COETAIL--Refining a Wakame Presentation
Another post toward obtaining my Certificate in Educational Technology and Information Literacy (COETAIL)
This week I'll be visiting an international school in Tokyo to talk about poetry to grade 3 students and wakame seaweed and The Wakame Gatherers to grade 4 students as part of their healthy eating unit. With poetry I usually let the words talk, let the words take center stage, so I rarely include images in poetry presentations.
For my wakame presentations, however, I use lots of photos from my years of observing wakame cultivation and wakame gathering on the beaches in Kamakura. I take the audience on a virtual journey to Kamakura and show them the steps of the wakame cultivation process and independent wakame gathering.
I have all the images. I've presented on wakame many times. But my PowerPoint needed some sprucing up.
Previously the wakame presentation was full of slides consisting of photos accompanied by some text. In my presentation revision, I cut the words from all except three of the forty slides. The text was completely superfluous.
I also enlarged all of the photos to go beyond the edges of the slides wherever possible. Unfortunately, some of my photos are vertically oriented, so some slides, alas, have white space showing. I'll have to pay attention to camera orientation when taking photos for future presentations.
After removing words and enlarging images, I then looked at the overall flow of the presentation and found several slides that interrupted my narration. I reorganized sections so that the presentation now flows much better.
Some people might say 40 images are too many, and admittedly when presenting I tend to skip over about 4-5 slides. But the many images help the children see the setting and the process in detail, so for now, I'll stick to my 40 slides.
So, in my author visit bag I have my dried wakame. I have my props. I have my spruced up PowerPoint. The one thing I'm missing is a wireless clicker.
And now, in thanks for reading this far, I'll share with you some wakame recipes from Koshigoe, a fishing port neighborhood of Kamakura. These recipes were shared by members of the Koshigoe community.
So aren't you just wishing it were February, with fresh wakame in season?
This week I'll be visiting an international school in Tokyo to talk about poetry to grade 3 students and wakame seaweed and The Wakame Gatherers to grade 4 students as part of their healthy eating unit. With poetry I usually let the words talk, let the words take center stage, so I rarely include images in poetry presentations.
For my wakame presentations, however, I use lots of photos from my years of observing wakame cultivation and wakame gathering on the beaches in Kamakura. I take the audience on a virtual journey to Kamakura and show them the steps of the wakame cultivation process and independent wakame gathering.
I have all the images. I've presented on wakame many times. But my PowerPoint needed some sprucing up.
Previously the wakame presentation was full of slides consisting of photos accompanied by some text. In my presentation revision, I cut the words from all except three of the forty slides. The text was completely superfluous.
I also enlarged all of the photos to go beyond the edges of the slides wherever possible. Unfortunately, some of my photos are vertically oriented, so some slides, alas, have white space showing. I'll have to pay attention to camera orientation when taking photos for future presentations.
After removing words and enlarging images, I then looked at the overall flow of the presentation and found several slides that interrupted my narration. I reorganized sections so that the presentation now flows much better.
Some people might say 40 images are too many, and admittedly when presenting I tend to skip over about 4-5 slides. But the many images help the children see the setting and the process in detail, so for now, I'll stick to my 40 slides.
So, in my author visit bag I have my dried wakame. I have my props. I have my spruced up PowerPoint. The one thing I'm missing is a wireless clicker.
And now, in thanks for reading this far, I'll share with you some wakame recipes from Koshigoe, a fishing port neighborhood of Kamakura. These recipes were shared by members of the Koshigoe community.
So aren't you just wishing it were February, with fresh wakame in season?
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