https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd
Personal Journey with Prezi
Since I have never used Prezi before I started my exploration by Googleing the phrase “Prezi and education” and then “Prezi and classroom.” My second search term gave me a great hit that offered 17 different ways that Prezi could be used in the classroom by students or during staff meetings for presentations. After going through and reading this document, it was time for me to log into my Prezi account and start exploring all the different tools and features before introducing it to my students (Kist, 2010). I began by watching the three tutorials offered by Prezi several times and then created my own Prezi presentation titled “What We should have for Supper?” This was a really fun learning activity for me and it made my family laugh when I presented it to them. One of the features that made Prezi really fun to work with is the ability to embed YouTube videos right in to the presentation (Yee, 2010). It was interesting to note that my family had a great deal of fun and enjoyment watching it, at times they were actually laughing out loud. Watching their reaction I knew that this presentation tool was going to be a hit with my students.
Professional Application of Prezi
After reading https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd I came up with a great idea for how I was going to utilize this amazing tool with my students. Our first unit in Language Arts focuses on reading skills and writing reader responses. I thought I would have my students create an outline of the book they are reading using both text and images. The purpose of this project was to allow students to visualize the order of events in their books, to write accurate summaries of those events, and then to write a short belief statement about a lesson that they might have learnt from the book.
Personal Journey with Prezi
Since I have never used Prezi before I started my exploration by Googleing the phrase “Prezi and education” and then “Prezi and classroom.” My second search term gave me a great hit that offered 17 different ways that Prezi could be used in the classroom by students or during staff meetings for presentations. After going through and reading this document, it was time for me to log into my Prezi account and start exploring all the different tools and features before introducing it to my students (Kist, 2010). I began by watching the three tutorials offered by Prezi several times and then created my own Prezi presentation titled “What We should have for Supper?” This was a really fun learning activity for me and it made my family laugh when I presented it to them. One of the features that made Prezi really fun to work with is the ability to embed YouTube videos right in to the presentation (Yee, 2010). It was interesting to note that my family had a great deal of fun and enjoyment watching it, at times they were actually laughing out loud. Watching their reaction I knew that this presentation tool was going to be a hit with my students.
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After reading https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd I came up with a great idea for how I was going to utilize this amazing tool with my students. Our first unit in Language Arts focuses on reading skills and writing reader responses. I thought I would have my students create an outline of the book they are reading using both text and images. The purpose of this project was to allow students to visualize the order of events in their books, to write accurate summaries of those events, and then to write a short belief statement about a lesson that they might have learnt from the book.
Using Lucy Calkins approach to teaching reading, I began our lesson by showing my students the Prezi presentation that I made about last night’s supper dilemma. Just like my family, my students had a blast watching the presentation and even started voting on what they thought we ate (this became my anticipatory set). Our next step was to co-create an outline for our read aloud book entitled The Twits by Roald Dahl. Once again my students had a blast finding the pictures and brainstorming the order of events as they appeared in the book. Once we had outlined all the main events of the book on the board, each pod of students was given the task of coming up with a caption that would best match their event along with a matching image. After twenty minutes or so all the groups were done and we started building our co-constructed Prezi presentation on The Twits (Calkins, 2001).
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Students took turns coming up to my computer (which projects to my SMART Board) and inputting their information into our presentation. This was an extremely fun activity as we got to share our thoughts about the book, the characters and the actual creation of our show. As an educator, I realized that my students had a firm understanding of the events which took place in the book along with the meaning and purpose behind each of the characters actions. I am well aware that this could have been done using the traditional pencil and paper route; however, the level of student engagement would not have been the same, classroom management may have been an issue and let’s face it this was fun for my students and I.
References
Calkins, L. (2001). The art of teaching reading / Lucy McCormick Calkins ; photographyby Peter Cunningham. New York : Longman, c2001.
Kist, W. (2010). The socially networked classroom : teaching in the new media age / William Kist ; foreword by Kylene Beers. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2010.
YEE, K., & HARGIS, J. (2010). PREZI: A Different Way to Present. Turkish Online Journal Of Distance Education (TOJDE), 11(4), 9-11.
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