Tonight Julio, Cat, and Joey started off the class' presentations; courageous individuals indeed.I utilized the strategy of signing up for the last presentation date.
Julio used a PowerPt. and started by asking for questions on the homework or what we wanted to learn about Newsela. He then put the questions to the side saying he would come back to them after the presentation to be sure the questions had been answered. I often used this technique when presenting and always found it a great way to close and bring the teaching full circle.
Cat covered Livebinder which I could see being very useful if I could figure out how to open my binder. I was able to create an account and upload some docs and links into a binder called Reiki but once I closed out I kept cycling back to the tutorial page when I tried to open the binder. The site was not especially intuitive to me so I will need to set some time aside to work out the navigation. I do see how it could be a better way of organizing my materials than just putting everything into a folder on my desktop.
Joe showcased Edublogs which is a site I used for another one of my Educational Technology (EDT) courses. Joe started out using Padlet to ask us what we currently use to communicate with our students and what other communication tools we would like to know more about. I thought this was a nice opportunity to get the conversation started and like that it was interactive. I do think though that the second question took the focus off using blogs and eat up some time he wanted to use for discussing a resource at the end of the presentation. Joe choosing to show us how to pick a theme and how to make a blog entry was a great way to keep it simple while helping us to get to know the site.
I came away with some new tools to use for both my own presentation and in my teachings. I'm going to refocus my presentation and include tips for teachers on how to use breath and mudra in the classroom.
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