Wow, there were some amazing powerpoints today. Every person brought something to the table today, and it was good.
-Kristin had some great color combos.
-Mikey had the best sounds, for sure!
-Andy's pictures correlated really well and the color combination worked really well.
-Ian did some amazing things with arrows! And I was especially impressed by his smart art-making Optimus Prime rotate the opposite way as the outside arrows... very cool.
-Alison put together a very organized powerpoint, and I especially liked the lines pointing to the vocab words. And nice find on the video!
-Paul's backgrounds were fantastic... definitely my favorite backgrounds. I also really liked the red cirles that he used to compare traits of birds. I really liked the video too, especially the song. And how did he do that with the moving animals??? Too cool!
-Amy had some really good pictures and good background colors. She totally got me excited to learn about probability. I need to know how the birthday stats work!
-Trevor had a really good picture of two cats which correlated perfectly with his topic. Plus, the Numonic device was used quite well.
-Ibrahim used the powerpoint perfectly to set up his question about the table salt.
The least engaging thing I saw was when people would would look at the smart board and read directly off of it. I think I did that once or twice, but I tried to make it flow. Ibrahim might try printing off some notes so that he doesn't have to read directly from the board.
I thought I put a lot of hard work into my own powerpoint, so I was surprised to find how much better my classmates did on their powerpoints. I knew that I wouldn't have the best, but I didn't think I would be so far from the rest of the group. I think I would have had more lines and circles, like Paul and Alison. I think my color combination was pretty basic, so it did not enhance the powerpoint like it did in Andy's, Paul's, and Kristin's. Additionally, and most importantly, I would have had more movement. And when I learn how to, I will start adding sounds.
I do like using PowerPoint as a lesson presenter. Sitting in as a student today, watching my classmates powerpoints, I thought they did a good job to enhance my learning experience. They kept me enganged and kept my attention. However, in order to make a PowerPoint work, you need to put a it together well. Putting my PowerPoint together took a lot of time, and it was only mediocre. So the pro is that it has the potential to keep the attention of the students, but the con is that it might take too much time to be worth it.
I feel that I should start this comment off right by making fun of you! SO, you should definitely look up the proper spelling for "Numonic". Just a suggestion...cause you're a little off :)
ReplyDeleteReading this kind of makes me sad that I missed everyone's presentations because from what you said it seems like each person had at least one strong creative element to the design of their presenation that would have provided me with some good ideas for future presentations.
Although I didn't see the presentations I agree with your comment that there's often an unfortunate tendency (even for me, anal PowerPoint woman) for people to stare at their own presentation and talk at it rather than at the audience. That is probably best remedied by putting so little text on each slide that there is nothing to read!
I'm sure yours wasn't as inferior as you're making it sound like here. Everyone is creative in a different way and your probably had elements that other presentations didn't have. It's definitely worth the time, as long as it's something you can reuse!