Assignment Two: Digital Media Presentation

Part 1

This assignment was all about learning to effectively use a digital media presentation tool like PowerPoint to put together an interesting lesson. The original file was three slide presentation that needed a little bit of work to make it more interesting. My major changes are:

1. Broke the information down into smaller, simpler chunks and spread it out over a greater number of slides (from 3 slides to 7 slides).
2. Added pictures to supplement the story.
3. Focused on the human interest element with a personal survivor story.
4. Created a graphic to illustrate the ecological changes, as opposed to just having bulleted points.
5. Used a thematic font for the headlines and brief color changes to highlight the headlines.

Part 2

The second part of this assignment was to create an account on http://www.slideshare.net and publish the completed PowerPoint presentation, with references. This is the address to access that:

http://www.slideshare.net/teachlearnshare/crowsnest-fire-improved

Welcome!

Welcome to my Education 3508 blog! I have begun this blog to record my thoughts, ideas and feelings with all aspects of my PS1 experience.

It is only a week into the semester and I have already felt such a myriad of emotions regarding this journey. I am delighted, overwhelmed, scared, excited and so much more. I hope that I have everything it takes to be an exceptional teacher, to make a difference in the life of at least one child.

This whole blogging thing is pretty new to me. I am an avid social networking site user, Facebook being my particular brand of addiction but I have never been one to share all my feelings and thoughts online before. I definitely see the usefulness of this medium and I am looking forward to exploring the ways blogging can be used in the classroom to further enhance the children's education.

This is the first assignment, with all assignments due on the last day of class, November 5th, 2009.