For this week’s activity, I created an example of the presentation I am going to have my students create for the 6 Traits of writing. I will be assigning each pair of students one of the six traits, so for my example presentation, I did the “plus 1” trait, which is presentation. This way the students can get an idea of what they will be doing, but I did not give them any information that I want them to research and discover on their own. I then added the example to my curriculum page http://mylovie.wikispaces.com/ so that my students can access it and use it as a model for their own presentations. If you would like to see my example Prezi on presentation, click the following link. http://prezi.com/rjwvbwebglhm/presentation
While completing this project, I learned three main things. The first knowledge I acquired was that saving pictures and scanning is more complicated than I expected. I ran into a few issues while trying to save pictures to include and while trying to upload my scans of the pages of text. I was able to problem solve to resolve these difficulties, but my eight and nine year old students may need help if they have trouble. This led me to the conclusion that if I am really going to do this project with my class, I should make sure it is a time when I can get a few parent volunteers to come to the computer lab and assist my students with the technology.
The next thing that I learned is that I still need some practice with non-Microsoft programs like Prezi. I made mistakes such as not italicizing the titles of the books, simply because when I pressed “control I,” the program did not automatically italicize for me. I will try to continue to explore new technologies so that I can become familiar with a variety of programs.
The third aspect I realized was that I am becoming skilled at creating examples for my students. When I first started teaching, I would make examples to the best of my ability and ended up with examples that were way above a 3rd grade level that would scare my students away from the project and would be too difficult to mimic. Now I am better at creating examples that seem like intelligent slightly above grade level work. My students see that they can achieve a product that is similar to mine, so they are excited to begin. They are also able to comprehend the text and vocabulary so they know what they are doing. I want to challenge my students, but I do not want to overwhelm them.
In conclusion, creating this example presentation helped me learn that my students are going to require assistance, my own skills in Prezi need work, and my example making skills are improving.
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