Week 5 - Group 3 - Presentation

Hey guys it's Jess. 

Glogster: Kirschty Birt

This week we looked at 2 different groups of technologies which means I will be uploading twice this week. Firstly I'm going to look at group 3 the presentation side of technologies. There were three different presentations to chose from powerpoints (which I have done and done and done in high school), Glogster which was an interesting new way to 'blog' where you can insert pictures and videos for your students to view. There was also Prezi, which I have decided to look at in more depth this week. 

Prezi
I have seen Prezi used before however I never knew how they worked. So I created two different Prezi's. One was for students when creating a family tree, this was a really rough thing and I was not impressed with what I did. So I decided to create another Prezi which is about Story Writing. You can view them here.

Prezi would be a great technology to use in the classroom instead of having powerpoints everyday or new topic. Prezi allows interaction by the students and can allow students to understand a topic a lot better through step by step interaction with Prezi. 

Prezi may also allow you to create interaction through questions, such as a quick maths quiz with certain answer with yes move on or even opps let's try that one again. Giving the students their own time to think and fix their own mistakes. 
All these types of presentations would uses cognitive and affective knowledge. 

Using the Revised Cognitive Domain from Bloom's Taxonomy when using these presentations in class the learning manager (you and I) can use all of the categories to help students understand.

Revised Cognitive Domain:

(Big Dog, Little Dog, 2013)

By using different presentation sources it gives the students the enthusiasm to achieve as their attitude towards the topic/s will change. By using the same presentation (powerpoint, Prezi etc.) throughout the entire term for topic after topic the students will get bored and lose interest in what they are being taught. 

Using presentations in the classroom students can become engaged and interested in topics they may never have heard of before or become more interested in topics they were already interested in. 

See you in just a few minutes.

Jess.

References:
Big Dog, Little Dog. (2013). Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains. Retrieved from: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html#cognitive