Plan for a modern presentation in a digital world.
For presenters and inquiry/project-based learning.
A plan for using the affordances of digital worlds and other digital support in making a presentation. The plan may be of special interest to teachers using inquiry-based or project-based learning.
- Watch on YouTube
- Affordances of virtual worlds can make a more effective presentation. From OpenSim Community Conference (OSCC)
- Transcription of video to text: VidReader
Possible objectives of a presentation
Social good
- Impart information or ideas to an audience.
- Entertain an audience with information or ideas.
- Get the reactions of others to the presentation to improve it.
- Get the views of others about the ideas for further development.
- Get the views of others about the information.
Individual good
- Partly satisfy an educational requirement.
- Build a portfolio. (students and professionals)
- Income from fees. (presenter and organizers)
- Favorable reputation. (sponsoring institution)
Affordances of a digital place for presentations
- Affordances of virtual worlds can make a more effective presentation. From OpenSim Community Conference (OSCC)
- Seven major educational affordances from virtual worlds and how they can work together
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Saves time, money, health, carbon
- Nobody travels--the location is on a computer.
- All the time is spent productively, none on travel.
- No travel costs, negligible venue costs.
- No exchange of germs
- Small carbon footprint
Video capture of any part
- Preserves for reuse and wide dissemination
- Captures for review and improvement
Multiple text streams are available and recordable.
- Public chat shares comments with everyone.
- An assistant can handle requests for help.
- Other assistants can handle questions and comments.
- Each assistant can have a separate text channel
Supporting web affordances
- Web posting for videos: YouTube or institution web site
- Transcription of video to text: VidReader
- Blog: Background, web links, "slides," notes, videos, inworld display
Blog uses
- Present background in advance: bios, web links, "slides."
- Present "slides" during presentation.
- Digital worlds allow easy display of web pages as posters.
- No slides--you walk along a row of posters and the audience follows.
- Present results: Videos, text Q and A, audience insights.
- Visible part of presenter's bibliography (not mere citation in vita)
- Visible contribution to knowledge by sponsoring institution.
Roadmap
Before the event
- On the blog post background resources and promotional announcements.
- Be sure to give the time, time zone, and location.
- Mention the kinds of people who might be interested.
- Repost the blog article to social media. I use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
- Any sponsoring organization will have its own outlets.
- Develop the "slides" as blog pages. On those pages, include links to supplementary information.
- Unless you have a reason to withhold the pages, make them publicly available.
- If your goal is to inform people, you don't care when they get informed.
At the event
- Arrange to make a video of the presentation.
- You will need a videographer to manage the camera.
- Put the blog pages on posters and put those out in a row before the presentation.
- No "Next slide please." No "How do I go back to that slide."
- Note that you can use virtual objects instead of posters
- Sure, people will sometimes turn their attention away from you to a poster.
- Are you more important than the information?
- They may miss some important point. That is what the video is for.
- Pause about every 10 minutes and invite questions.
- Collect questions by telling people to send questions to an assistant in private chat.
- The assistant can clarify and organized the questions for a better Q/A session.
- The assistant should also save the questions for later use on the blog.
- Questions and answers are the main thing offered by a live presentation.
- The videographer could cut and restart recording at the end of each Q/A session.
- Thus the presentation would be in 4 or 5 sections, each focused on particular topics.
After the event
- Post the videos on YouTube or on the web site of the sponsoring institution.
- Embed each video on a blog page along with the saved questions.
- You may also want to include a transcript (VidReader).
- A video is not scanned into search, but a text transcript may be scanned.
- In writing the abstract be sure to include all the important key terms.
Student presenters
- This model may be particularly useful in project/inquiry-based learning.
- Especially if the students are working in a digital campus.
- Projects and inquiries often result in presentations.
- Presentations in digital worlds are prepared, presented, and recorded at negligible cost.
- Such presentations develop and demonstrate the skills of the students.
- The video and blog post can be captured and given to each student, building student portfolios.
- The video and blog post can be accessed and evaluated by student families.
- The institution can aggregate the products from it digital campus as evidence of its educational achievements.
Related
- How many avatars can we get into a meeting?
- VWMOOC (previously SLMOOC ) Connecting in Virtual Worlds, Communities of Practice
- Web-worlds and a MOOC: update for 2018
- Conferences, the web-world version
- Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium. And some suggestions.
- Can virtual worlds support large lecture classes? The past is not the future
- Streamcasting live video. Bring Second Life to the web
Visit me on the web
- 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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