Session 5

This week I really enjoyed having the opportunity to create a rubric for an upcoming project that I am doing in my U.S. history classes. The project is on the 1950s and 1960s and students are to take their chosen topic and create a PowerPoint presentation. I was glad that I was able to take into account many of the things that I learned from both Presentation Zen and the many projects that we did to make this project and rubric much better than it would have been. I think that the project now is much more geared towards digital storytelling and I also plan to have the students use Animoto to create a 30 second "trailer" of their topic to get all in the class excited about their up coming topic.

Overall, I am sad that this class is coming to an end because I really found much of what we did to be very applicable to my own classroom today and I have already utilized so much. I also feel like I have become much more aware of the things that make me a good storyteller/presenter and also those things that I need to do to become a better one.