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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Presentation-good points and bad
My first PowerPoint presentation project for my Introduction class was good in theory. They were to research an assigned part of the HIPPA law and complete a PowerPoint presentation to the class what they learned. They used their time wisely and I thought all was going well with the groups until they got up to present. Only 2 groups actually presented what they had learned about the law. The other 4 groups had copied and pasted and basically read their presentations straight from the slide show. They really did not have any grasp of what they were reading and they even mispronounced some of the words in their own presentations. I had given them a rubric on what was expected and had gone over in class before they began their research that plagarism was not allowed, but when I mentioned this to the groups after their presentations, they really did not consider copying and pasting for a presentation plagarism because they put their websites on the end slides. The next PowerPoint presentation worked better, because we discussed in detail what I expected from each group-no copying and pasting and they needed to be able to answer basic questions on the material without notecards or the slides.
Hello! I had this same experience with a presentation that I recently required students to do. I did remember the 6 by 6 rule that we learned in NTI this summer and I had my students follow that rule, but I really didn't talk to them about presenting. So, like what you saw, I had kids get up and read their powerpoints word for word, with no attention getter, they lacked good voice tone, and many had poor contact with the audience. I realized that I had failed to teach them how to present. I gave them a few pointers along the way to improve presentations (so they didn't put us all to sleep). But, I made a vow to myself, before our next presentation, I will teach them how to present and will incorporate that in to their final grade. Maybe you could do something like this? Require them to have a set induction, etc. It is important for these kids to be able to give good presentations. I think this is a life skill that they will use forever. Why I just expected them to know it...I'm not sure!
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