Week 5: Pecha Kucha - Gesundheit

So sorry that this is late. My mom had an accident and I've been dealing with that. She's fine, just lost two teeth and got three stitches to put her lip back together.

Anyways, about this week. I'm having trouble getting my Pecha Kucha to a low enough file size to upload it to the Angel site. I've tried three different formats and various settings within each. I'm going to try to upload to voicethread and see if that helps.

I still need to finish up my multimedia rubric. I'm using a project that I already have a rubric for and updating it. I use Rubistar to make my rubrics and then download them to Excel to clean them up and do the final editing.

I enjoyed working with my group to look at pocket camcorders. I like this technology and think it is very useful and affordable for schools.

Week 4: The plot thickens

I am really excited about using Prezi. I am in love with the functionality of this tool! I am a little flustered by the Pecha Kucha. I want to make it something I'm enthusiastic about, so I chose my cats (I'm such a crazy cat lady!)

I really wish we had made a great digital story from start to end throughout this class. I think that would have helped me to use digital storytelling in my classroom next year.

I loved looking at the sample presentations in Pres. Zen. They were helpful for getting a big picture idea of what a good presentation looks like. Then, watching the Ted videos gave me a full circle look at what it LOOKS like to be a good presenter.

I am feeling more confident in my ability to create and give a great presentation. I am still not so sure about my ability to create a great digital story, much less teach a student how to do so. I'm guessing this will come with research and practice.