Introduction to Presenting

1. Introduction to Presenting

2. What Does Presenting Involve? • Providing information in verbal, written, and multimedia forms • Ensuring listeners understand the organization and development of ideas • Selecting the appropriate content, format, and multimedia tools for a presentation's purpose and audience.

3. Value of Making Presentations • Demonstrates content knowledge • Promotes ability to organize information for sharing • Builds appreciation for the demands of having listeners • Draws on skills in writing with a purpose for an audience

4. Making Presentations For Different Purposes • Informing • Analyzing • Narrating • Persuading • Describing

5. Possible Areas of Difficulty for Struggling Students • Gathering relevant information • Setting a purpose • Organizing information • Understanding audience needs • Selecting appropriate multimedia tools

6. Discussion Questions 1 • What kinds of presentations are your students required to make? Why? • In what ways do you draw upon reading and writing strategies when developing your students' presenting skills? • What challenges do your students face in gathering and organizing information to meet audience needs?

7. How Can I Support Students?

8. Use of Evidence-Based Practices • Provide Direct Instruction • Help Students Present for a Variety of Purposes • Engage Students in Ongoing Assessment

9. Differentiated Instruction • Plan instruction that considers students' readiness, learning needs, and interests. • Use a range of technology tools to: • engage learners at varying levels • engage learners in multiple ways. • offer students options for demonstrating understanding and mastery

10. Teacher-Dependent Ways to Differentiate • By Content • Different levels of reading or resource materials, reading buddies, small group instruction, curriculum compacting, multi-level computer programs and Web Quests, audio materials, etc. • By Product • Activity choice boards, tiered activities, multi-level learning center tasks, similar readiness groups, choice in group work, varied journal prompts, mixed readiness groups with targeted roles for students, etc. • By Process • Tiered products, students choose mode of presentation to demonstrate learning, independent study, varied rubrics, mentorships, interest-based investigations

11. Student-Dependent Ways to Differentiate • By Readiness • Options in content, topic, or theme, options in the tools needed for production, options in methods for engagement • By Profile • Consideration of gender, culture, learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses • By Process • Identification of background knowledge/gaps in learning, vary amount of direct instruction, and practice, pace of instruction, complexity of activities, and exploration of a topic

12. Discussion Questions 2 • How can you use UDL principles to enhance students' presentation abilities? • How do you build differentiation into teaching students ways to present information? • What variety of classroom activities most lend themselves to authentic presentations?

13. Provide Direct Instruction: Possible Strategies • Demonstrate your own techniques for incorporating digital tools into presentations. • Explicitly show students how to use a variety of digital tools, tied to presentation purpose. • Provide step-by-step tutorials and models for varied presentation tools

14. Help Students Present for a Variety of Purposes:Possible Strategies • Help students understand that different digital formats can be used for different purposes. • Have students present the same talk for different purposes; e.g. persuading, describing, analyzing, informing, and narrating. • Expand the concept of audience, based on purpose.

15. Engage Students in Ongoing Formative Evaluation: Possible Strategies • Have students use a rubric to provide speaker feedback. • Add elements of speaking and listening to the publishing stage of the writing process. • Use blogs and podcasts to publish and share presentations beyond the classroom.

16. Introduce Students to Technology Tools • Example tools for multimedia presentations: • Powerpoint and other slideshow creators • Browser-based presentation tools; e.g. Prezi and Empressr • Audio recording and editing tools; e.g. Garageband • Simple animation via tools; e.g. Goanimate and Voki • Annotation tools; e.g. Voicethread or Coach's Eye

17. Discussion Questions 3 • What are some methods you have used to effectively expand student understanding of why and how to tailor presentations to audience interest and need? • What technology tools do you use? How do you teach students to select the appropriate tools? • What technology tools have you used to support gathering and analyzing data?

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