This week I really enjoyed working with the Prezi website. While the website was very finicky to work with at the start, after playing around with it I somewhat became a pro. I know the easiest way to have learned it would have been reading tutorials, but that is never fun. I like the concepts on the page and I really think that I can utilize this in my Digital Imaging class because students can host their whole assignments on one page. Fun for students to work with and easy for me to grade.
The Pecha Kucha storyboard was fun because I haven't done it in a while. I reminded myself why I harp on my kids to fill out the storyboard very detailed because it makes the process a lot easier when you go to finish the whole presentation. It will be interesting to create the final Pecha Kucha to the exact time, but it will be something I will have to work with.
Finally, the last chapters of Presentation Zen were very interesting. Gar stressed the idea that you must be able to "present" to your audiences. I totally agree with that because a great powerpoint with a bad presenter is the exact same concept of a bad powerpoint with a great presenter.
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I agree tutorials, like directions are for women! I think that they are boring. Honestly though, I did attempt to sit through the ten minute tutorial but ended up skipping everything two minutes into it. I find that playing around with the tool on my own terms helps me to better understand it rather than someone telling me. Great minds think alike Nick!
ReplyDeleteI really like your comment about storyboarding. I think it is easy for us, and our students, to try to jump right into the project, without really thinking it through. Something that is as rigid as Pecha Kucha would be very difficult to complete successfully without storyboarding first!
ReplyDeleteHuh. Your point about a great slide show with a bad presenter is the same as a great slide show with a bad presenter really rang home for me. I am one of those people who will actually glue my eyes on a presenter in order to stay focused. Combine that with my struggles to swallow information via audio presentation, it really wouldn't make a bit of difference to me how good the slide show was if the presenter was bad. Take for instance the annual Blood Born Pathogens presentations. REALLY bad cslide show there, but there are parts of the presentation I can pay attention to because of the way the presenter is animated or the humor that is injected, and other times...well, anything but what he is talking about it going through my head.
ReplyDeleteThe same thing is true in my classroom. When I need to present quite a bit of material to my kids, efficiency rules and eyes glaze over quickly. But, when I can take the time to relax, be more animated, change my voice, or interject some humor and names of students, I think I could be doing a lecture on continuous and discrete functions (for 7th graders) and still keep their attention.