Short Presentations

Learning Literary Genres

I was excited to see that we got to work with PhotoStory on one of our assignments because I am very familiar with this software. I first worked with Microsoft Photo Story in Dr. Lindstrom's class and fell so in love with it that I've used the program not only for in the classroom but for personal stories, my sister's bachelorette party, and other festivities. This assignment modeled digital age work and learning. Teachers can no longer present their information through text book assignments and lectures, our 21st century students need something more. By presenting information in digital age media and formats, this makes our digital learners become more engaged in the information presented to them.
I've never been a fan of hearing my own voice being recorded. One thing I would of changed about the assignment would be the 20 seconds per slide. Some slides I felt rushed, others I felt like I was talking turtle speed...but I get the whole 20 on 20. Without these guidelines students would either make a 3 or 30 minute presentation.
The information in my presentation follows the WV CSOs for learning literature genres in 7th grade RLA so this video would be great to present to my SEE 7th grade RLA class this coming year.