding that is necessary but not the fastest or most efficient method of information transmission. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 14 There is a difference between the verbal and visual pathways of the brain. Think of the verbal pathway as a two lane road with information going in and out. The visual pathway would by comparison, be a superhighway that standard instruction does not effectively utilize. (Slide provided by Sunni Brown)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 15 The typical presentation does not create engagement. They are to long and use so many bullet points that the end result is an audience that is turned off. The typical PowerPoint presentation is not designed to be an exploration of learning. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Slide 16 <span class="Apple-style-span">This is not just a US education problem.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">A quick scan of slideshare.com reveals that this is a pandemic.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">In order to stop it a movement must be created at the primary and secondary levels.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule number one is 1 idea equals 1 slide. If you put too many ideas on the same page or slide the audience, that’s everyone watching you present, will get confused and stop paying attention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bright colors are offensive to the eye. Don't use them like this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Practice at home or with friends before you present. Don't be afraid to get your audience involved. They will learn more about what you're trying to teach them if they are engaged in the action. Ask them questions; just make sure you know the answers. Ask simple questions first and space them throughout your presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should know all of the information that you're presenting. Face your audience as much as possible. If you turn around the audience will think that you don't know and then they won't care.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-81506966796922513692011-02-27T21:29:00.002-05:002011-02-27T21:31:56.960-05:00Interactive online presentation toolsOne of the things that always bothers me about presentation software, whether it be webware or computer specific is the lack of interactivity. The new read/write web demands interactivity that is not produced as part of the standard presentation. When we stand in front of an audience we are questioned and, if we are doing things well a conversation develops. Outside of a webinar there is no interaction between internet audience and ourselves, and that ends when you disconnect. My classroom has an interactive white board but once the students leave the room its difficult to replicate the whiteboard online in a way that continues to guide student learning without supervision. Looking around online I found three things that continue to make guided learning possible.<br />
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Online note boards such as <a href="http://en.linoit.com/">Linoit.com</a> provide a good service for students to post conversation points. If you are careful you can craft a lesson through the board by providing resources as well.<br />
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Stick boards provide interactivity but when you make them public information can be accidentally erased or can be covered if the board gets to full.<br />
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The second site a found that has worked extremely well is <a href="http://wix.com/">WIX.com</a>. Wix is a free website service (with a premium upgrade if you need additional tools) that enables anyone to build custom websites through a drag and drop interface. I created the site below in order to give students resources for historic fiction blogs they were writing. (They had to pretend to be involved in some aspect of the war and they had to post a letter they were writing.) It does take some time to explore and learn how to use the enormous toolkit that Wix provides but you can embed the pages where you want them (anywhere that will except embed or iframe code.) Any changes you make in your console through the Wix website, because its all contained online much like <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a> or <a href="http://www.sliderocket.com/">Sliderocket</a> will show up the next time a user loads the page.<br />
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<iframe height="500" src="http://www.wix.com/historyman8/the-civil-war" width="100%"></iframe><br />
The ability to turn the pages and control the information in a compact setting gave it an interactivity that students appreciate.<br />
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Last but not least the classic Wiki is a great way to interact with learners. In the days just after the democratization of North Africa began, I knew I wanted to share what was going on with my students and then bring that back into class. I opened up a wiki and asked them, and anyone to who wanted, to post content that we could discuss in class. Wikis are wonderful in that a group can build a presentation together.<br />
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<iframe height="500" src="http://newsrevolutions.wikispaces.com/" width="100%"></iframe>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-42550618540521895792011-02-22T20:56:00.002-05:002011-02-22T21:26:22.664-05:00PeartreesThere are a lot of ways to keep track of your bookmarks on the web these days. Most of them store your links online as a long searchable list. It great to be able to access them from different computers and to share them with friends and coworkers, or to connect and collaborate with people all over the world. But its still just a big list. <a href="http://pearltrees.com/">Pearl trees</a> has developed something different. <br />
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Like any social media Pearl Trees is a great way to connect with people. If you plan to use it to leave visual bread crumbs for students be careful to monitor your connections as you cannot control which sites other users set as links.<br />
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<object width="560" height="420" id="pt-embed-306847-252-object" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/embed/getApp"><param name="flashvars" value="lang=en_US&embedId=pt-embed-306847-252&treeId=306847&pearlId=1894909&treeTitle=Education%20Resources&site=www.pearltrees.com%2F" /><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/embed/getApp" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><strong><a href="http://www.pearltrees.com/pearls/1894909/" title="Education Resources" style="text-decoration:underline;">Education Resources</a></strong></object>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-26791414587984198572011-02-13T23:17:00.000-05:002011-02-13T23:17:39.490-05:00The Scrollwheel<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fa9DLxDtPtc?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe><br /><br /><br />We have patience for everyone who is learning to become a more effective presenter and for those who are learning at new things because they love to learn. But from time to time we all experience this.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-63963525760483250172011-02-05T19:12:00.002-05:002011-02-05T19:15:08.423-05:00Not Sure Where to Present a Big Idea? Try the Hallway, All of it.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeA5xnEmYVP5cQVaoqH14a6HSC7byqt3TNCqYyQGwCKnBYLe4UEaUwqWfKzruJM6rWh-5NSaRIHcVF6BMoQnReyFUuaNZ0hKpUw744EBsZimLKmJtSb5vDMV9zhjeDrG_DQEXljz70Fap2/s1600/117_0145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeA5xnEmYVP5cQVaoqH14a6HSC7byqt3TNCqYyQGwCKnBYLe4UEaUwqWfKzruJM6rWh-5NSaRIHcVF6BMoQnReyFUuaNZ0hKpUw744EBsZimLKmJtSb5vDMV9zhjeDrG_DQEXljz70Fap2/s320/117_0145.JPG" width="320" /></a>January 27 was International Holocaust Memorial Day. Rather than stand up in class an talk, I wanted to do something different with my students. I wanted them to get an idea of the magnitude of 6 million people. Looking online I found the <a href="http://www.hmd.org.uk/resources/victims-names/list-of-holocaust-victims-names-for-reading">Yad Vasham Shoah</a> database but quickly realized that even presenting it on the IWB in our classroom wouldn't reveal the enormity of this partial list of victims. The 166 page list of adults and children ranging from 1 to 78 years old contains over 2000 names. My classes and I figured it mathematically to be .03% of the total. What caught there attention the most was that the list as we presented it stretched the entire length of our wing of the building. As my students walked quietly down the hall I asked them to look for the youngest and the oldest to compare the number of adults to children and to determine why we have so much detailed information. When we returned to class we were able to have a discussion of the magnitude of the Holocaust that was appropriate to the meaning of the day.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhO6jsTR_8Qy6ZQNbVXXlZ8hHSof81K4BiFEUUTwHLPQauzMuugiO1AKd856RYFWG220m4s7KfwNs4ahwph3YiBQX2VuBzupAf7gouZZNGwbfVIbZkZQJ-zsPeLQWcMHvuVxyX4WdP2XQk/s1600/117_0149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhO6jsTR_8Qy6ZQNbVXXlZ8hHSof81K4BiFEUUTwHLPQauzMuugiO1AKd856RYFWG220m4s7KfwNs4ahwph3YiBQX2VuBzupAf7gouZZNGwbfVIbZkZQJ-zsPeLQWcMHvuVxyX4WdP2XQk/s320/117_0149.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>By way of parallel instruction the Language Arts classes began reading the "Diary of Anne Frank" on the same day. (Yes we planned this. The heavy emphasis on Language Arts and the absence of a state test for Social Studies in our grade has given us the room to switch the history classes to a thematic platform to more easily connect the two classes.) The students will present differentiated individual projects in LA based on Anne Frank and group projects on the Second World War in Social Studies. The student produced projects range from image based PowerPoint presentations to Common Craft style videos. Instructions for Common Craft in the classroom can be found at <a href="http://blogush.edublogs.org/2010/12/27/commoncraftvideosmiddleschoolsocialstudies/#more-1018">Blogush</a>. At the end of the unit all of the students post a historic fiction piece on our class blog as if they had lived through some part of WWII whether it was the Homefront, Europe, or the Pacific. <br />
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Finally I found a great solution. <a href="http://www.exp-flv.com/flv-editor/">Moyea's FLV editor Lite</a> is a free program that allows you to edit flv files quickly and easily. It contains seperate lines for video and audio that can be trimmed and cut so that either or both can be removed or replaced. Those shocking images from a documentary of Youtube video can be pulled out while the commentary remains in place. <br />
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If your just looking to download and play Youtube videos <a href="http://www.realplayer.com/">Realplayer</a> has a video download function that allows you to download video from almost any website. It has a trim function as well though it is not as advanced. <br />
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Here's an example. <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7300946306109319965#">All Quite on the Western Front </a> is available on Google video. But its a two hour film and I only need two sections of it. I wanted my students to know what life was like in the trenches of WWI, so I sat them on the floor in between two rows of desks in the dark. First I had them read from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IdufAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=over+the+top&ei=hEZGTZCEGsPiUIifqcQE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false">Over the Top</a> by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: nowrap;">Arthur Guy Empey 1917.</span><br />
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The read Chapter IV from the book, which is only about five pages long, and then we watched the trench scene from All Quiet that is presented below. Afterward, they began writing letters home as if they were the soldiers in the trenches. <br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/18938729">Untitled</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5125365">Historyman8</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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I know they get more out of this than if I lecture or if they just read from a book. In order to share their letters they post them on their blogs as I mentioned in as previous post.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-90890211505170947332011-01-18T07:54:00.002-05:002011-02-12T21:41:14.358-05:00Visualization21st Century Presentation Literacy was not established as a regular posting forum, but I find myself feeling more responsible to the blogosphere to become a regular contributer. I rarely make New Year's resolutions but this year I have decided to try to make more regular editions to the blog and to expand its scope to include more differentiated methods of presenting information in the educational environment. From stand up presentations to website design everything educators do as learning leaders needs to be modeled and to be constructed with solid presentation design. <a href="http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#">The Periodic Table of Visualization</a> below should help myself , an I hope others, craft presentations of any kind.<br />
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Special thanks to the people at Visual-Literacy.org for setting this up and for everything they do for "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: GillSans, 'Gill Sans', 'Gill Sans MT', 'Futura Lt BT', Futura, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communication, Engineering and Business". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Remember even if i</span>t doesn't say education we still need to find ways to enable our learners to develop these same skills.</span>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-87111217033831037632010-12-26T01:19:00.002-05:002010-12-26T01:33:13.042-05:00Little robots<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmC2g8mNhgEabOMRW2tn68Qpaeiez6a2by3DngM6p8ne0FaWzUPetW12ZGhvV1K5cZycjQP-B-eeLkSeFSz9Ii2BeW8hr_2UFiNSBNPV5jJU_g-2P2ljKMu4OREXvR58bzcpoi2_1vPqx/s1600/1225102318-784449.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554871835285434850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmC2g8mNhgEabOMRW2tn68Qpaeiez6a2by3DngM6p8ne0FaWzUPetW12ZGhvV1K5cZycjQP-B-eeLkSeFSz9Ii2BeW8hr_2UFiNSBNPV5jJU_g-2P2ljKMu4OREXvR58bzcpoi2_1vPqx/s320/1225102318-784449.jpg" /></a></div>Every once in a while something truely good shows up. The Scrabble Flash game is one of those addictive learning games that cimbines hands on learning with vocabulary. I instantly want multiple sets for my classroom. Student can wirk in pairs recording all the words and then finding the meanings of those that they don't know. I remember seeing the presentation of the <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html">designer of these little wonders on TED</a>, and thinking how good they would be for education. Thanks to the toy company they are now in the mass market. It just shows that a great presentation can spark real inovation and that educational tools can come from providers outside the educational sphere. Hopefully some one will also market a math version in the future. I have a fealing we will be seeing more tiny robots in the classroom in the future.<br />
Thank you for using Picture and Video Messaging by U.S. Cellular. See <a href="http://www.uscellular.com/">www.uscellular.com</a> for info.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-89657746297836530412010-12-09T22:11:00.002-05:002010-12-09T22:25:26.662-05:00Presenting Through Historic Fiction Blog StoriesIn order to teach teach blogging to my students about blogging as a digital storytelling strategy, I assigned my students to write a series of blog posts about the effects that America's great wars had on our society. They had to write a blog entry for each time period and all the posts had to be connected through family lines. The characters represented journals had to be the decedents of the characters from the earlier posts. I wanted to make sure that I had the chance to model the strategy and the best methods of presenting information using blogging as a presentation medium. I decided to do the activity with my students and as I wrote my own entry I came up with the idea not to just type the story and set pictures around my text but to create a hybrid format. With a little of creative editing and creative commons images I produced the following entry. Once we have all the entries completed I will have my students create digital ebooks through <a href="http://www.yudu.com/">YUDU</a> or some similar service.<br />
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My father and mother came from Scotland in 1735. My father a surveyor and trader moved my mother and older brothers and sisters to the western edge of the Carolina frontier at the foothills of the mountains. They built a small farm and my father made a kept them well trading with the Indians and selling the maps that he made of the country. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"> I was born in the winter of 40 and grew up on the frontier. Life was hard but the land was plentiful and my father traded fairly with both the colonists and the Indians so we didn’t have much trouble with them.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">Things change though, over time more people arrived and began to fill up the country. Many of them didn’t want to share the land with the Indians. They thought that they could just take it because nobody owned it. I remember my father trying to explain how the Indians used the land to the settlers and then having to turn around and explain the to the Indians why more people kept moving in. Most people on both sides walked away just shaking their heads. I was about 15 when things started getting bad. Stories where coming into the the trading post about how Indians were attacking farms and taking people. Folks said the French over the mountains were getting them to do it.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">When the fighting broke out my father and older brothers left to fight because we lived on the edge of Indian land my father said they were going to help track the French and the Indians that where fighting with them. It seems that some of the Indians were fighting with us and my father was helping to translate for the British commanders.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"><img alt="" height="468" src="http://files.kidblog.org/23766/files/French-and-Indian-war-comic-1-500x468.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; border-right-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 3px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">Most of the fighting took place up North and in the Ohio Country. That is until the Cherokee War. In 1758 things got bad again between us and the Cherokee. They had been friends to the settlements, or at least tolerable for the most part. But then over time things got worse.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f312e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"><img alt="" height="442" src="http://files.kidblog.org/23766/files/Fench-and-indian-war-comic-page-2-500x442.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; border-right-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 3px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="500" /></span></div></div></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-top: 0.6em;"></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-63244334349507048312010-11-22T20:03:00.001-05:002010-11-22T20:03:59.309-05:00Social Studies Class: Integrating the Web & TechnologyCheck out this SlideShare Presentation: <div style="width:425px" id="__ss_5691085"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sweetsearch/social-studies-class-integrating-the-web-technology" title="Social Studies Class: Integrating the Web & Technology">Social Studies Class: Integrating the Web & Technology</a></strong><object id="__sse5691085" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=techinsocialstudies-101107013212-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-studies-class-integrating-the-web-technology&userName=sweetsearch" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse5691085" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=techinsocialstudies-101107013212-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-studies-class-integrating-the-web-technology&userName=sweetsearch" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="padding:5px 0 12px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sweetsearch">SweetSearch</a>.</div></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-71891532686843108072010-09-24T20:45:00.000-04:002010-09-24T20:45:51.299-04:00Mock CourtNever underestimate the power of a group presentation. Mock Trials are wonderful ways for students to learn to present. Because it feels more like a conversation to them the fear of standing in front of the group is lessened considerably. Here are some things that allow students to learn more about how they did.<br />
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2. Assign parts days in advance and put students into different groups to work out their roles. Any students not assigned to specific roles can serve as press coverage for the case. Judges must write opinions. Lawyers must write case reviews and journalists can write up interviews and news stories for newspapers, television, or online articles such as blogs.<br />
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3. Choose big cases for students and involve multiple classes. Supreme Court cases are great because they deal with larger issues that students can relate to. Nine justices make for a nine chances to be the judge and require the classes to cooperate and collaborate over rules and ideas. (If you use multiple classes you under the Supreme Court model find another teacher or administrator to serve as the Chief Justice it will help keep the arguments focused and prevent the court from making a biased decision. The Curriculum lead teacher in your school is perfect for this. Give that person lots of notice and work with their schedule. They may be vary busy but your CL is a teacher and most of them really miss working with students.)<br />
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4. Repeat the activity throughout the year. There are more cases than you can cover in an entire year. By adding complexity each time students can add more to their skill set. Virtual reenactments, digital presentations and digital evidence can be created by the plaintiffs and defendants and presented through projectors.<br />
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You be amazed at how much your students can impress you with what they can do with the material.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-8812003905933517182010-09-14T00:43:00.000-04:002010-09-14T00:43:25.652-04:00President Obama's Education Address<br><br />
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<div style="padding: 5px 0 12px;">View more presentations from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalGossip">@JESSEDEE</a>.</div></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-66626456784507334822010-08-17T13:57:00.002-04:002010-08-17T13:57:44.020-04:00<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EjJg9NfTXos?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EjJg9NfTXos?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-62340154693664222622010-08-13T17:46:00.000-04:002010-08-13T17:46:07.538-04:00Ignite the Doodle RevolutionThis puts two of 21st century presentations most powerful tools together. Ignite presentations and active Visual thinking. If we could only talk Sunni Brown into writing a book for students. <br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/10289224">SXSW 2010: Dan Roam on Visual Thinking</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/teehanlax">Teehan+Lax</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-8519103002754640152010-08-09T14:12:00.002-04:002010-08-10T23:14:48.910-04:00Conference Notes Part 1<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">21st Century education cannot be accomplished by adding computers to teaching. Classrooms filled to the breakers with IWBs, clickers and computer stations does not electro-magically become 21st century trough addition. Students may leave secondary education with the requisite knowledge from State mandated testing, but learning leaders everywhere admit that mandatory testing is part of the industrial age of education when 80% of students were trained for factory or agricultural work. Education needs a transformative experience that addresses three aspects of the classroom environment: </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">1.The methods through which students are provided information from learning leaders.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2. The manipulation of the information, and problem solving conducted by students.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">3. The presentation of student results and findings</div><br />
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Good presentation design begins with modeling techniques for students. Learning leaders are teaching more than just the content of their course whenever they present to the class. The presentation style itself is a learning moment. To often, the complaints coming from classrooms involve students poor performance through presentation, but when I look at the presentation methods of the instructor they are similar to those of the students. If you present anything with mindless bullet points or overly complex graphics students will return the information to you in a nearly identical manner. If the instructor reads pages upon pages of outlines from the IWB then student will present the same way. The following slides come from my student guide to presentations. <b>Do not read them as rules. </b>This format is designed to create presentations based upon <a href="http://www.duarte.com/">Duarte Design's</a> and <a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/">Guy Kawasaki's </a>basic framework. If students are going to be competitive in whatever they choose to do in life they need basic tools to grow. Their are as many ways to present as their are learning styles. The object of 21st Century Presentation is to create engagement that makes the audience want to learn more and use the information provided.<br />
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<a href="http://www.prezi.com/">Prezi</a> is a great visual presentation method that enables presenters to reach outside of the constraints of PowerPoint. Like any technique it can be over used. Learning leaders should create a personal brand, flipping back and forth through presentation styles haphazardly is confusing to your learning team. Prezi, PowerPoint and the software that came with you IWB are just a small set of tools. Don't forget that anytime a learning leader is distributing information to a class he, or she, is presenting. Documents, textbooks, webpages, wikis, and blogs are all presentation media. Simply using them is not enough to be 21st century. The how and the why are the key.<br />
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<div class="prezi-player-links"><a href="http://prezi.com/emsxp4ob0wg1/copy-of-thoughts-on-using-prezi-as-a-teaching-tool/" title="Ideas and reflections on the effective use of Prezi to support whole class teaching">Copy of Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-61239644839241398822010-08-03T18:04:00.000-04:002010-08-03T18:04:46.562-04:00Empressr<a href="http://www.empressr.com/">Empressr</a> is a nice presentation tool that can be used either to create a presentation or modify an existing PowerPoint. One of its best attributes is the embedding code that allows you to post presentations to you blog or wiki.<br />
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</tbody></table>Most of us have cell phones of on type or another (or various ipods) with cameras. If you have ever been somewhere and saw an image that you wish you could share with your class, but forgot your camera? Psst...Its in your pocket. Most camera phones carry at least a 2 mega-pixel digital camera which is perfect for creating presentation backgrounds and images. It not difficult at all.<br />
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First after you take the picture enter your email address into your phone's contact list. Then send the image as a picture message to you email.<br />
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Next download the picture edit with any photo software and then insert it into your preferred presentation platform.<br />
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Its that simple. And you get custom images to use for presentations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken with my LG Chocolate 3 2mega-pixel camera with no editing.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Have you ever wanted to do a project with your students using local digital photography. Psst...Their cameras are in their pockets.<br />
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Below is a great set of dimple ideas to improve your cellphone photography skills.<br />
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</div><div>Visual thinking is important to presentation and planing a presentation is vital to communication and persuasion. Dan Roam explains this so much better than I do. Follow the link to see the full presentation.</div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804882437137649942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6989362646523107167.post-88026732048412767042010-07-24T19:20:00.000-04:002010-07-24T19:20:31.182-04:00What we teach them now will stay with them foreverSo I'm a big fan of Sunni Brown and the visual thinking methodology. I was looking at the Gamestorming website and found this ignite presentation. Ignite is a fantastic presentation style for middle and high school students because it forces them to plan out what they are going to say and how they will present their information visually. As I watched the video I was astounded by thew teaching conventions that we use and how they will be used by our students as they continue to be life long learners. Watch the video and see how many of your teaching techniques you can find.<br />
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