A faculty member and I are presenting at CIT next week and I am scrambling to put our notes into some coherent form for the presentation. At this precise moment I feel like I am "brainstorming" the presentation rather than working on our presentation content.
It presents a few dilemmas:
1. When I put together a presentation, I am obsessive about every little point I am going to make. This presentation has all the hallmarks of being a free-for-all, which worries me.
2. I enjoy working with this faculty member, and I'm afraid I am obsessing over the presentation because I want her to be impressed by my dazzling powerpoint skills and amazing organization of information. Ahem, that last part was a bit of an exaggeration, but I do want to impress her.
3. What I struggle with all the time; is this presentation worth the 30 minutes people are spending to hear it? Are we presenting information that is original, revelatory, and innovative? Will our talk inspire others to go out and incorporate technology into their class assignments?
My colleague and I are presenting a paper on our collaboration of the past three years. I worked with this faculty member to infuse technology skills into the class requirements, by teaching her students how to use and evaluate certain Web 2.0 tools. We started out with blogs, added RSS, then last semester created a library lab environment where students were working with blogs, RSS, wikis, podcasting, Adobe InDesign, and HTML. Its been an interesting evolution, watching each successive class of students play with the technology. In the beginning, the technology was really isolated from the class goals and assignments, but the instructor has worked hard to incorporate them into the objectives. Students use blogs to keep track of web trends, use RSS to monitor each others' blogs (as well as the blogs they are using for their research), create podcasts of audio content for the web, and use a class wiki to develop a communication tool for new visitors to the area. The results were students who now had a peer review process; monitoring and commenting on each others' blogs and writing about the process on their own blog. Using a wiki to create a group project where each student could review, edit and comment the group's work and using RSS to keep track of all this information. The class is a good model for Web 2.0 tools which can enhance and add value to the traditional classroom.
Now, how do I put this into a powerpoint? I guess just do it and stop obsessing...
It presents a few dilemmas:
1. When I put together a presentation, I am obsessive about every little point I am going to make. This presentation has all the hallmarks of being a free-for-all, which worries me.
2. I enjoy working with this faculty member, and I'm afraid I am obsessing over the presentation because I want her to be impressed by my dazzling powerpoint skills and amazing organization of information. Ahem, that last part was a bit of an exaggeration, but I do want to impress her.
3. What I struggle with all the time; is this presentation worth the 30 minutes people are spending to hear it? Are we presenting information that is original, revelatory, and innovative? Will our talk inspire others to go out and incorporate technology into their class assignments?
My colleague and I are presenting a paper on our collaboration of the past three years. I worked with this faculty member to infuse technology skills into the class requirements, by teaching her students how to use and evaluate certain Web 2.0 tools. We started out with blogs, added RSS, then last semester created a library lab environment where students were working with blogs, RSS, wikis, podcasting, Adobe InDesign, and HTML. Its been an interesting evolution, watching each successive class of students play with the technology. In the beginning, the technology was really isolated from the class goals and assignments, but the instructor has worked hard to incorporate them into the objectives. Students use blogs to keep track of web trends, use RSS to monitor each others' blogs (as well as the blogs they are using for their research), create podcasts of audio content for the web, and use a class wiki to develop a communication tool for new visitors to the area. The results were students who now had a peer review process; monitoring and commenting on each others' blogs and writing about the process on their own blog. Using a wiki to create a group project where each student could review, edit and comment the group's work and using RSS to keep track of all this information. The class is a good model for Web 2.0 tools which can enhance and add value to the traditional classroom.
Now, how do I put this into a powerpoint? I guess just do it and stop obsessing...
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