Day 2
The day began with me trying to figure out how to use my USB drive—turns out that I just had to turn the computer off and on again. Problem solved! I also looked over some of my old English 0090 presentations; fortunately, I don’t see any more that I have to work on other than just the ones that I mentioned last Friday.
Today I worked a lot on a Prezi on “Writing an Effective Paragraph.” Mostly, I added a lot of written content from my old “Effective Paragraph” PowerPoint. I learned more about zooming and working with the Zebra tool. I still have to master “grouping,” though, and I really haven’t done much with color or design on this particular Prezi at this point. It’s a work in progress. Again, you can find this Prezi at http://prezi.com/o_wyng8tij2u/writing-an-effective-paragraph/. Near the end of the day, I realized that I could just click on the frame and hit delete, and that would delete frames. So that’s a step in the right direction.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
first day at the ctl
Today was my first “official” day at the CTL. I learned how to use the Meeting function in GroupWise and saw the CTL library. Also got familiar with the voice mail. They had a computer all ready for me when I got in at about 12 today.
I decided to start by exploring Prezi a bit. I looked over some of their presentations on how to use it. It seems to be pretty dynamic and I’d like to at least try to use it for my own presentations, in some way, shape, or form.
POSSIBLE PREZI ASSIGNMENT--
Possible introductory assignment for English 0090 students (and maybe even English 1021 students): based on http://prezi.com/gco-vb9vvvy2/30-things-about-me/ (“30 Things about Me: All About Brooke Ahrens”). Have each student present a Prezi on his or her life. (Although I think 30 is a bit much…10 is probably sufficient.) It could even become the basis for a narrative essay or paragraph.
Here are presentations on grammar that I have already completed for English 0090—
• Parts of Speech/S-V Review
• Missing Comma Errors
• Misplaced Commas and Fused Sentences
• Fragments and Modifiers
• Verb Errors
• Pronoun Errors
• Apostrophes
• Wrong Words and Capitalization
Here are presentations on grammar needed for English 0090—
• Achieving Parallel Construction
• Active vs. Passive Voice
• Punctuation Info
For grammar pres.---either (a) add in more exercises in PP or (b) change them to Prezis.
Other English 0090 presentations needed (most likely)—these could use Prezi
• Writing a Paragraph
• Writing a Brief Essay (before revision part of course)
I am going to be teaching English 0090 both in person and online, most likely, in Fall 2011. So I’d like to have the grammar presentations be done in such a way that I don’t have to have two different versions. I do think that my grammar presentations could use the following: (a) voice over, (b) more examples, and (c) additional exercises with answers.
Because I want consistency for both my online and FTF classes, I don’t think I’ll be using the “clickers”. I should ask M. Mendez if he has found a way to embed quizzes within PowerPoints….
At the end of the day, I played around to try to make my own Prezi on “Writing an Effective Pargraph.” (http://prezi.com/o_wyng8tij2u/writing-an-effective-paragraph/) I didn’t get too far but I get the jist of it. Remember: double click=text. Still a lot to learn.
I decided to start by exploring Prezi a bit. I looked over some of their presentations on how to use it. It seems to be pretty dynamic and I’d like to at least try to use it for my own presentations, in some way, shape, or form.
POSSIBLE PREZI ASSIGNMENT--
Possible introductory assignment for English 0090 students (and maybe even English 1021 students): based on http://prezi.com/gco-vb9vvvy2/30-things-about-me/ (“30 Things about Me: All About Brooke Ahrens”). Have each student present a Prezi on his or her life. (Although I think 30 is a bit much…10 is probably sufficient.) It could even become the basis for a narrative essay or paragraph.
Here are presentations on grammar that I have already completed for English 0090—
• Parts of Speech/S-V Review
• Missing Comma Errors
• Misplaced Commas and Fused Sentences
• Fragments and Modifiers
• Verb Errors
• Pronoun Errors
• Apostrophes
• Wrong Words and Capitalization
Here are presentations on grammar needed for English 0090—
• Achieving Parallel Construction
• Active vs. Passive Voice
• Punctuation Info
For grammar pres.---either (a) add in more exercises in PP or (b) change them to Prezis.
Other English 0090 presentations needed (most likely)—these could use Prezi
• Writing a Paragraph
• Writing a Brief Essay (before revision part of course)
I am going to be teaching English 0090 both in person and online, most likely, in Fall 2011. So I’d like to have the grammar presentations be done in such a way that I don’t have to have two different versions. I do think that my grammar presentations could use the following: (a) voice over, (b) more examples, and (c) additional exercises with answers.
Because I want consistency for both my online and FTF classes, I don’t think I’ll be using the “clickers”. I should ask M. Mendez if he has found a way to embed quizzes within PowerPoints….
At the end of the day, I played around to try to make my own Prezi on “Writing an Effective Pargraph.” (http://prezi.com/o_wyng8tij2u/writing-an-effective-paragraph/) I didn’t get too far but I get the jist of it. Remember: double click=text. Still a lot to learn.
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