Key points of this article state the importance of 21st century skills and how teachers can help students implement into oral presentations. It stresses that content is the most important aspect of presentations but shouldn’t fill up your slide. I liked the idea of using a twenty five word maximum on each slide. This will force students to use phrases to highlight information and prepare for their presentation rather than reading a paragraph to the class.
This article also discussed the pros and cons of adding images, animations, sound effects, color etc…to your oral presentation. Yes all of this can benefit your overall presentation but by doing too much could end up hurting your overall grade.
I liked the idea of students assessing their classmates during class presentations. It prevents students from zoning out and it keeps them focused on the presenter. I also liked that in this case the teacher actually used the student rubrics as a part of the students final grade. Instead of having the rubrics be meaningless and passed out to keep the students “busy”. I thought the question and answer session was great. It keeps the students engaged and if the students are engaged then they are learning!
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It is an example of student centered teaching. By assigning oral presentations the students are teaching their classmates information on assigned topics. As well as assessing their classmates by filling out rubrics handed out by the teacher. The students are not just giving their classmates a grade but are actually giving feedback and advice in complete sentences. This article challenges students to create presentations and by doing so they are developing important 21st century skills along the way—collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity!
Your idea of keeping the audience engaged is very important. If you are familiar with the learning pyramid, it has explaining and lecturing on opposite ends of the spectrum...see me about further saring this if you would like.
The key points of this article are... The article talks about the importance of using oral presentations to develop communication skills. It provides ways for students to develop well-organized and effective presentations. Putting a word limit on slides is a great way to prevent students from reading directly off the slides and force them to practice speaking freely about a topic. Other ideas such as limiting animations and creating consistency among slides are great ways for students to create polished and professional presentations.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because... The article discusses using presentations to build oral skills, but it can also help them learn through inquiry. Creating presentations requires students to learn the information, organize it in a logical order and then relay that information to their classmates. Frank LaBlanca also discusses how he likes his students to critique each other, which forces them to think critically about the information and then reflect on the presentations. Giving students such responsibility in their learning can spark interest in them and motivate them to inquire about information on their own.
Your statement about "requires students to learn the information, organize it in a logical order and then relay that information," is the exact reason we begin with a simple presentation as the prezi about ourself!
There are many important points that this article touches upon. One being the most essential is the general concept of students having an opportunity to do in-class oral presentations. The author of this article claims that it is important for them to master this skill of presenting in front of an audience in order to be able to convey a message, express, and inform others successfully.
LaBanca also talks about many strategies that should be used in presentations, such as word count, adequate number of pictures, animations or simply keeping consistency throughout the presentation. However, one that stands out most to me is color and font selection. From previous experiences with PowerPoint presentations, especially in younger population, it is often impossible to read what the slide has to convey mainly because of the letters that are almost the same color as a background picture, or because the font is too small to read. It can be frustrating, make the presentation uninteresting and not beneficiary to the audience.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because of the different levels of challenge that the students are faced with. First, they need to make sure that their presentation follows the requirements mentioned above. They need to take many steps before their presentation is ready which requires extend research, organization and group work. But also, LaBanca gives his students a rubric to fill out for each presenting peer. This not only keeps the students in class occupied, it also makes students think critically and hone their thinking skills. Instead of simply stating what was good about any given presentation, they need to give reasoning as to why this particular aspect and not something else makes this presentation good or bad. That way the author makes his students think about the topic and explore it in hope that they would want to learn more and better their knowledge about it.
....master, that is what you want to aspire to become as a teacher, a master teacher! Then and only then can you teach anysubject and ensure learning is occuring. Additionally, remember to keep a consistant theme throughout the slides to minimize distractions. As we explore each others Prezi's, we will develop a rubric ourselves too.
The key point of “The 21st-Century Oral Presentation Tool Bag” is that a student’s ability to communicate information orally to an audience is a critical skill that they must develop in order to succeed in the 21st-century. Science teachers can aid in developing such a skill by having students create presentations that allow them to display their knowledge in a specific subject area. To maximize a student’s presentation’s effectiveness, guidelines such as limitations on: word count, imagery and animation use, and color and font settings, should be implemented. Focus on key concepts and avoiding wordiness will allow for a presentation with minimal distractions and will maximize the degree to which a student is able to express their understanding of the subject matter in a way that is most relatable and comprehensible to them. However, students’ presentations are not just for the student presenting, they are equally essential to their peers as well. A good way to ensure that students stay engaged while their peers present is to have them provide feedback by filling out a grading rubric based on the presentation and additionally provide commentary such as: what were the strongest points and what can be improved upon. Allowing students to ask the presenter questions at the end of their segment is another good way to have a presenter demonstrate their knowledge as well as teach the class. As a teacher, to effectively grade a student’s presentation, it is recommended that all parties involved get to evaluate the presentation; that is, the teacher, students and the presenter all receive a rubric on which to judge various parts of the presentation. This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because when students present to their class and have a chance to “play teacher”, it is really the presenting student who is most thoroughly learning. When a student creates a presentation, they are rephrasing and decontextualizing information in a way that makes the material most understandable to them- and more likely than not, most understandable to their peers as well. In order for a student to make a presentation and successfully execute it in front of a class shows that the student truly comprehends what they have learned and there is a greater chance that said student will retain the information they just learned even after they are tested on it. To be able to memorize facts and information is a good skill to have, however this is not the most important skill that students need to master. What students need is an understanding of how to get and make sense of all this data surrounding them in order to become active, progressive and innovative members of society. To effectively communicate orally is a skill that transcends the science classroom- this is a skill that students will carry with them throughout their lives.
The key points of this article are: -To make oral presentations an important part of the classroom. They help students to practice speaking in front of groups, as well as add to a students understanding and ability to explain information they have learned. -There are many main tips teachers can give to students on presenting oral presentations. Some of which include: using a small amount of words, using pictures, using the appropriate amount of graphs and data, making sure you use the proper citations, and make sure to use external links. -In order to keep the classmates and the student presenter involved in the presentation have both the class and the student themselves’ evaluate the presentation. Present them with a rubric and specific questions to answer about the presentation.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it provides me with a technique that I can use in the classroom to help kids learn through inquiry. Oral presentations allow students to better understand subject matter through explaining the subject matter to others. It also teaches them organization, time management, public speaking, and project skills. All of these skills are beneficial for students in school and in their future careers.
The key points to this article are that presenting information orally can enhance the students’ understanding of the topic. These presentations are meant to engage students the other students in the class. The article shows how teachers can guide their students to creating an effective oral presentation. The article states that the main priority is the content of the subject and not the visual form of the slides. Some of the tips to creating a good presentation include keeping the words on a slide to a minimum, using colors and fonts that are easily seen in the classroom and making the slides appealing without becoming too distracting. This article better helps me understand teaching and learning through inquiry by realizing that in order to create an oral presentation and explain it to the class, students must know their topic. It will not be enough to just stand at the front of the room and state scientific facts. They must know the concept, how it works and why. They must think in to come up with ways of explaining the concept and possibly making it relatable to their peers. This process of taking the information, learning it, understanding it and presenting it can help make concepts more meaningful to the students. Students listening to the presentation may also get more out of the presentation because sometimes it is good to have the theory explained by a different perspective of the teacher. By having the students fill out comments and feedback, not only will they pay closer attention to the presentation but they will also think about the improvements they suggested to their peers and how they can incorporate those suggestions into their own presentations.
One of the key points of this article is to demonstrate to the reader the many benefits of having students do oral presentations in the classroom. Through these presentations students develop vital skills, such as public speaking, which they will need for the rest of their life, especially in the workplace. He believes that rhetoric and communication are skills which students should develop at school and having students complete oral presentations can accomplish this goal. Another main point from the article is to have students actively engage in oral presentations. LaBanca describes an effective way of using oral presentations in a classroom, inlcuding the use of student-student rubrics, in which the students critique the presenter and give the presenter three specific comments. This forces students to pay attention to the presenter, rather than to doze off since the information is just coming from one of their peers, not their teacher. He also gives students guidelines on how to make a presentation, which can help put them in the right direction for their presentation.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gives me a good model to follow in which students are encouraged to inquire. The presenter has thoroughly researched her topic, exploring the questions she had about this topic and is able to relay that information back to her classmates in her presentation. After every oral presentation there is a question and answer session in which students are required to ask at least one question for two presentations that are done throughout the year. This requirement encourages students to think critically about the topic which was presented. Furthermore, with the student-student rubrics, students are forced to reflect on the presentation, especially when writing their three comments on the presenter.
The key points of this article are to help teachers become more aware of how to organize an oral presentation assessment for students inside a science classroom. Another key point of this article is LaBlanca gives many excellent explanations of how to help students better understand how to give an excellent presentation while also giving great insight on how students can express themselves without being to overwhelming for their audiences.
This article helps me better understand teaching and learning though inquiry because the article gives a great alternative way for student based learning in a classroom setting, where students become the teachers. It is also a great way for students to express themselves inside the classroom and put their own unique spin on a topic by giving a presentation. The presentation format also allows for student growth in a specific area of a topic and allows them to get an understanding of how to communicate properly with others. This is also a great tool for teachers because it keeps students accountable for their work i.e. "we didn't learn that" excuse.
The key points in this article are to help teachers help their students develop necessary skills such as ones used through oral presentations. Such key points include the whole visual component to students presentations, students should not be getting to caught up in making all fancy animations throughout powerpoints and having sounds but more on content and general flow of the presentations, yes those things help keep the powerpoint lively but are not necessarily the major important role of the powerpoint. Other key points that I found note worthy is the one pointed out with the resizing of images with using the shift key. I didnt know that it could be done through a technique such as that and have always had problems with resizing my images on presentations. Other key points include having a 25 word limit to each slide which forces students to have key words on their powerpoints to jog their memory in what they are supposed to be saying to the class on that particular line. which forces students in my opinion to actually know what they are saying to the class and are not just regurgitating something they found off of wikipedia. More key points are requirements on having data through out the powerpoint which shows trends, comparisons, etc.
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I found this article to be very interesting. I thought the rubrics were structured perfectly, students are required to actively participate in all of the presentations being done and receive a grade in doing so. The students self assessment makes them really think about the knowledge they have obtained and have to provide evidence to receiving the grade they think is worthy from their particular presentation. Other factors such as maintaining eye contact with the audience I found to be very important when it comes to deciding a grade for students for it keeps them actively engaged with their presentation and maintaining the attention of the audience as well. It forces students to not just read from their slides but to actually maintain knowledge on their material and then transfer their understanding of it to the audience. This all allows students to express themselves in a way they feel comfortable and allows them to actually obtain knowledge and not just memorization. The audience students requirements on having to ask questions and evaluate their peers allows for them to not just sit there like sponges trying to absorb information (or not if they aren't paying attention) allows for them to further seek knowledge and to engage in the learning process!
The key points of this article are…….. The article is meant to show the importance of oral presentations for students. LaBanca provides suggestions and tools to help teachers implement successful oral presentations in the classroom. In a Powerpoint type presentation, he says that there should not be so much on a slide that it will become distracting. This includes the amount of words, transitions and sound effects, animations, etc. The consistency and color choices should also be very easy to read for the presenter and the rest of the class. In order to make sure students are paying attention, he has each student grade the presenter, and require that they ask a few questions. Students will also assess their own presentations, and all of these factors will go into the final grade.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because….. The students must pay close attention in all aspects of the project. They need to research their topic and learn enough about it to be prepared to present and answer any students questions successfully. The other students must also inquire on the topic with intelligent questions. The presenter must also make sure all of the requirements and guidelines, as well as LaBanca's suggestions in order to make a great presentation overall. Students develop oral presentation skills, which is very important, not only for teaching, but for any profession.
The key points of the article are the importance of oral presentations in classrooms. Oral presentations help students become comfortable talking in front of others. Another key point of the article is the importance of how a presentation is constructed. I agree with the fact that students get too caught up with making their presentation look good and adding as much as they can, even when it is too much. The challenge of only putting 25 words per slide is something helpful for anyone, not only students. Having fewer words shows the audience that you actually know what you are talking about.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the way LaBanca set up this project included the students from beginning to end. Each student had to create an oral presentation, got the chance to teach their classmates about their topic, observe their classmates give oral presentations and ask questions. I also thought this article was helpful because oral presentations can be used in any class and not only science classes.
There are several key points in LaBanca’s article. One of the major points involves the benefits of oral presentations. Oral presentations allow students to develop public speaking skills that they will need in the future. Not only do oral presentations prepare students for future endeavors, they also challenge them in present. In any presentation students give, they have to communicate information to others. This means being able to transmit the information in a clear and concise manner. Others have to understand what the student is trying to express and the student has a limited amount of time to be effective in this respect. In addition, several factors go into making an effective presentation and students have to be aware of how to best employ the tools at their disposal to this end. Lastly, even if a presentation is well done and effectively, LaBanca points out that not everyone will pay attention and garner the important information. To combat this issue, he suggests making others engage through question and answer and evaluation requirements. Others have to now focus because they are expected to ask the presenter questions and provide insights into different aspects of the presentation, like what they learned from it or how it could be improved.
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This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows how to promote inquiry in the classroom. With oral presentations students must learn through inquiry because they have to explore the different topics they are to prepare presentations for. Teachers can then see how well students understand their topics because if students have not become well enough acquainted with them or have little comprehension of them, it will show when they present. Furthermore, inquiry extends beyond the presentations because other students are to interact with the presenter and inquire about his presentation in order to provide relevant feedback.
The key points of this article are the concepts of a proper presentation given by students. It is explained how having students five presentations to argue a point, describe a process, or justify data helps them to understand the topic more clearly. this article also goes through the dos and donts of oral presentations and how to keep the attention of the other students in the audience. I like the idea of having students give oral presentations because it helps them to learn the topic a bit more than what can be done in the classroom.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it helps the students understand the concept and hopefully engage them in the lesson. While the students are preparing the for the presentation, they will most likely inquire as to why something is the way it is and look it up. However, some students might just so the minimum research but they will still be pursuing the topic more then they would without the presentation and research.
The key points of this article are the following: oral skills are often necessary in the workplace and engaging in oral presentations can help students improve these skills; these skills require that students,learn, synthesize and recognize information; oral presentations help students improve that public speaking skills; and developing oral communication skills can make science more meaningful for students.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the author effectively describes how teachers can help students create better oral presentations through the use of technology, the use of a student-student oral presentation rubric and the use of a oral presentation self-assessment rubric.
The major point to this article is the topic of oral presentations. Oral presentations can help the students better learn about the topic at hand. It helps lessen any anxiety students may have and also, oral presentations can help better their public speaking skills. Oral presentations in a timed manner can help the students get to the key points faster and more effectively, rather than just adding fluff to make it interesting.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it helps the students grasp the concept at hand. It also allows the audience to interact with the presenter to better understand the topic being discussed. It also allows the teacher to see how well the students comprehend the topic they are discussing.
The key points of this article are oral communication, presentation, and explanation of concepts and ideas. LaBanca explains how students often get caught up in making the presentation, rather than focusing on the actual presentation itself. Some students get too concerned with how their presentation looks that they don't focus enough on the material they are supposed to be explaining. On the other hand, some students make their presentations too wordy and therefore are reading during their presentation, rather than communication and explaining by memory. Labanca explains several key factors of a presentation and what should be reviewed with the students at to what they should or shouldn't do. He talks about using a large font size, dark colors on a light background or vise versa, adding photos or links, and using citations.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because I never put much thought into the fact that a presentation can be too wordy. I found it interesting that Labanca gave his students a word limit because I know that in the past I have focused on trying to get all of the information on the presentation instead of just putting key points and the explaining further in my own words from memory. In an oral presentation, you don't need to show all the information to prove that you know the content. Instead, you can show your understanding of the material through speaking. Presentations help students throughly learn a topic, speak publicly, and explain their understanding of a topic.
The key points of this article are…….. that students must understand how to properly make an oral presentation. by putting a limit on the words on each slide, students are forced to critically think on the spot and talk from their knowledge. We also learned how to properly make a presentation so that it captures and engages the audience without being too boring or annoYing with all the sounds and animations. We also learned how important visuals are for a presentation to keep the audience into it.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because….. We learned how important these presentations can be to students. It helps them get comfortable speaking in front of a group without reading off a screen with their back turned. A lot of students are more comfortable just reading off a slide without making proper eye contact with the audience to keep the, entertained.
The key points of this article are to show students how to create an oral presentation that communicates key ideas effectively and help students understand the important factors that they will be graded on during the presentation. Some things you should remember about an oral presentation are to keep the word limit at a maximum of 25 words in order to keep each slide less cluttered, use images, animations, and fonts to keep the listener's attention, and make sure to cite any information you used from an outside source on the slides.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it showed a rubric that could help students to grade their own presentations. A student could create their presentation, then look at it through their teacher's eyes. They could grade themselves according to the rubric, and anything they got lower than a 4 on, the student could go back and fix. This helps the student to achieve a higher score on a presentation. Also, the article shows that feedback is very important. After a student gives a presentation, the teacher might ask the rest of the class to express any ideas about what they liked or didn't like. This helps the student to perform well on any future presentations. Also, the audience should be asking questions to the presenter after the the presentation in order to inquire about more details of the topic. This helps everyone comprehend the topic more and shows that the listeners were engaged.
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ReplyDeleteKey points of this article state the importance of 21st century skills and how teachers can help students implement into oral presentations. It stresses that content is the most important aspect of presentations but shouldn’t fill up your slide. I liked the idea of using a twenty five word maximum on each slide. This will force students to use phrases to highlight information and prepare for their presentation rather than reading a paragraph to the class.
This article also discussed the pros and cons of adding images, animations, sound effects, color etc…to your oral presentation. Yes all of this can benefit your overall presentation but by doing too much could end up hurting your overall grade.
I liked the idea of students assessing their classmates during class presentations. It prevents students from zoning out and it keeps them focused on the presenter. I also liked that in this case the teacher actually used the student rubrics as a part of the students final grade. Instead of having the rubrics be meaningless and passed out to keep the students “busy”. I thought the question and answer session was great. It keeps the students engaged and if the students are engaged then they are learning!
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because…..
It is an example of student centered teaching. By assigning oral presentations the students are teaching their classmates information on assigned topics. As well as assessing their classmates by filling out rubrics handed out by the teacher. The students are not just giving their classmates a grade but are actually giving feedback and advice in complete sentences. This article challenges students to create presentations and by doing so they are developing important 21st century skills along the way—collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity!
Your idea of keeping the audience engaged is very important. If you are familiar with the learning pyramid, it has explaining and lecturing on opposite ends of the spectrum...see me about further saring this if you would like.
DeleteThe key points of this article are...
ReplyDeleteThe article talks about the importance of using oral presentations to develop communication skills. It provides ways for students to develop well-organized and effective presentations. Putting a word limit on slides is a great way to prevent students from reading directly off the slides and force them to practice speaking freely about a topic. Other ideas such as limiting animations and creating consistency among slides are great ways for students to create polished and professional presentations.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because...
The article discusses using presentations to build oral skills, but it can also help them learn through inquiry. Creating presentations requires students to learn the information, organize it in a logical order and then relay that information to their classmates. Frank LaBlanca also discusses how he likes his students to critique each other, which forces them to think critically about the information and then reflect on the presentations. Giving students such responsibility in their learning can spark interest in them and motivate them to inquire about information on their own.
Your statement about "requires students to learn the information, organize it in a logical order and then relay that information," is the exact reason we begin with a simple presentation as the prezi about ourself!
DeleteThere are many important points that this article touches upon. One being the most essential is the general concept of students having an opportunity to do in-class oral presentations. The author of this article claims that it is important for them to master this skill of presenting in front of an audience in order to be able to convey a message, express, and inform others successfully.
ReplyDeleteLaBanca also talks about many strategies that should be used in presentations, such as word count, adequate number of pictures, animations or simply keeping consistency throughout the presentation. However, one that stands out most to me is color and font selection. From previous experiences with PowerPoint presentations, especially in younger population, it is often impossible to read what the slide has to convey mainly because of the letters that are almost the same color as a background picture, or because the font is too small to read. It can be frustrating, make the presentation uninteresting and not beneficiary to the audience.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because of the different levels of challenge that the students are faced with. First, they need to make sure that their presentation follows the requirements mentioned above. They need to take many steps before their presentation is ready which requires extend research, organization and group work. But also, LaBanca gives his students a rubric to fill out for each presenting peer. This not only keeps the students in class occupied, it also makes students think critically and hone their thinking skills. Instead of simply stating what was good about any given presentation, they need to give reasoning as to why this particular aspect and not something else makes this presentation good or bad. That way the author makes his students think about the topic and explore it in hope that they would want to learn more and better their knowledge about it.
....master, that is what you want to aspire to become as a teacher, a master teacher! Then and only then can you teach anysubject and ensure learning is occuring. Additionally, remember to keep a consistant theme throughout the slides to minimize distractions. As we explore each others Prezi's, we will develop a rubric ourselves too.
DeleteThe key point of “The 21st-Century Oral Presentation Tool Bag” is that a student’s ability to communicate information orally to an audience is a critical skill that they must develop in order to succeed in the 21st-century. Science teachers can aid in developing such a skill by having students create presentations that allow them to display their knowledge in a specific subject area. To maximize a student’s presentation’s effectiveness, guidelines such as limitations on: word count, imagery and animation use, and color and font settings, should be implemented. Focus on key concepts and avoiding wordiness will allow for a presentation with minimal distractions and will maximize the degree to which a student is able to express their understanding of the subject matter in a way that is most relatable and comprehensible to them. However, students’ presentations are not just for the student presenting, they are equally essential to their peers as well. A good way to ensure that students stay engaged while their peers present is to have them provide feedback by filling out a grading rubric based on the presentation and additionally provide commentary such as: what were the strongest points and what can be improved upon. Allowing students to ask the presenter questions at the end of their segment is another good way to have a presenter demonstrate their knowledge as well as teach the class. As a teacher, to effectively grade a student’s presentation, it is recommended that all parties involved get to evaluate the presentation; that is, the teacher, students and the presenter all receive a rubric on which to judge various parts of the presentation.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because when students present to their class and have a chance to “play teacher”, it is really the presenting student who is most thoroughly learning. When a student creates a presentation, they are rephrasing and decontextualizing information in a way that makes the material most understandable to them- and more likely than not, most understandable to their peers as well. In order for a student to make a presentation and successfully execute it in front of a class shows that the student truly comprehends what they have learned and there is a greater chance that said student will retain the information they just learned even after they are tested on it. To be able to memorize facts and information is a good skill to have, however this is not the most important skill that students need to master. What students need is an understanding of how to get and make sense of all this data surrounding them in order to become active, progressive and innovative members of society. To effectively communicate orally is a skill that transcends the science classroom- this is a skill that students will carry with them throughout their lives.
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ReplyDelete-To make oral presentations an important part of the classroom. They help students to practice speaking in front of groups, as well as add to a students understanding and ability to explain information they have learned.
-There are many main tips teachers can give to students on presenting oral presentations. Some of which include: using a small amount of words, using pictures, using the appropriate amount of graphs and data, making sure you use the proper citations, and make sure to use external links.
-In order to keep the classmates and the student presenter involved in the presentation have both the class and the student themselves’ evaluate the presentation. Present them with a rubric and specific questions to answer about the presentation.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it provides me with a technique that I can use in the classroom to help kids learn through inquiry. Oral presentations allow students to better understand subject matter through explaining the subject matter to others. It also teaches them organization, time management, public speaking, and project skills. All of these skills are beneficial for students in school and in their future careers.
The key points to this article are that presenting information orally can enhance the students’ understanding of the topic. These presentations are meant to engage students the other students in the class. The article shows how teachers can guide their students to creating an effective oral presentation. The article states that the main priority is the content of the subject and not the visual form of the slides. Some of the tips to creating a good presentation include keeping the words on a slide to a minimum, using colors and fonts that are easily seen in the classroom and making the slides appealing without becoming too distracting.
ReplyDeleteThis article better helps me understand teaching and learning through inquiry by realizing that in order to create an oral presentation and explain it to the class, students must know their topic. It will not be enough to just stand at the front of the room and state scientific facts. They must know the concept, how it works and why. They must think in to come up with ways of explaining the concept and possibly making it relatable to their peers. This process of taking the information, learning it, understanding it and presenting it can help make concepts more meaningful to the students. Students listening to the presentation may also get more out of the presentation because sometimes it is good to have the theory explained by a different perspective of the teacher. By having the students fill out comments and feedback, not only will they pay closer attention to the presentation but they will also think about the improvements they suggested to their peers and how they can incorporate those suggestions into their own presentations.
One of the key points of this article is to demonstrate to the reader the many benefits of having students do oral presentations in the classroom. Through these presentations students develop vital skills, such as public speaking, which they will need for the rest of their life, especially in the workplace. He believes that rhetoric and communication are skills which students should develop at school and having students complete oral presentations can accomplish this goal. Another main point from the article is to have students actively engage in oral presentations. LaBanca describes an effective way of using oral presentations in a classroom, inlcuding the use of student-student rubrics, in which the students critique the presenter and give the presenter three specific comments. This forces students to pay attention to the presenter, rather than to doze off since the information is just coming from one of their peers, not their teacher. He also gives students guidelines on how to make a presentation, which can help put them in the right direction for their presentation.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gives me a good model to follow in which students are encouraged to inquire. The presenter has thoroughly researched her topic, exploring the questions she had about this topic and is able to relay that information back to her classmates in her presentation. After every oral presentation there is a question and answer session in which students are required to ask at least one question for two presentations that are done throughout the year. This requirement encourages students to think critically about the topic which was presented. Furthermore, with the student-student rubrics, students are forced to reflect on the presentation, especially when writing their three comments on the presenter.
The key points of this article are to help teachers become more aware of how to organize an oral presentation assessment for students inside a science classroom. Another key point of this article is LaBlanca gives many excellent explanations of how to help students better understand how to give an excellent presentation while also giving great insight on how students can express themselves without being to overwhelming for their audiences.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me better understand teaching and learning though inquiry because the article gives a great alternative way for student based learning in a classroom setting, where students become the teachers. It is also a great way for students to express themselves inside the classroom and put their own unique spin on a topic by giving a presentation. The presentation format also allows for student growth in a specific area of a topic and allows them to get an understanding of how to communicate properly with others. This is also a great tool for teachers because it keeps students accountable for their work i.e. "we didn't learn that" excuse.
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DeleteThe key points in this article are to help teachers help their students develop necessary skills such as ones used through oral presentations. Such key points include the whole visual component to students presentations, students should not be getting to caught up in making all fancy animations throughout powerpoints and having sounds but more on content and general flow of the presentations, yes those things help keep the powerpoint lively but are not necessarily the major important role of the powerpoint. Other key points that I found note worthy is the one pointed out with the resizing of images with using the shift key. I didnt know that it could be done through a technique such as that and have always had problems with resizing my images on presentations. Other key points include having a 25 word limit to each slide which forces students to have key words on their powerpoints to jog their memory in what they are supposed to be saying to the class on that particular line. which forces students in my opinion to actually know what they are saying to the class and are not just regurgitating something they found off of wikipedia. More key points are requirements on having data through out the powerpoint which shows trends, comparisons, etc.
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I found this article to be very interesting. I thought the rubrics were structured perfectly, students are required to actively participate in all of the presentations being done and receive a grade in doing so. The students self assessment makes them really think about the knowledge they have obtained and have to provide evidence to receiving the grade they think is worthy from their particular presentation. Other factors such as maintaining eye contact with the audience I found to be very important when it comes to deciding a grade for students for it keeps them actively engaged with their presentation and maintaining the attention of the audience as well. It forces students to not just read from their slides but to actually maintain knowledge on their material and then transfer their understanding of it to the audience. This all allows students to express themselves in a way they feel comfortable and allows them to actually obtain knowledge and not just memorization. The audience students requirements on having to ask questions and evaluate their peers allows for them to not just sit there like sponges trying to absorb information (or not if they aren't paying attention) allows for them to further seek knowledge and to engage in the learning process!
- John Napolitano
The key points of this article are……..
ReplyDeleteThe article is meant to show the importance of oral presentations for students. LaBanca provides suggestions and tools to help teachers implement successful oral presentations in the classroom. In a Powerpoint type presentation, he says that there should not be so much on a slide that it will become distracting. This includes the amount of words, transitions and sound effects, animations, etc. The consistency and color choices should also be very easy to read for the presenter and the rest of the class. In order to make sure students are paying attention, he has each student grade the presenter, and require that they ask a few questions. Students will also assess their own presentations, and all of these factors will go into the final grade.
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The students must pay close attention in all aspects of the project. They need to research their topic and learn enough about it to be prepared to present and answer any students questions successfully. The other students must also inquire on the topic with intelligent questions. The presenter must also make sure all of the requirements and guidelines, as well as LaBanca's suggestions in order to make a great presentation overall. Students develop oral presentation skills, which is very important, not only for teaching, but for any profession.
Dan Limone
The key points of the article are the importance of oral presentations in classrooms. Oral presentations help students become comfortable talking in front of others. Another key point of the article is the importance of how a presentation is constructed. I agree with the fact that students get too caught up with making their presentation look good and adding as much as they can, even when it is too much. The challenge of only putting 25 words per slide is something helpful for anyone, not only students. Having fewer words shows the audience that you actually know what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the way LaBanca set up this project included the students from beginning to end. Each student had to create an oral presentation, got the chance to teach their classmates about their topic, observe their classmates give oral presentations and ask questions. I also thought this article was helpful because oral presentations can be used in any class and not only science classes.
The key points of this article are…
ReplyDeleteThere are several key points in LaBanca’s article. One of the major points involves the benefits of oral presentations. Oral presentations allow students to develop public speaking skills that they will need in the future. Not only do oral presentations prepare students for future endeavors, they also challenge them in present. In any presentation students give, they have to communicate information to others. This means being able to transmit the information in a clear and concise manner. Others have to understand what the student is trying to express and the student has a limited amount of time to be effective in this respect. In addition, several factors go into making an effective presentation and students have to be aware of how to best employ the tools at their disposal to this end. Lastly, even if a presentation is well done and effectively, LaBanca points out that not everyone will pay attention and garner the important information. To combat this issue, he suggests making others engage through question and answer and evaluation requirements. Others have to now focus because they are expected to ask the presenter questions and provide insights into different aspects of the presentation, like what they learned from it or how it could be improved.
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This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows how to promote inquiry in the classroom. With oral presentations students must learn through inquiry because they have to explore the different topics they are to prepare presentations for. Teachers can then see how well students understand their topics because if students have not become well enough acquainted with them or have little comprehension of them, it will show when they present. Furthermore, inquiry extends beyond the presentations because other students are to interact with the presenter and inquire about his presentation in order to provide relevant feedback.
The key points of this article are the concepts of a proper presentation given by students. It is explained how having students five presentations to argue a point, describe a process, or justify data helps them to understand the topic more clearly. this article also goes through the dos and donts of oral presentations and how to keep the attention of the other students in the audience. I like the idea of having students give oral presentations because it helps them to learn the topic a bit more than what can be done in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it helps the students understand the concept and hopefully engage them in the lesson. While the students are preparing the for the presentation, they will most likely inquire as to why something is the way it is and look it up. However, some students might just so the minimum research but they will still be pursuing the topic more then they would without the presentation and research.
The key points of this article are the following: oral skills are often necessary in the workplace and engaging in oral presentations can help students improve these skills; these skills require that students,learn, synthesize and recognize information; oral presentations help students improve that public speaking skills; and developing oral communication skills can make science more meaningful for students.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the author effectively describes how teachers can help students create better oral presentations through the use of technology, the use of a student-student oral presentation rubric and the use of a oral presentation self-assessment rubric.
The major point to this article is the topic of oral presentations. Oral presentations can help the students better learn about the topic at hand. It helps lessen any anxiety students may have and also, oral presentations can help better their public speaking skills. Oral presentations in a timed manner can help the students get to the key points faster and more effectively, rather than just adding fluff to make it interesting.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it helps the students grasp the concept at hand. It also allows the audience to interact with the presenter to better understand the topic being discussed. It also allows the teacher to see how well the students comprehend the topic they are discussing.
The key points of this article are oral communication, presentation, and explanation of concepts and ideas. LaBanca explains how students often get caught up in making the presentation, rather than focusing on the actual presentation itself. Some students get too concerned with how their presentation looks that they don't focus enough on the material they are supposed to be explaining. On the other hand, some students make their presentations too wordy and therefore are reading during their presentation, rather than communication and explaining by memory. Labanca explains several key factors of a presentation and what should be reviewed with the students at to what they should or shouldn't do. He talks about using a large font size, dark colors on a light background or vise versa, adding photos or links, and using citations.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because I never put much thought into the fact that a presentation can be too wordy. I found it interesting that Labanca gave his students a word limit because I know that in the past I have focused on trying to get all of the information on the presentation instead of just putting key points and the explaining further in my own words from memory. In an oral presentation, you don't need to show all the information to prove that you know the content. Instead, you can show your understanding of the material through speaking. Presentations help students throughly learn a topic, speak publicly, and explain their understanding of a topic.
- Michele Treadwell
The key points of this article are……..
ReplyDeletethat students must understand how to properly make an oral presentation. by putting a limit on the words on each slide, students are forced to critically think on the spot and talk from their knowledge. We also learned how to properly make a presentation so that it captures and engages the audience without being too boring or annoYing with all the sounds and animations. We also learned how important visuals are for a presentation to keep the audience into it.
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We learned how important these presentations can be to students. It helps them get comfortable speaking in front of a group without reading off a screen with their back turned. A lot of students are more comfortable just reading off a slide without making proper eye contact with the audience to keep the, entertained.
The key points of this article are to show students how to create an oral presentation that communicates key ideas effectively and help students understand the important factors that they will be graded on during the presentation. Some things you should remember about an oral presentation are to keep the word limit at a maximum of 25 words in order to keep each slide less cluttered, use images, animations, and fonts to keep the listener's attention, and make sure to cite any information you used from an outside source on the slides.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it showed a rubric that could help students to grade their own presentations. A student could create their presentation, then look at it through their teacher's eyes. They could grade themselves according to the rubric, and anything they got lower than a 4 on, the student could go back and fix. This helps the student to achieve a higher score on a presentation. Also, the article shows that feedback is very important. After a student gives a presentation, the teacher might ask the rest of the class to express any ideas about what they liked or didn't like. This helps the student to perform well on any future presentations. Also, the audience should be asking questions to the presenter after the the presentation in order to inquire about more details of the topic. This helps everyone comprehend the topic more and shows that the listeners were engaged.