This week’s activity in my EME 5050 master’s class we had to focus on digital story telling. We had to use either a slide share program that is very similar to PowerPoint or use Prezi to create a story to show how digital storytelling helps our students. Since I am already very perspicacious in PowerPoint, I decided to use Prezi to create my presentation. Prezi was very user friendly. After I watched the two minute tutorial I was ready to complete this assignment. I learned two great ways that I can incorporate this into my classroom.
First, I learned a great tool to use in my class. I think I will take my students to the media center and have them try this project with a topic from my American History class. We are coming to Industrialization in my American History class. I have never really been able to find something fun and engaging about Industrialization to use with my class. There are about five or six different topics I need to cover about industrialization. I will be able to divide up my class and have each group complete a project using this program. Then each group will share their projects with the class. Second, I could create my own Prezi slideshows that my students could access from their home computers. This will allow them to get any missing work and allow them to go back and revisit any concept in class they did not understand.
This was a great project, and I can’t wait to use this in my classroom. I have embedded the Prezi below.
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Here is a link as well. http://prezi.com/qfr1kjioh-5_/digital-story-telling/
<div class="prezi-player"><style type="text/css" media="screen">.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }</style><object id="prezi_qfr1kjioh-5_" name="prezi_qfr1kjioh-5_" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf%22/%3E%3Cparam name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"/><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=qfr1kjioh-5_&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0"/><embed id="preziEmbed_qfr1kjioh-5_" name="preziEmbed_qfr1kjioh-5_" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=qfr1kjioh-5_&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0"></embed></object><div class="prezi-player-links"><p><a title="" href="http://prezi.com/qfr1kjioh-5_/digital-story-telling/%22%3EDigital Story Telling</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com%22%3eprezi%3c/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div>
Here is a link as well. http://prezi.com/qfr1kjioh-5_/digital-story-telling/
For someone who is very perspicacious in Power Point, I thought the presentation was without any "wow" factor. Am I not looking at the completed project? You also may want to credit google for your images. I have seen that bus picture about anytime I google images of students. I called a graphics company in my town out about it, because they worked it into an ad they did that is posted in a Beef O Brady's bathroom.
ReplyDeleteI think the content is really direct. I don't see any elements of story telling in your presentation. You define what it is, but where do you encorporate those elements?
Aaron H
I completely agree with this statement Prezi was very user friendly. After I watched the two minute tutorial I was ready to complete this assignment. The video was a very easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial about all the tools to make a Prezi. I felt that the Prezi presentation was easier to put together than a PowerPoint. I spent most of the night thinking of new ways to use the tool in the future.
ReplyDeleteYour statement, “…could create my own Prezi slideshows that my students could access from their home computers. This will allow them to get any missing work and allow them to go back and revisit any concept in class they did not understand.”, made me delighted to hear. I only wish more teachers would have the presence of mind to do this. As a parent of a 5th and a 7th grader, I would love for their teachers to have this on their website. The idea of using it for a review for a concept taught in class is an idea that’s time has come; technology is finally starting to make a huge impact on education in the classroom.