7 Steps to a Flat Classroom: The Presentation
I've given several presentations lately and, although I'm posting these on my personal wiki, I thought some of you would like to see the slides.
Flat Classroom Mashup/ 7 Steps to a Flat Classroom
This was given last night at the Discovery Educators presentation.
Julie and I talking about Flat Classroom 2007 as we mashup Pink and Friedman
If you want to hear Julie Lindsay and I present the first part of this, I have an elluminate recording from today when she and I presented to some teachers in North Carolina. You'll hear Julie and I talk about this year's Flat Classroom project structure, organization, and methods.
You can see all of my slideshows on slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/slideshows.
Putting a little Zen in It
I've been reworking all of my presentations (and changing how I teach presentations), based upon Garr Reynolds' amazing book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
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Don't be put off by how many slides some of my presentations have, it is more slides, less talking, actually. Think of it as if you're a live narrator for a documentary!
If you look at my presentation from last Tuesday at the Center for Quality Teaching and Learning, the first 14 slides literally take 1 minute and 20 seconds. I did them for my students as a demonstration -- and they agreed it is a much better way to present, although it is very different!
It is about using graphically appealing slides along with two other items: speakers notes (detailed notes for me-- although I usually practice to the point I don't need them) and handouts (I like to use Google notebook -- see mine from last Tuesday.)
Garr talks about not producing "sliduments" but have a "document" to hand out.
My intro:
How I teach Presentation Zen
Slideshows aren't Downloadable!
I've had some people e-mail me about downloading my slideshows. As much as I'd love to give them away, I am now using istockphoto for some of the graphics and need to make sure that I respect the agreement that I make with the photographers there. So, I cannot GIVE them to you to present, however, I CAN share them with you to give you your own ideas. (And yes, I still use creative commons search, however, istock photo is just so FAST and they have great pictures.)
I wish there was a way to easily mark or delineate the slides I can give you and those that are the copyrighted pictures... that is the struggle with these things!
tag: Garr Reynolds, presentation zen, Julie Lindsay, flat classroom, flatclassroom, presentations, education, teaching, coolcatteacher, innovation, teacher
Flat Classroom Mashup/ 7 Steps to a Flat Classroom
This was given last night at the Discovery Educators presentation.
Julie and I talking about Flat Classroom 2007 as we mashup Pink and Friedman
If you want to hear Julie Lindsay and I present the first part of this, I have an elluminate recording from today when she and I presented to some teachers in North Carolina. You'll hear Julie and I talk about this year's Flat Classroom project structure, organization, and methods.
You can see all of my slideshows on slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/slideshows.
Putting a little Zen in It
I've been reworking all of my presentations (and changing how I teach presentations), based upon Garr Reynolds' amazing book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
. Don't be put off by how many slides some of my presentations have, it is more slides, less talking, actually. Think of it as if you're a live narrator for a documentary!
If you look at my presentation from last Tuesday at the Center for Quality Teaching and Learning, the first 14 slides literally take 1 minute and 20 seconds. I did them for my students as a demonstration -- and they agreed it is a much better way to present, although it is very different!
It is about using graphically appealing slides along with two other items: speakers notes (detailed notes for me-- although I usually practice to the point I don't need them) and handouts (I like to use Google notebook -- see mine from last Tuesday.)
Garr talks about not producing "sliduments" but have a "document" to hand out.
My intro:
How I teach Presentation Zen
- Demonstrate the technique -- I have my students time my intro of myself and ask them to guess how many slides I use.
- Elicit emotion with at least one slide - I end the presentation with my picture of the shark (slide #14).
- We talk about the principle of thirds, share lots of examples, talk about Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity, and just look at a lot of Garr's work. We also talk about full bleeding off of the page.
- We discuss scripting and storyboarding.
- I give them super sticky notes and the storyboard pages. They brainstorm about their topic with their group and sketch out ideas on the sticky notes -- most use walls or desks to stick them in the order that they think they want. When they are done and have settled on the order, I have them stick it on the storyboard pages and flesh it out a little more. (This is why you need the supersticky notes!)
- THEN, they go into PowerPoint -- not before!
Slideshows aren't Downloadable!
I've had some people e-mail me about downloading my slideshows. As much as I'd love to give them away, I am now using istockphoto for some of the graphics and need to make sure that I respect the agreement that I make with the photographers there. So, I cannot GIVE them to you to present, however, I CAN share them with you to give you your own ideas. (And yes, I still use creative commons search, however, istock photo is just so FAST and they have great pictures.)
I wish there was a way to easily mark or delineate the slides I can give you and those that are the copyrighted pictures... that is the struggle with these things!
tag: Garr Reynolds, presentation zen, Julie Lindsay, flat classroom, flatclassroom, presentations, education, teaching, coolcatteacher, innovation, teacher
