"How will you, my students, share that you have learned the required content? How will you share what you learned about the similarities and differences between ________ and _______?"
"I thought about assigning an essay; but I did not want to read them" cheers from students "I next thought about having you create a cool website that showcased what you learned; but most of what you learned independently you learned from online sources... yours' would not add to the level of learning in a new way" interested, "where is he going" responses "Then I thought a google slide show!" cheers! "But I really did not want to be bored watching my students read from a slide show with too many words again! Who here has been bored after show after show is all 'blah, blah, blah blah, blah, blah blah'?" all hands go up! "Today, then we have the opportunity to try a new way of presenting, Powtoon..." Powtoon allows users to share information in a way that engages the audience. If done correctly, Powtoon focuses in images and a few words to communicate. If done poorly, it is no better than PowerPoint, Goggle slides, or any other presentation tool. As I presented the tool to students, I showed both quality examples and poor examples, based on my guidelines above. My students were sufficiently bored by the text heavy examples to not replicate these. (See one: poor example) To introduce the tool, I then invited the students to create their own free account which limits their tools on the site and limits them to under 5 minutes (which is great!). The students were then given the rest of the period to watch the tutorials, read the FAQs, and create fun, not-for-class Powtoons for themselves as a way of learning the tool. This play time is essential for helping the students learn the tool and help each other (yes, relating to the previous post, this does take time away from other curricula but in the long run may save time). The next day, the students, in pairs, were to start creating their class project. A rubric of content was shared to focus their first Powtoon. RESULTS:
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July 2017
CategoriesThis is me working on my classwork... usually at night after the heater is off.... sitting long times makes me cold!
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