Preparing a presentation:
What can the Digital Teaching Assistant do?
The Digital Teaching Assistant can be available whenever students are working on a presentation. DTA can collect intermediate products and make them available to the teacher or to other members of the work group. DTA can handle correspondence among the work group students and with the teacher. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
Education that often calls for a presentation
Support that may be provided
- Outline (Wikipedia)
- Powerpoint presentation
- Prepare a presentation
Flowchart for preparing a presentation
- Computational thinking or how to get along with computers
- Flowcharts (Wikipedia)
- DTA can provide the flowchart and collect intermediate products.
- Teacher can use intermediate products to monitor progress and provide feedback
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DTA monitored flowchart for preparing a presentation
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (vitrual worlds): Summary
- This flowchart can be used with individuals or student work-groups.
- Below are steps that student presenters may need to follow in preparing a presentation.
- Here they are presented as questions to be answered.
- Teachers might supply examples that fit the subject and education level.
- In use by the DTA, the questions would be provided as text boxes with space for an answer.
- Each box would have an expected draft date and expected completion date as set by the teacher.
- DTA would remind the student or work-group of upcoming deadlines.
- Yes, the students will be annoyed, but meeting deadlines is part of the world of work.
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- And the draft will draw feedback from the teacher to help meet the deadline.
- Teachers will want to add instructions suited to age level and subject.
- Teachers will probably want to provide examples in the appropriate content area.
Who is your audience?
- The teacher? Teachers? Parents? Other students? The general public?
- You need to think about how you will talk to this audience.
What is your theme?
- Write your concluding sentence
- What is the main conclusion you want people to take away.
- Sometimes this will suggest something for them to do.
What are the three ideas you want them to take away?
- List them
- They are usually items supporting the mail conclusion.
- Sometimes one tells what you want people to do.
Why will your audience be interested in these ideas?
- How would these things affect them?
- How can they use this information?
What is your hook?
- Narrative hook
- Just one or two sentences that stimulate curiosity or interest.
What are your sources?
- Just list the web links in order from best to worst.
- Search tips from a digital coach: DTA content page
What evidence will you cite?
- A short paragraph on each item
- For each item, why should the audience believe this evidence?
What concrete examples will you cite?
- A short paragraph on each item. Be clear: are these factual or illustrative?
What are your media options?
- In text form (PDF)
- Orally in class.
- Podcast (audio)
- Classroom Podcasting for the Middle Grades
- Slide-show in class.
- Video of slide-show presentation.
- Slide show devices on Kitely Market
- Video from relevant sites (MUVE or real)
- Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources
How will you distribute your product?
- File copy
- Video--YouTube
What will you put in your portfolio?
Write out the draft of your summary.
- The summary is one paragraph telling what the presentation is about: Theme, take-away points, conclusion.
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- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
- I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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