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Week 14, April 15, 2008 Class 13
This week is class begins the discussion about the final presentation and documents. It has been a work intensive class so far in terms of writing and critical thinking and presentation of ideas. The class schedule for the final weeks of class is as follows.
Class schedule
Week 14 Class 13 = Power Point & Audacity
Week 15 Class 14 = PDF portfolios = Room 815
Week16 Class 15= Open LAB
Week17 Class 16 = Presentations & Final Grades
The Presentation for the what we have learn and gotten out of the class so far is going to be particularly interesting because I am sure every students has a particular view about Technology and Education and what they have learned
Class 16 = 10 min presentation (3 min setup, 7 min presentation)
I think that a 7 min presentation is long. It will require an in depth discussion rather than just an overview.
Type of presentation
My past experience with presentation has been with Power Point. However power point does not have much sound capability. The Audacity + PDF combination seems more my style. This offers you both sound and slides. The teacher seems to be promoting the the Movie Maker presentation which automates everything. Basically it is a movie of slides with voice. It is the most intimidating of the three forms of presentation mainly because most students are not accustomed to this technology use in presentation.
= Power Point == You can talk & show slides
= Audacity + PDF == You can & recorded voice & PDF
= Movie Maker === You can show slides and run recorded voice
The content of the presentation covers several topics. Basically this gives us structure to build our presentation around which was sorely needed since we covered a lot of information and had many discussions on topics in class. Hopefully this gives us our 7 minutes worth of presentation time. Personally, I think the 7 minute number is too long. I think if week cover the information and say what we want to say in less than 7 minutes that should be enough. In the past the 7 minute time would not be set in concrete but because we now have the technology to with Audacity and Movie Maker to time ourselves students can have a better sense of how much time their presentations will actually take.
Content for Presentation
= This is how I define Education
= This is how I define Technology
= This is what I have learned about Technology in the Classroom
=What is good about T.I.T.C (Technology in The Classroom) Good or Bad
= One topic this semester that was very useful & why
==== This Assignment made me think about EDU
==== This Assignment made me think about Tech
In the final weeks of class I still have many things to do. I find because of the different technology that I must use it is actually intimidating and taking me longer to finish things. Most the technology is new to much or requires me to use it in ways I have not experience. There is a learning curve with any new technology and because of have so many different technology we must now integrate the learning curve is steep.
Things to Do
= Web Quest save – as HTML
= Blogs – Separate Entity
Presentation
= 1) Time
= 2) Address all topics
= 3) Maintain our attention
= 4) Completed assignments
For example I have used power point before but not with Screen Captures or with Transition slides. This is makes power point presentation more interesting and I wish I had known how to do them in the past. However this does not make a power point presentation more informative. This is true with most presentation technology. New things are make presentations more fun and easy but do not make it more instructive. However, an important part of a presentation is holding the interest of an audience. After all, you can not inform them if you bore them to sleep.
Power Point
= Slide Transition
= Screen Capture
Audacity is by far one of the most important technology finds for me. Sound and voice recording is not a new technology. It comes standard on most computers. What is amazing is that I learn I can use it in combo with Movie Maker. Movie Maker takes the slides and sound and runs it like a movie. I think this makes timing a presentation easier because of the timing devices built in. However, I feel a presentation is about the presenter and audience inter action. I love to ask questions and these technologies leave little room for questioning except after the presentation. Of course, you can “pause” but this will throw off the timing. There is no editing on the fly capability built into theses software.
Some points to note about the capability and use of the technology for the presentations.
Audacity is free
= File
= Export as mp3
= Title Presentation
= Take Note
= Write everything down
= Read
= in speech say “go to slide 1, 2 or 3.”
= Download Audacity from Web, its free, Audacity Download = 1.2
Movie Maker
= Movie Task = How long each clip will play
= Save movie wizard
= Best Quality
= Other setting
= Video large seems smaller size file
Power Point
= Custom Animation
= Add effect
= Insert
= Text Box
=No Pixilation = We can not have pixilation in our presentations or we should avoid it when ever possible.
=Animation = Transitions
Do use Transition Sound
<ctl> <prt-screen> = Capture Screen
Power point = save as other formats = jpeg
= Window movie maker
Power Point
= view
= Ruler
http://www.vtc.com/
Conclusion: I am happy to be introduced to new ways and forms of presentation. However, I find the more things change the more they stay the same. Presenters have all ways been concerned about the best way to inform their audience and increase their understanding. What all these technologies offer are easier ways to present information but the real work of organizing, gauging the audience understanding, and finding the best ways to use the technology is still left to the presenter. Maybe the next software upgrades will have ways to measure an audiences understanding, point of view and interest in a topic.
