SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE POST
New “things”: Part 2
3. Rethink PowerPoint and other presentation strategies. Attack the presentation culture in your school or district. Is everyone forced to either listen to or deliver bullet-driven PowerPoint? Are you exploring other presentation options? Have you considered other strategies for improving standard presentation tools? You have options and you can take the lead. Share some background reading on PowerPoint reform:
- Presentation Zen
- PowerPoint Extreme Makeover (by Dean Shareski)
- Cliff Atkinson: Beyond Bullets
- Tom Peters on Presentation Excellence
- Gettysburg Address PowerPoint (What might happen if Lincoln got into bad communication habits)
- Stop Your Presentation Before it Kills Again
- Creative Commons Presentations (cool models)
- TED.com (Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers make terrific models for presenting)
4. Podcast your booktalks or book reviews or get your students to do it. Use Apple’s Garage Band or the free editing and recording program, Audacity. See my post on Booktalking 2.0. Consider using slideshow tools like VoiceThread to very quickly create illustrated booktalks to share widely, perhaps for your state’s best books lists.
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Some wonderful examples of this thing include:
- Bookwink.com
- Just One More Book
- Runkle School Book Review Podcasts
- Nancy Keane’s Book Talks Quick and Simple
- Readers Circle Booktalks (Pike School)
- Hopkinton High/Middle Schools
- Portland Public Schools
5. Tell a digital story (or inspire student storytelling projects) Amazing work is done in this new media-rich genre for communication. You can use a tool like VoiceThread for this one too. Examine state-of-the-art in the creation and sharing of narrative. For example, take a look at the personal narrative Mom Not Mom, this story about The Gettysburg Address or these or these.
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- Elements of Digital Storytelling
- Marco Torres’ iCan Film Festival
- Apple Video Journalism
- 50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine–CogDogRoo)
This modest list is just a beginning. Please share your own ideas and examples!
Filed under: Uncategorized
About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
ADVERTISEMENT
SLJ Blog Network
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers: A Fall 2024 Preview
Unicorn Boy | Review
Take Five: Middle Grade Nonfiction
The Classroom Bookshelf is Moving
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT