Star´s work of this week "TELLING STORIES: Free Resources and Visual Presentations"

The topic that we chose for our oral presentation was "The Food Chain...with Dinosaurs" so we made a funny presentation with a slideshow for supporting it and try to explain it as good as possible.

With this practice we have realized the importance of make a good work using only free resources for developing them and using material with licence under a CC Licence.

Our slideshow for the presentation and exposition of our topic was made of thirteen slides and a complement ( the glasses ) for a better understanding.

As I imagine that not all of you could attend our great explanation, here's a video that shows our work  so you would have the chance to learn with us about the food chain in a fun way!

Hope you enjoy it !

Creative Commons and Visual Presentations

Our work related to the practice "Telling stories: Free resources and Visual Presentations" is now available in our Slideshare account. There, you can know more about Creative Commons, and how to make a good presentation.

We hope you like it!

Creative commons and tips for a good presentation from GiveMe7 Blog

My Turn as Facilitator: It's okay to be THE BOSS

My experience as the facilitator of the group has been so good. Even I like the experience of have some power, but I haven't been too bossy (I think).
My conclusions, once I've finished my role of the week, are that the most essentials pillars to create a solid group of work is (1) to have a good communication among all the components of the group, (2) to have clear what's the common objective and (3) to know how to deal with problems and conflicts that appears during work time.

This week we have had many tasks to do, so I considered that the best way to organize the work was dividing the group in order to each one had to be in charge of carry out one part.

So, this is how we did it:

- Irene and Mª José were in charge of make the slides explaining the tips for a good presentation.
- Natalia and me did the explanation of how to use Creative Commons.
- Mariano, Javier and Ana made the slideshow of the topic we chose -the Food Chain, but we tried to be original, thus we added some Dinosaurs to the mix-, and also prepared the oral presentation about it.

By this way, everybody knew what had to do, a specific task.
Because of our experience last weeks, we have tried to organize in a better way the time we had to carry out the activity, making the most of the time in class and distributing the work individually.



Facilitator: Alicia del Carmen Lova Ortiz

Curator-Farmer in the practice "TELLING STORIES"

The resources that we have used for this practice called "Telling Stories" are as follows. Firstly they have been organized in APA style. Secondly, they are located in our Pearltree. Please have a look at them!!

 CC, CREATIVE COMMONS, (n.d.).(webpage). Retrieved February 20,2014, from https://creativecommons.org/

 CHAPGAR. J.(n.d.).”Bigger food chains”, “Sheppard Software:we make learning fun.“(webpage).Retrived February,18,2014, from https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain2.htm

 DUARTE, N, (2002, February). “We´re creating a new TED.com”. (webpage). Retrieved February 19,2014, from http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html

 DUARTE, N. (2012, October, 22). “Do your slides pass the glance test?”, Harward Business. Retrived February 20, 2014 from http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/10/do-your-slides-pass-the-glance-test/

 DUARTE, N. (2012, October, 31). “Structure your presentation like a story”. (Post). Retrieved February 18,2014, from http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/10/structure-your-presentation-li/

 REYNOLDS,G. (n.d.). “Organization and preparation tips”.(webpage). Retrieved February 18,2014, from http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/prepare/

 REYNOLDS,G. (n.d.) “Top Ten Slide Tips”,(webpage). Retrieved February 19,2014, from http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/
 


by Natalia Martinez Alcazar. Curator-farmer.

Journalist's Work This Week "TELLING STORIES: Free Resources and Visual Presentations"

This week we have been working in our practice called “Telling Stories: Free Resources and Visual Presentations”. This activity is composed of two different parts although we have divided into three ones; we have made three groups to distribute our work.

The first group had to create a topic to any content on Primary School and the start had to prepare an oral presentation about it with a slide show for supporting and she had to present it for us, our classmates and to our teacher on Monday morning. Those who were responsible for making this activity were Javier Marín, Mariano Castillo and Ana de Lara (the start of this week). They searched for information on the Internet and they also looked up information in some books to create this part; and all the drawings have been made by Mariano Castillo.

The second and third group had to upload a show presentation to slide share with 30 slides on it. In this presentation you can see 10 slides which explain what the Creative Commons Licences are and another 20 slides which show the 20 basic tips for developing a good presentation. The second group was composed of Alicia Lova and Natalia Martínez; and the third by María José Herrero and Irene Martínez. We have searched for information on the Internet (websites, blogs, …) about our different parts and also we have chosen some different photos which all of them have Creative Commons Licences.

Before starting with our practice, Javier Marín offered himself to take the responsibility to draw the storyboard with our opinions and with our contribution of our different ideas.

When the parts were done, every pair had to explain to the star and to other components of the group what had worked and learned so that everyone knew correctly the development and purpose of the practice.

We believe that this practice is a useful dynamic activity because the work have been distributed more easily and each one of us work specific contents instead of a range of concepts and also, because the rest of the contents have been explained to you by your peers, and vice versa which give you an improvement in your skills and capabilities.

Here you can see our star of this week, Ana de Lara, explaining our topic "The Food Chain...with Dinosaurs" to our classmates and our teacher.

 

COMMENTS ABOUT OTHERS CLASSMATES’ BLOGS:
 I have been watching our classmates’ blogs and give me 7 have decided that the best groups which have been working hard this week have been:

·       The Teachleaders. As we saw on Monday morning, their presentation was clear, with a lot of colour and so expressive. Any kind of children could understand the presentation easily. Congratulations!!
 

http://theteachleaderssoyer.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/star-i.html#comment-form

 

·        Hide and Seek. All their images were drawn by hand and slides did not contain too much information so people focused on listening to them instead of reading information, and also, as I said before with the other group, their presentation was easy to understand.

http://hideandandseek.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/hello-i-ammaria-jose-gomez-and-this.html#comment-form

OTHER BLOGS

I find a blog which is so interesting and I would like to recommend you. It is about teaching ideas using ICT. the main activity that you can see on this blog is called "Podcasting", a wonderful way of allowing children to share their work and experiences with people over the Internet. You can see "What is a podcast?", "How do you make a podcast?", "Examples of a podcast"; and many others wonderful things. Let's have a look!

 

 

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/podcasting.htm

JOURNALIST:  Irene Martínez Bermúdez

Two Translators Telling (old?) Stories

This week the practice was to learn how to do a nice and useful presentation using free resources, so we have chosen 5 concepts that, if used sequentially, can help us to create and develop an outstanding presentation, flowing like if were telling a story.

• Storyboard: a series of illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of serving as a guide to developing a story, previewing an animation or following the structure of a film.  Storyboards are an essential tool for making and developing a good presentation, as they allows a visual and mental guideline to follow.

• (Free) Resources: materials (documents, pictures, drawings, music…) that we can use for our work and can be copied, edited, altered, redistributed...always with permission of the owner. Usually those materials should not be used with commercial purposes. Within this concept we can find Creative Commons and many tools and websites (Flickr, Jamendo..) for using resources rationally and legally.

• Creative Commons licenses: is public copyright licenses for the free distribution of a creator´s work. Authors give the right to share or use upon their artistic production. There are four kinds of licenses for protection and flexibility of owners: Attribution (BY), Share-alike (SA), Non-commercial (NC) and Non-derivative (ND). GiveMe7´s blog is under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) since it´s beggining.

• Tips (for developing a presentation): advices that could be followed for designing, preparing and delivering an effective exposition, e.g. know your audience as well as possible, choose fonts well or make good eye contact, in order to get people engaged by your subject matter and presentation skills.

• Slideshow:  a presentation of a series of still images on a projection screen (or on an electronic display device), typically in a planned sequences. Well-formulated slideshows allows speakers to match illustrated images to a verbal exposition. The development of a storyboard as a first step is key for a clear and organized slideshow, and as with any public speaking, some rehearsal is required to make an engaging and useful presentation.

Related to educational competencies, presentation skills become very useful as the teacher can effectively display information to groups, transforms himself/herself into a good communicator, learn how to use a variety of presentation methods to maintain group focus and how to change tactics midstream if something isn’t working. And all of this using resources with the permission of the legal owners, thereby instilling a fairer use of assets, especially digital ones.

Translators: Javier Marín Garcerán and Mariano Castillo Escudero.

Analyst´s Work This Week:

This week I am the analyst and I have to evaluate our work and answer the following questions related to this practice.

· What was the best part of the activity?

The best part of the activity was discovering what was a Creative Commons license and how to do a real presentation to teach our students in the future so they can understand the topic perfectly.

· What was the worse?

The worst is still the organization of the group because we are many members in the team, so we have to divide and coordinate us in the best possible way.

· What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?

The funniest part of the week has been when we had to meet in order to do the teamwork, I mean, the powerpoint and the presentation for monday because is when we had all our imagination and it was better to be all together to do this part of the practice.

· What was the worse?

The worst thing was to think our topic and to know really how to represent it on monday in order to explain in a correct way our subject to the class but we finally made our objetive.

· What have you learnt?

With this second practice, we have learned that it is very important to know how to do a good presentation to our students and that when we present a project using not our own resources, it should have at least Creative Commons license and we should respect others' work and attributions.

· What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?

All of us have worked hard in our part of the work in order to do a good job. We did it with with positivism and willing to transmit all our knowledge and ourpresentation to the whole class on monday.

· What do you need to improve –as a group- for the next weeks?

We, as a group, work all together but in some aspects we need to work separately and sometimes we have some troubles when we have to say what each one does, but we've solved all together greatfully. So, what I would improve would be our organization in this sense.

· How THIS content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?

This practice has been so interesting for us because in future courses, subjects and even in our real work in some years we'll have to use licensed contents in order to presentate our projects and also we'll need to know how to do a good presentation in order to use it in our classes with our pupils.

We've done our presentation as we did because we thought it was the best way to teach the students the concepts we had to teach according to our beliefs and our topic.

Mª José Herrero Atiénzar - Analyst

Telling Stories: The Food Chain....With Dinosaurs

In our Slideshare account  you can have a look at our practice: "Telling Stories: Free Resources and Visual Presentations", that our Star explained this morning in classroom (despite some technical problems).We are so proud of our work, so we hope you enjoy it!

The Food Chain...with Dinosaurs! from GiveMe7 Blog

Food Chain Storyboard

Take a look at the first draft of our storyboard for GiveMe7 monday presentation about the Food Chain in our Slideshare account:

Food Chain Storyboard for #SOyER1314 from GiveMe7 Blog

Presentation: Steve Job´s IPHONE Keynote (2007)

This week is all about how to make great presentations, so now it´s a good moment to remember Steve Job´s  iPhone Keynote in 2007, and take some notes for our next Monday work. Truly inspiring (for "english" subtitles, watch the video in Youtube´s website).