While reading through Module 6, I learned many new
and helpful things. I appreciated the PowerPoint about presentations. It is
always a great reminder to know how to present your material in a professional
and easily understood manner. In particular, the section about good and bad
graphs was very helpful because we are beginning to compile all of our action research into our results section
so this was a good tool to know which types of graphs I should include in my
paper. I also appreciated the research tutorial. We have had to use those
databases often during my graduate career, and at times, they can still be very
confusing or difficult to find “full text” articles. Therefore, your
presentation will remain a great resource when I am researching more the rest
of this semester.
I
agree with the powerpoint from Duke that your slides and Powerpoint
presentation should not deter from your presentation, rather they should
compliment and aid your presentation. I have witnessed presentations that do
distract the audience and take away from the speaker due to the colors,
animation or over concentrated information.
I had never heard of “Kid Pix” before,
but it seems like a great program for students to use. Any opportunity my
students have to get on a computer and create something, they become ecstatic.
So utilizing a great tool such as Kid Pix, would allow them computer exposure
along with creating a unique way to present different information they have
been researching. My students just finished a unit on the Georgia Regions and
using a program such as this would’ve been a great way for them to present
everything they have learned this year.
Lastly,
the web 2.0 tools were very helpful to all have in one place. I will reference
them again and introduce them to my students. They will welcome the chance to
work with computers and learn something new!
Lizzie- I have done a lot of PowerPoint presentations throughout school, but it is always good to be reminded of how to make an effective one. Sometimes it is difficult to make presentations straight and to the point, but it is important as not to distract the audience from the presenter. I actually did not even think about the fact that we are going to have a lot of numerical information coming from our action research project. That was an excellent point! Sometimes charts and graphs can definitely be hard to read, so this is something we will need to keep in mind in the near future as we complete our PowerPoint presentations.
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