As I have been preparing for an upcoming conference in which I will be presenting virtual classrooms al la Study Wiz. I have a question for those of you in the audience. I am using an Imovie, its really cool with some special effects to look like a Harry Potter Booklet, ( I will be wearing a Wizard hat after all the presentation is titles, "Study Wizardry!" The movie features me being overloaded with binders, and spiral notebooks, lost assignments and the like leading up to my pleasure at the ease of managing work using a virtual classroom. Most of the movie is my kids and their various interactions with the program, using an elocker to store work, both finished and unfinished, retrieving assignments and due dates, having discussions through the discussion board, group writing, responding to podcasts, creating their own, and my favorite, a link to our online poetry slam. The presentation involves my colleague who will be doing a power point for the first half and then I will complete the next half hour. The movie is about 15 minutes so I will spend the last 15 minutes discussing the notion of virtual classrooms and ways in which teachers can get started. I plan on sharing our literacy workshop as a great starting point. I believe the blog and discussion board works for any subject as as being "literate" in any content area is key to success in a subject...
So back to my question. What do you like to see when viewing a presentation? Am I being too hokey with the Wizard thing? I am having a lot of fun with it but ...what do you think? -- Tena _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
