Improving+Student+Presentations

=Improving Student Presentations (S. Allen)= Ken Rodoff Springfield Township School District

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Used shoulder partner to get audience engaged.
 * Hollywood Name - middle name, street you grew up on
 * Quality of good presentation ... slides, delivery
 * humor, eye contact, slides less text, animation, less text, big text

Kids come equipped with stories. How can we give them tools to express themselves? Templates are beautiful but confining. =Banned templates, banned bullets, banned layouts, banned clipart, banned word art - only choice is plain white template. =

Message & design

 * What is it that you want the audience to remember? What is the take away?
 * Very hard question for students the first time they are asked!
 * Use inspiration to plan the process - template on his website
 * Need a hook for the audience
 * Teach how to find copyright friendly images that have an emotional connection to audience or content
 * Slides should not give away topic!
 * TIME! Rehearse and practice - even better
 * PowerPoint interventions!!!
 * What images and text will enforce your message?

Resources to explore

 * Websites
 * [|Imagechef]
 * Flickr creative commons portal flickr.com/creativecommons
 * four portals to select from via license - attribution license - Ken's first choice
 * search with adjectives, descriptively
 * Flickrstorm
 * search by term - pulls quality images that are not inappropriate - click on advanced - can search by license
 * teacher can create tray (batch of images) - generates url of images that teacher has approved