http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/24/powerpoint-in-literature-classes/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/24/powerpoint-in-literature-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-37404 Joe Scotese Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53:49 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=818#comment-37404 I was wondering if you've seen our website.  We've been using Power Point to create "Illuminated Texts" of various works from poetry to Hemingway.  The kids are starting to use Flash now -- just because it has a lot more power and is more easily seen across browsers.  The website is www.awaytoteach.net  and make sure to use a browser other than Internet Explorer.  Thanks. I was wondering if you’ve seen our website.  We’ve been using Power Point to create “Illuminated Texts” of various works from poetry to Hemingway.  The kids are starting to use Flash now — just because it has a lot more power and is more easily seen across browsers.  The website is http://www.awaytoteach.net  and make sure to use a browser other than Internet Explorer.  Thanks.

]]> http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/24/powerpoint-in-literature-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-37181 Joe Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:54:57 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=818#comment-37181 The thing to remember about Powerpoint is that it's really a (basic but very usable) multimedia authoring tool.  Sure, it's usually used for bullet points and graphs, but it can do a lot more.  Most interesting, I think, is not when it's used for classroom presentations by the teacher for the class, but by the students to create projects.  I've seen it used, and had my students use it, in this way many times, and the results can be startling to the students (and to me).  An example is my students' (from several years ago) digital poetry projects.  Each student chose a poem, thought about how to divide it into sections (not necessarily lines) that could each be assigned a slide.  Then they chose images, different ways to display the text (fonts, transitions, sizes), backgrounds, and music (and voice) to accompany the poem.  What came out (in the best cases) was deeper thinking about the poetry, deeper engagement in the interpretation and presentation, deeper connections to other poems and other works of literature and to other classes and life experience.Because students (often) already know PP or (if they don't already know it) can learn it relatively quickly and easily, it frees them to focus on the choices and decisions and intepretive leaps necessary in creating (not just consuming) a multimedia presentation of a poem.  I've also seen the same tool used quite successfully for autobiographical or fictional digital storytelling projects.You can see some examples of this kind of work (minus the music, unfortunately, because of copyright restrictions, and minus some of the mistakes) in our digital gallery, Looking at Learning, Looking Together --http://cndls.georgetown.edu/crossroads/vkp/dportfolio The thing to remember about Powerpoint is that it’s really a (basic but very usable) multimedia authoring tool.  Sure, it’s usually used for bullet points and graphs, but it can do a lot more.  Most interesting, I think, is not when it’s used for classroom presentations by the teacher for the class, but by the students to create projects.  I’ve seen it used, and had my students use it, in this way many times, and the results can be startling to the students (and to me).  An example is my students’ (from several years ago) digital poetry projects.  Each student chose a poem, thought about how to divide it into sections (not necessarily lines) that could each be assigned a slide.  Then they chose images, different ways to display the text (fonts, transitions, sizes), backgrounds, and music (and voice) to accompany the poem.  What came out (in the best cases) was deeper thinking about the poetry, deeper engagement in the interpretation and presentation, deeper connections to other poems and other works of literature and to other classes and life experience.Because students (often) already know PP or (if they don’t already know it) can learn it relatively quickly and easily, it frees them to focus on the choices and decisions and intepretive leaps necessary in creating (not just consuming) a multimedia presentation of a poem.  I’ve also seen the same tool used quite successfully for autobiographical or fictional digital storytelling projects.You can see some examples of this kind of work (minus the music, unfortunately, because of copyright restrictions, and minus some of the mistakes) in our digital gallery, Looking at Learning, Looking Together –http://cndls.georgetown.edu/crossroads/vkp/dportfolio

]]> http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/24/powerpoint-in-literature-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-37177 POEMS, POETS, RHYMES AND POETRY » Blog Archive » PowerPoint in Literature Classes? Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:58:44 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=818#comment-37177 [...] Original post by cac.ophony.org [...] [...] Original post by cac.ophony.org [...]

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