Final presentation

Family Traditions

Here is my final presentation that captures all my work from the EDTC6340 class:

This is a presentation about my family:

Copyright: play music and tap into emotion

I have actually used music to a presentation for the first time. For the lack of proper music I just picked a Bollywood soundtrack that does not go well with the presentation. I don't mind that since the whole idea of making changes is to learn to do how to-s. I have also added humor to my presentation. In slide 8 I have taken out the image of "copyright behind bars" and added picture of a young woman behind bars who is making a silly face. This is not done to suggest anything derogatory for or towards women. I just felt that it was appropriate in this sense. It tries to portray that people can end up behind bars by just being ignorant- which I believe this woman in the image represents.

Copyright humor

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Chapter 9: Tapping Emotions

A successful presenter must know the audience in order to tap into their emotions (Burmark, 2011). The presenter must know what the individual wants and/or what will spark the interest of the individual. For example, in order to raise money for under-privileged children in Africa we must present to the people who would care enough after seeing children suffer. Educators, parents, corporate offices etc would probably respond more towards a presentation that has pictures of children suffering in silence. The use of visual imagery is also very important to know how an individual thinks (Burmark, 2011). A very typical lesson on my first day with a set of students would be to make a Wordle presentation that would describe the students themselves (Burmark, 2011). In this way they may be able to learn new words as well as introduce themselves to their new teacher.

Chapter 8: Playing Music

I have never thought of using music for a presentation. I always thought that presentations have to accompany a lot of talk. I wonder if Steve Jobs ever used music for any of his presentations. While music can help students concentrate on work better it can also create disruption. For example, currently my students are a group of ESL students and I teach them technology. Music works so well in order for them to gather their thoughts and carry on along a lesson. On the other hand, years back when I was a brand new teacher of math to a group of ninth graders in a low performing school music did not always work well in the classroom. As it turned out that some students did not see this as a privilege. There would be frequent verbal arguments between two students over which song to play. Nevertheless, I do believe that music can work wonders-specially for kids who have learning disability such as ADD. Burmark also suggests use of drama during instructions(Burmark, 2011). I have not yet used so myself but would like to see how that would work out. I think in order for a presenter to tap into emotions or tweak the interest of the audience it is very important to know the audience first. Music is an integral part in a child's education. I would like to see it become part of public school curriculum.

Use images, harness humor and connect with audience

Hi! This is my fourth installment of the copyright presentation. This time I have used a lot of images (some humorous) for the presentation to look a bit less boring. Should do the job of "grabbbing" the audience. Since I searched for images on google images with keyword "copyright" I got a lot of hits. It was interesting that most of these images were in black and white. It reminded me how black- and- white rules are when it comes to matters with copyright. Not a lot of grey ares...I yet have to see what other improvements I can make after reading each of the subsequent chapters. Hope it keeps looking better and better...

Copyright music

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