Lunch N' Learn: Rethinking Slides

Today's Lunch N' Learn focused on how to rethink SMARTboard slides and PowerPoint Slides.  Last week, we looked at how to rethink slides that are in front of students.  This week, two teachers have graciously provided one SMARTboard document and one PowerPoint presentation that we take a look.  Our goal is to rethink how the slides and presentation may appear.

PowerPoint:
Allows for Presenter View that looks like this:

What Your Audience Sees

What The Presenter Sees

Video Tutorial On How To Enable This


View Rethinking Of Slides

SMARTboard:

• Write on Smartboard slide normally by extending the page
• In summary, use the camera to take a picture of parts of the written text
• These pictures will be placed on new slides
• Write new steps on new slides
• Extend the slide but provide a single line on the white canvas

SEE EXAMPLE

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Lunch N' Learn: Rethinking Presentations

With the dissolving of SlideRocket, it is a great time to rethink how classroom content presentations are created.  More importantly, how do a teacher's presentations move the audience (students) to truly provide that "WAIT! WHAT?" (Meyer, 2013) thought!



Notes are included with this presentation.  To enable them, click on the gears and open in speaker notes.

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Large Group Instruction Area Digital Set Up Instructions Using Haiku Deck

Providing instructions to staff on how to complete digital products or processes is a major aspect of a #techcoach s job.  Our school recently updated the digital (computer/DVD/VCR) projection options in two of our Large Group Instruction (LGI) areas.

Haiku Deck became the go-to tool as it limits the words placed on a "slide" and the pictures are stunning.  Along with the Haiku Deck app, I incorporated the Skitch app as it allowed for new pictures to be enhanced by "notice markers", text, and arrows.

The finished product sent to staff is below...

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Meograph - Four Dimensional Storytelling

Many presentation tools exist and have been implemented in classrooms at our high school and middle school...

• Haiku Deck
• Explain Everything
• Smore
• iMovie
• Google Presentations
• Creation Apps
• MentorMob 2
• Thinglink

Meograph is another presentation tool.  Breaking down stories into moments.  Moments that allow for Four Dimensions of Storytelling consists of...

• Audio
• Visual
• Text/Links
• Maps/Timeline

How-To Video In 3 Minutes

My First Meograph


Causes Of The Civil War - High School Student Creation

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Haiku Deck Video Tutorial

I have offered Haiku Deck as a fantastic presentation tool for the iPad many times.

• Written Form To Explain Jasmine YouTube App
• High School English Paint Poetry
• Essentail Elements of Life In Physical Science
• AP Environmental Science

Our high school Chemistry teacher wanted a tool for an AP Chemistry Final Project to take pictures of the equipment/chemicals throughout the steps of the demonstration so a viewer could easily see and read the vital parts of the process.

Haiku Deck will be the perfect tool for this.

View the video tutorial of how to use Haiku Deck below...

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Haiku Deck For Paint Chip Poetry

Ever since our Lunch N' Learn topic was discussed using Haiku Deck in November 2012, many teachers and students have used the powerful presentation tool to create stunning pieces of information.

Today, one of our English teachers, Ms. Tubbs, created two Haiku Decks that provide insight into how students interpret poetry.  Students grabbed a color of paint and wrote the poem.

Fantastic!

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State Championship via SQWORL

SQWORL

GET ALL WEB LINKS DOCUMENTING 

PULASKI'S STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

NOTE: Some links will not work after 30 days due to newspapers terms of service

Made with Haiku Deck
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

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Sliderocket To Make A Sliderocket

A teacher wanted to know more about Sliderocket.  Below you will find complete details of all the features.


Very important aspect of using Sliderocket with students is to use the EDU account.  See how...


SlideRocket Player will allow for you to view a presentation from your iPad.  Connect your iPad to a digital projector via wireless or wired for all to see.  I will have my iPad with the presentation next to the teacher and the computer that they will be using.  Great reminder to show all tools in an organized manner.

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Haiku Deck Student Productions For "Essential Elements of Science"

As was mentioned in a previous post this week, one of our science teachers wanted students to create a presentation using the iPads and an app.  We used a Google Form to collect all of the final productions.

Some of the final Haiku Deck products are below.
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Wisconsin Rapids Immanuel Five Sectional iPad Training

Classroom Settings Sectional 1

Beginning iPad Sectional 2

iPad Apps Sectional 3

Single iPad Use Sectional 4

Digital Citizenship Sectional 5

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Haiku Deck For Essential Elements of Life

I had created a Haiku Deck presentation for our Lunch N' Learn and "A Blog To Make A Blog".

Today, in Mr. Lenz' class of Physical Science or Lab Science was our first setting for using Haiku Deck with students!  The teacher wanted the students to investigate "Essential Elements of Life" found on the periodic table.  We provided the students with a Google Drawing that organized their information into six slides.  Students completed research for these six slides and then placed important information on the Haiku Deck.

Positives of Haiku Deck:

• Stunning graphics
• Copyright free images related to words on slides
• Limits words on slides 
• Forces students to focus words to provide information
• Pictures say a thousand words

Negative of Haiku Deck:

• Accounts needed to view final products
• We created a classroom account

We used the gradual release method of teaching.  As a techcoach, I provided insight into the use of the tech tool the first two class periods.  During the third class period, the teacher demonstrated how the app worked.  I was in the classroom for tech support, but wasn't needed.  

We created a Google Form to collect the link that is provided by the final product of the Haiku Deck.

View the process and insight from the students on what they enjoyed about Haiku Deck.

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CheckThis and Smore For Digital Presentations

Students in another social studies class, presented some of their digital posters about U.S. Citizenship.



View some of the SMORE creations here and here  and some of the CHECKTHIS here and here.

The students did a fantastic job of making the digital posters come alive with pictures, text, and videos.

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UW-L Blended Learning Beyond The Device For 24-7 Access

Today, I was blessed to present to many people who are pre-service teachers and experienced teachers who are interested in a blended learning environment.  I was very impressed with the energy, enthusiasm, and    questions that all teachers displayed and asked.  It was a nice change in that I was able to give the philosophy of a blended learning environment and videos examples in a one hour presentation.  Tomorrow, I will follow up with a 2.5 hour session of how to create different tools, based on the teacher's/participatory's choice.  I like to think of it as a "Choose Your Adventure" opportunity.  This is a change, because in the past, I would have to cram all of the philosophy, examples, and how to into a two hour session.

Looking forward to it!

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Interactive Response Tools

Because I am presenting in two weeks on blended learning and ALL that it entails as I have scene it and experienced it last year, I sent this tweet out to my PLN.

I was blessed to receive a number of responses.  I am putting all of them in one area as a number of teachers may ask about this in the upcoming school year.

In no particular order:

• Socrative
• Today's Meet
• Nearpod
• Poll Daddy
• Smarttech Response
• SMART Response VE
• Answer Garden

I also learned about Larry Ferlazzo's Best of List for Response tools.

Since I do not know what type of device everyone will have or what the wireless connection will be like, I have decided to have two different methods of response.

My preferred method will be to use the Answer Garden tool.  I created a test question and the response shows up below.

I like the way it shows up in a word cloud, and I like the different options for exporting and keeping.  It is also a big plus that no creation of an account is needed.

For those that have a cell phone, I think I will stick with PollEverywhere for now.

I am truly thankful for the help that I received in learning about great tools for interacting with an audience.

Please consider following them:

• @lisettecasey
• @acihlar
• @TeachaKidd
• @jenlegatt
• @KristinStrauman
• @ShellyMowinkel
• @suser1

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