Activity 2

Telling Stories: The presentation

The main point of this activity is to get the knowledge about how to transmit our productions, works, presentation and so on, in a  proper way, how to take the most important things, catch the attention of the audience and make them interested about the topic… For this we have to do a good presentation, but what is it? 

A good presentation is a useful tool to explain a topic, however it is not easy to dot well, a good presentation must be attractive, interesting, striking, etc. It is very important the use of the correct color, size, pictures, et,. and it must be very visual, simple, innovative, creative and of course adapted according to the audience. For this we have to use our imagination or have original ideas to create something. 

Furthermore, we have to be allowed by the author when using contents like pictures, music... so for this source there is a free license called Creative Commons. (CC) is a non-profit organization that allows us to use and to share both creativity and knowledge, which the author choose the use that people can do with it depending on authors had chosen before. There are different kinds of licenses that determine what kind of use you can make. 

 Slideshow

                      

Creative Commons & PWP tips from 7brainstorming

Preparing a good presentation is not a easy task. To make thing easy there has to be a lot of ellaboration. We have chosen recycling, to show or students the way to be creative. But the first though that came into my mind was, how to make a dull content such as recycling, attractive to my future 6-year-old students?

 

Catching their attention  with fantastic images, was our goal, because we wanted to motivate them, with a topic like recycling, we wanted them to feel the teacher passion.

As their teacher, I wanted to interact with them with great and catchy images, for that reason, I went on to the second position, letting images talk on my behalf, because I love them to be the stars.

Finally, music should be compulsory in primary education, to inspire our children, that was the reason for me to play a stretch of music on the slide share presentation.

Recycle def from 7brainstorming

Roles 

That week, our facilitator was Maria Moreno, and she toke into account the process of the activity and its parts tried to divide the tasks the best way possible. First we had to investigate about Creative commons licenses and Tips for doing a good presentation and summarize them two in a 30 slide show presentation.

Well she thought that the best way to divide the activity was the following:

1. 1-   Cristian had to explain what means to use Creative Commons License resource and how to do that in max. 10 slides.
2. 2-    Rocio had to upload this 10 slide show presentation to slideshare (with a CC license) using the tag #Soyer1314.
3. 3-   Fernando had to summarize the 20 basic tips for developing a good presentation in max. 20 slides.
4. 4-   Raquel had to upload this 20 slide show presentation to slideshare (with a CC license) using the tag #Soyer1314.
5. 5-   Feli had to prepare the oral presentation about recycling, searching the images with Creative Commons license, and preparing the presentation on slideshare, including the references.

When the search of information was finished Cristian and Fernando were in charge of making two presentations. One about Creative commons licence, and the second one about 20 basic tips for doing a good presentation.

About the start presentation, we chose recycle as the topic for our presentation, because we thought that was a very important topic to teach and that we have to take care of our world, we live on it and if we don´t conserve it, it will disappear.

On Monday that week, Feli presented our topic with a power point; she did it fantastically, explaining everything with coherence, so we think that everyone could easy understand what recycle is and its importance.

That week, we worked a lot, because that was the week when we modified our blog in order to make it easier to understand, organizing the different post in the correct order, and including some interesting news and videos. Cristian did it in his majority.

That week was also when we understood how we had to work properly if we wanted to feel comfortable with our roles and blog, because the weeks before we were a little bit lost with all our work but since that week we can say that we have improved a lot or way to work.

Roles distrubution

María Moreno: Facilitator

Fernando Tortosa: Curator-Farmer

Raquel Pelayo: Journalist

Cristian Paco: Journalist

Feliciana Travieso: Star

Rocío Ramón: Analyst

Rosana Yepes: Translator

 

What have we learned?

In this task we had investigate and learn about free resources, Creative commons licences and how to make good presentations with slides.

With it he had learn a lot of things, for example: now we know that for making a good presentation there are some basic guidelines that we must follow.

Some tips were more specific about how to make a good slide presentation, like choosing an adequate font stile, size and colour. But others were also for orals expositions in general, like “don’t turn your back to the audience”, “talk slowly” or “illustrate your discourse with stories or personal examples”. We think that this activity was great for us as future teachers because one of our main goals is to catch children attention and make them understand what we are saying.

But that was not just learning how to use APA Style, how to use Creative commons licences, how to make a good presentation or learning how to use “slideshare”. It was about the knowledge we can learn from it, and how can we apply that in our future job as teachers.

With the activity of 20 tips for a good presentation we have learn how to transmit information in a striking and effective way for catch people attention and make them feel interest about what are we saying. And, like Mercedes Ruiz said, if we make your students feel emotions when you are explaining something they will lean much better. So we think that competence is very important for our profession as teachers.

With the activity of making a presentation about Creative commons licences and free resources we have learn the importance of share knowledge.

 We have seen that there are lots of free resources that we can use because their authors let us with a Creative Commons licence. But the best thing in our opinion is that some of them let us use and modify their resources and we think that this is amazing. 

For example: If we share an idea with someone, that person can improve that idea, and if he shares it again another person can probably improve that again and finally we all can use that final project. So we have learnt that if we share knowledge we all get benefits. 

Self evaluation

I have put 8 points at my partners because all of us have done our work successfully. We divided it and without any problem we all did it and handed over it at time. We haven’t had any problem and I am so proud of my partners, because at least, we finished understanding each other. So, why don’t put them 10 points? Because, I am sure we could do our work better (if we wouldn’t have had other thing to do…). Always it can improve and do it better, but now I am so happy and enthusiastic with our work. We have improved and it is the important thing: our advance.

Finally, I would like to point out the Cristian´s work as facilitator. He has developed his work perfectly, doing easier our work and he has always been worried about the group work, not only individually. Without any doubts he has been the best facilitator.