Presentation & Design
It's important that we as teachers explain these presentation "do's and dont's" to our students. Many of my students have gotten caught into the trap mentioned in these articles They have web pages that use garish combinations of colors, make PowerPoint Presentations with lots of cutesy clip art, annoying sound effects and confusing animations. In addition to design flaws, children often have trouble displaying content in meaningful ways. I've seen entire research papers copied onto slides and then read to the class or, even worse, a few bullet points read to the class with no elaboration about any of them.
In my classroom I try to use a lot of multimedia tools, which I hope models good presentation skills. We are working on presentation skills and I will often show students the wrong way to do things and let them explain to me what isn't working and how I could have done it differently.
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Lori,
It is definitely very important to teach these concepts to our students. I feel that it is even more necessary to model these practices for the students. When students see projects that are consistently well- designed they will be more likely to achieve higher quality work themselves.
It sounds like you have been using good practices with your students. Keep it up.
Hi!
I also think the more often you do these kinds of projects, and the more you have them talk about the process (as you're doing), the better they will become at keeping to good design principles. Many times I think their first couple times creating a MM presenation students want to do things because they can. They're playing (which is great-it's how they learn). But when we get beyond the technology being just a fun tool students can settle down and create strong presentations.
Adam
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