Tonight we played with screenomatic. We played our presentation created on google drive and recorded Rochelle and I conversing about the presentation. Scary and fun all at the same time! I guess it will take time to get used to listening to myself =) I have to admit that learning all of these new tools to use is interesting. This concept could be used in my classroom. I'm still trying to figure out what it would offer to my students. To be quite honest, I'm struggling to see how to implement who I am into how to use technology into the classroom. I would like to dabble more with this type of system. I think it could be cool to use if mine could look like the one Garth used for our assignment last week. That was cool! I need to play to figure stuff out. Being told how to do something doesn't always sink in for me. Technology doesn't come easily to my non-electronic brain. I would even love to sit in on a day in Garth's class just to see how this can work in a classroom. I'm still not wrapping my brain around being so electronic. I feel inferior to teaching with it when I am well aware that many of my students may know more about it than I do. That makes me ask the question then: Is it ok for them to know more? Can I learn gracefully from my students? Is that acceptable?
I think that we could have done better on this screenomatic if we would have written a script. This would have cut down on the "umm's" and also in mapping out which slides we were going to spend time on and highlight which points. We could have done better. I know this now. It was a good experience though. There needs to be a first time for anything that you end up doing well in your life! I need to work on my voice too. Ha! I think had I been more deeply in tune with my topic and completely comfortable with it, it would have made a positive difference. Rochelle and I discussed too the importance of what is on slides. This presentation is meant to teach another staff member; therefore we were ok with having more text. We recognize that on presentations or powerpoint for students that the fewer words the better. I may need to look into how to write notes under the powerpoint that way I don't forget what I'm talking about connected to the minimal text.
I think that we could have done better on this screenomatic if we would have written a script. This would have cut down on the "umm's" and also in mapping out which slides we were going to spend time on and highlight which points. We could have done better. I know this now. It was a good experience though. There needs to be a first time for anything that you end up doing well in your life! I need to work on my voice too. Ha! I think had I been more deeply in tune with my topic and completely comfortable with it, it would have made a positive difference. Rochelle and I discussed too the importance of what is on slides. This presentation is meant to teach another staff member; therefore we were ok with having more text. We recognize that on presentations or powerpoint for students that the fewer words the better. I may need to look into how to write notes under the powerpoint that way I don't forget what I'm talking about connected to the minimal text.
I was introduced to thinglink this week. I find it fascinating to put bits of information, video, links, etc. into a picture that I can take on my own. I would love to use this in either math or social studies. I think in math I can have a pic of a normal everyday item that relates to math in ways that are not obvious. I could explain associations, send students to links to research other things that are math related in obscure ways. For social studies I think this would be a lot of fun to get fast facts on a place, people group, religion or time period. According to Garth's explanation I should be able to do this well. It seemed user friendly!