2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute

1. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Good Morning!

2. Day Six Agenda Scribe Report, Breakfast, Browsing Ticket out the Door Review Review of Norms Perspective Writing Teaching Demo/Workshop Discussion: What makes a good packet, using technology effectively, the debrief process LUNCH- Response Groups Inquiry Groups: Questioning the Common Core Ticket out the Door

3. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Scribe Report

4. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Ticket out the Door Review

5. 2013 Summer Institute Norms Participation Be on time When contributing, try to stay on point Be honest, whether critical or complementary Ask questions so that you can fully understand Be open and flexible: “Trust the process” Specify / Clarify / Be aware of times during the course of the day Uphold confidentiality within our group, now and in the future Understand that photos and videos may be taken at the Institute “Fulfill your role” Listening Listen more than you’re speaking Give your undivided attention to the speaker Be present, especially when people are speaking View constructive criticism as helpful/don’t withhold your opinions in favor of my feelings Use technology to enhance understanding, avoid distractions whenever possible

6. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Perspective Writing

7. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Teaching Demo/Workshops

8. The Seven Deadly Sins of PowerPoint Presentations Adapted from About.com Dr. Joseph Sommerville http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/marketing/a/7sinsofppt.htm

9. “The key to success is to make certain your slide show is a visual aid and not a visual distraction.”

10. Deadly Sin #1Poor use of transitions and sound effects • Can be a distraction to your audience • Takes focus away from the message • Leave the fade-ins, fade-outs, wipes, blinds, dissolves, checkerboards, cuts, covers and splits to Hollywood filmmakers.

11. Deadly Sin #2Standard Clipart The widely used clipart included with the Powerpoint program has become a “visual cliché.” Make certain that you need your graphics to enhance your message.

13. Deadly Sin #4Text-Heavy Slides Projected slides are a good medium for depicting an idea graphically or providing an overview. They are a poor medium for detail and reading. Avoid paragraphs, quotations and even complete sentences. Limit your slides to five lines of text and use words and phrases to make your points. The audience will be able to digest and retain key points more easily. Don’t use your slides as speaker’s notes or to simply project an outline of your presentation.

14. Deadly Sin #6 Reading. An oral presentation should focus on interactive speaking and listening, not reading by the speaker or the audience. The demands of spoken and written language differ significantly. Spoken language is shorter, less formal and more direct. Reading text ruins a presentation. A related point has to do with handouts for the audience. One of your goals as a presenter is to capture and hold the audience’s attention. If you distribute materials before your presentation, your audience will be reading the handouts rather than listening to you. Often, parts of an effective presentation depend on creating suspense to engage the audience. If the audience can read everything you’re going to say, that element is lost.

15. Deadly Sin #7Faith in Technology • Be prepared by having a back-up of your presentation on a CD-ROM. • Better yet is a compact-flash memory card with an adapter for the PCMCIA slot in your notebook. With it, you can still make last-minute changes. • Use generic fonts so they don’t change on a different system. • Be cautious incorporating music or video.

20. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Lunch / Response Groups

21. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute Inquiry Groups

22. 2013 Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=jxefsLG2eps#at=38 -What message does this advertisement convey? Visuals/Rhetoric-What questions can be raised?

23. Speaking Back to the Common Core In a postscript to his book Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones, Thomas Newkirk presents 9 criticisms of the CCSS. 3-2-1 Reading Response While independently reading a text, reflect on and record: 3 key ideas 2 new ideas 1 question We will share in our inquiry groups

24. Speaking Back to the Common Core Big Ideas - Questions raised -

25. Special Assignment for Tomorrow Please bring a clean copy of one or two pieces of your writing, with or without your name included. Attach one or more sheets of blank computer paper to the front. We will be responding to the piece using during “Silent Share” tomorrow.

26. Special Assignment for Wednesday Please bring a piece of writing (a book, an article, a poem, etc.) you read recently that moved you as a reader. The text does not need to be something you used in your classroom. We will be exploring these texts in new ways in an effort to question our assumptions about fiction and nonfiction; narrative writing and argument.

27. Ticket out the Door: • What breakthroughs, epiphanies or discoveries did you have today? • What concerns do you have?