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No More Posters and PowerPoint: Student Presentation Alternatives

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Student Presentation Alternatives

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Why do we assign posters?

Is it for us or for them?

Why do we assign slide shows?

Is it for us or for them?

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Think about assigning work higher up on the scale. Posters and slide shows easily fall into Knowledge & Comprehension- nothing wrong with that sometimes, but maybe not all the time. This isn't to say all posters fall in the bottom, nor to say all the tools I'll show fall in the top, just to think about where what you're asking students to do falls on the Taxonomy.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to berate anyone for assigning posters and slide shows! They certainly do have their place, but you're here to learn some alternatives right?

their future?

Assignments should be relevant to their future college and career experiences. At 1871, there are never going to be posters hung on the walls, or a fair with tri-fold displays. Nor do the start-ups here pitch their projects to investors with a simple slide show of images and words.

audience

Who is their audience?
Who can they share this with?
Parents, community, others? - wider reach than a poster we hang on the wall or PPT saved to our computer.

What about hanging stuff on the wall to show student work? Still ok to print & hang stuff, but also need to share outside the building!

Photo by juliocrockett

student choice

The power of student choice. Ask them how they want to show their learning.
But...

empower their creativity

After years of doing things the teacher's way, kids may not naturally be inclined to present their learning in new ways. But when they're creating multimedia masterpieces at home, we're killing their creativity if we don't also let them do it here.

Develop a culture of choice and trying new tools from the start of the school year, and kids won't fall in the habit of taking the easy way out.

Let them start developing a digital portfolio! This is the way of the future!

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Poster Alternatives

virtual & interactive posters
comic strips
infographics

If you must do a poster...

Virtual & interactive posters: Skitch, Glogster, Pic Collage & other image collage apps, Thinglink, geo-maps, QR code posters

Comic Strips: PowToon, Comic Life, Draw and Tell (see https://www.graphite.org/top-picks/classroom-friendly-websites-and-apps-for... for more)

Infographics: Piktochart, Infogr.am

See https://www.graphite.org/top-picks/apps-and-websites-for-making-posters for a good list and reviews.

Photo by Andrei Z

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Better Slide Shows

Haiku Deck
Pear Deck
Powtoon Slides
Slides Carnival
Prezi

If you must do a slide show...

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Storytelling

screencasting apps
movie making apps
puppet show apps
book creation apps

Screencasting: EDUCreations, Explain Everything, ShowMe, VoiceThread, Adobe Voice, Telestory

Movies: iMovie, iStopMotion, Animoto, YouTube Capture, Popcorn Maker

Puppets: Puppet Pals, Shadow Puppet, ToonTastic, Sock Puppets

Books/eBooks: Book Creator, iBooks Author, Little Story Maker, many others

Photo by Kathy Cassidy

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Outside the Box

programming
games & simulations
augmented reality
app-smashing

advanced option

Programming: Scratch or Scratch Jr., Hopscotch, Tynker, Blockly, Code.org

Games or simulations: Scratch, Minecraft, DIY

Augmented Reality: Aurasma, Daqri 4D Studio, Klikaklu

See http://edtechteacher.org/app-smashing-from-greg/ for more about app-smashing.

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