http://camppbworks2010.pbworks.com/w/page/26614770/Irina%20-%20Mentor
As I recommended before, this is a link to one of my studnets SLIDE.COM presentations. http://www.slide.com/r/GWbcsGlF6z9dHWm-oxb6kdzh2fbwuoQc?previous_view=lt_embedded_url
One of my slide.com presentations ( I use'em as Slide-reports of students PPT conferences) and animoto.com one ( could be posted on Utube) are posted on the blog earlier.
The bad and annoying thing about Blogger : you cannot embed anything but links! I managed to embed the above here by pasting the embed code directly to the new post window and saving it. Anyway,with PbWorks and Google sites no such problems!
Jul 30, 2011
WEEK 6
Now, Week 6 is over. It was very fruitful for me as I've learnt something new about PPTs and ways of students engagement.
At last I've done interactive PPT ( kind of funny webquest). It took time to study how hyperlinks to slides and links to websites work. Better to dowmload PPT from class wiki to get all work. I uploaded it to slideshare.net - the same problem - slides hyperlinks dont work!
I tried googledocs presentation - you can embed youtube video to a slide there, but no pages hyperlinks possible :(( Nothing is ideal...
I still think that there are much better and easier web-tools for quizzes, quests and tests then PPT. I don't think I would use PPTs for in-class gaming. Anyway it was interesting to try something...
By the way, does anybody use Glogster ( edu.glogster.com)? http://evabasil.edu.glogster.com/rocknrollcat ( my sample glogster)
Not to repeat, I posted two of my nicenet opinions below, please, feel free to comment, if you want. Thank U.
Kind
Irina
At last I've done interactive PPT ( kind of funny webquest). It took time to study how hyperlinks to slides and links to websites work. Better to dowmload PPT from class wiki to get all work. I uploaded it to slideshare.net - the same problem - slides hyperlinks dont work!
I tried googledocs presentation - you can embed youtube video to a slide there, but no pages hyperlinks possible :(( Nothing is ideal...
I still think that there are much better and easier web-tools for quizzes, quests and tests then PPT. I don't think I would use PPTs for in-class gaming. Anyway it was interesting to try something...
By the way, does anybody use Glogster ( edu.glogster.com)? http://evabasil.edu.glogster.com/rocknrollcat ( my sample glogster)
Not to repeat, I posted two of my nicenet opinions below, please, feel free to comment, if you want. Thank U.
Kind
Irina
About PPTs and oral presentations
Hi!
It seems general opinion is "PRO" PPTs and other visual in-class aids(mostly for lecturing, anyway).
Thank you, Celeste, Natalya and Donna, for your on-the-go comments. Get some fun and not boring to skim it all at all:))
Learnt something new about PPT: possibility of making PPT games for in-class use and slides hyperlinking.
Good advice on Jeopardy screencast at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgPO-agnnMk. Thanks for sharing!
By the way, a screencast video could be a lecture visual aid (vidcast) or add-on to your oral PPT presentation and a starting point for further in-class activity. Or can even replace PPT...
I would recommend Jing.com for the likes of screencaptures and screencast.
As for lecturer or student-presenter:
we actively use here PPTs as teachers'lecture support and for students public conferencing practice in English.
But first of all, we should teach students
the basics of public speaking in any language(both native or foreign);
skills of on-stage presenting and body language-i.e.voice, tone, intonation, gestures and other;
selecting proper topics;
organizing and structuring the speech;
studying useful expressions and even sentences;
writing and studying by heart their speeches;
and only then adding a slide show as support,
logically designing and even counting number of slides...
Slides and speech should match and switch.
The great deal- using good samples,preparation and rehearsal.
Sorry for exposing here some well known and very common things, applying both for lecturers and students.Trying to fight a bad habit of 'reading lectures' or mumbling written presentation. Just to think about it.
Sorry for too long piece of writing
Kind
Irina
It seems general opinion is "PRO" PPTs and other visual in-class aids(mostly for lecturing, anyway).
Thank you, Celeste, Natalya and Donna, for your on-the-go comments. Get some fun and not boring to skim it all at all:))
Learnt something new about PPT: possibility of making PPT games for in-class use and slides hyperlinking.
Good advice on Jeopardy screencast at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgPO-agnnMk. Thanks for sharing!
By the way, a screencast video could be a lecture visual aid (vidcast) or add-on to your oral PPT presentation and a starting point for further in-class activity. Or can even replace PPT...
I would recommend Jing.com for the likes of screencaptures and screencast.
As for lecturer or student-presenter:
we actively use here PPTs as teachers'lecture support and for students public conferencing practice in English.
But first of all, we should teach students
the basics of public speaking in any language(both native or foreign);
skills of on-stage presenting and body language-i.e.voice, tone, intonation, gestures and other;
selecting proper topics;
organizing and structuring the speech;
studying useful expressions and even sentences;
writing and studying by heart their speeches;
and only then adding a slide show as support,
logically designing and even counting number of slides...
Slides and speech should match and switch.
The great deal- using good samples,preparation and rehearsal.
Sorry for exposing here some well known and very common things, applying both for lecturers and students.Trying to fight a bad habit of 'reading lectures' or mumbling written presentation. Just to think about it.
Sorry for too long piece of writing
Kind
Irina
Students engagement nicenet
Dear Donna and all
Overall:
I consider this week articles and resources very useful as they are making clear ways, instructions and methods of activating students learning while lecturing or presenting...
But:
Communicative Approach of Teaching is well known and recognized worldwide now. And it's the same efficient both in small and large classes.
Sure it could be CALL integrated if you and your students can afford it...
Furthermore, I'm sorry, but I consider practicing emails as a communication tool with may be more then 10 students or less - very tyring,inefficient and a bit outdated(http://tep.uoregon.edu/technology/engagement/inclassdisc.html).
The idea (Rick Rice and others) of using free forums (I could also recommend Lefora.com) or online chats (like f.e. Chatango.com) embedded into your wiki-site fit best for any group discussions. Size of class doesn't matter here.
As for web-based quizzes or Blackboard's (not available in ourlands so far),they still look more affordable and better to use with any number of students then proposed PPT-driven in-class games. Why? It's fun and may be amusing for 3-5 students. But if you have 40,70 or 100 and more?? Dividing'em in groups?
In my experience, I would prefer web based quizzes after the class or module - with immediate automated evaluation. F.e. for my last 2 ESP courses (70 BE and IT students total), I prepared all tests and quizzes with Quia.com and assigned with deadlines. Some simple embeddable tests, polls and quizzes you can make even with googledocs! But in-class (F2F) tests or exams are still compulsory as add-ons to that.
The last point:
I'm obssessed and very optimistic with using podcasts, vidcasts, webinars and on-line stream TV conferencing with any gadgets you and your students may have. Better than web-reading for teaching anyway!
But, believe me, nothing goes without your basic course intranet website(better wikisite, not a blog!), where you can embed or link up everything and everybody, meet(forums, chats, comments),share and communicate, teach and learn individually and to all...
Kind,
Irina
Overall:
I consider this week articles and resources very useful as they are making clear ways, instructions and methods of activating students learning while lecturing or presenting...
But:
Communicative Approach of Teaching is well known and recognized worldwide now. And it's the same efficient both in small and large classes.
Sure it could be CALL integrated if you and your students can afford it...
Furthermore, I'm sorry, but I consider practicing emails as a communication tool with may be more then 10 students or less - very tyring,inefficient and a bit outdated(http://tep.uoregon.edu/technology/engagement/inclassdisc.html).
The idea (Rick Rice and others) of using free forums (I could also recommend Lefora.com) or online chats (like f.e. Chatango.com) embedded into your wiki-site fit best for any group discussions. Size of class doesn't matter here.
As for web-based quizzes or Blackboard's (not available in ourlands so far),they still look more affordable and better to use with any number of students then proposed PPT-driven in-class games. Why? It's fun and may be amusing for 3-5 students. But if you have 40,70 or 100 and more?? Dividing'em in groups?
In my experience, I would prefer web based quizzes after the class or module - with immediate automated evaluation. F.e. for my last 2 ESP courses (70 BE and IT students total), I prepared all tests and quizzes with Quia.com and assigned with deadlines. Some simple embeddable tests, polls and quizzes you can make even with googledocs! But in-class (F2F) tests or exams are still compulsory as add-ons to that.
The last point:
I'm obssessed and very optimistic with using podcasts, vidcasts, webinars and on-line stream TV conferencing with any gadgets you and your students may have. Better than web-reading for teaching anyway!
But, believe me, nothing goes without your basic course intranet website(better wikisite, not a blog!), where you can embed or link up everything and everybody, meet(forums, chats, comments),share and communicate, teach and learn individually and to all...
Kind,
Irina
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