Semester II, Day 25 — Presentation Skills & Course Content

Students are reminded to send in their last GeoGebra assignments today for assessment.

We begin a new topic in class today.  Students will select a topic, conduct research and present their findings to the class.  This unit of study aims to help you develop your presentation skills and cover content for the course.  Your classmates will learn from your presentations.

We will discuss possible topics for your presentations in class and come up with a list.  We will take a look at some sample presentations to get ideas  of the possibilities.

Presentations for Computer Class Guidelines:

• You may work in pairs or alone – not three or more
• The presentation should stand on its own – you should not need to explain anything
• Research, research, research please.  We want to learn.
• Include facts, useful information, content
• Make it entertaining and fun — original
• Use sound, images, words …

Presentation Tools you may consider:

• CamStudio or other desktop video capture
• Digital camera or video cam
• Windows Movie Maker or other easy video editing application
• Presentation software such as Google docs, Open Office Present or PowerPoint
• Website (remember you all have a WordPress site)
• anything else …