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Final Presentation

The final presentation is your opportunity to report on how technology has been designed to support your thematic unit and to compare your choices to those of a classmate. Specifically, you are expected to reflect upon decisions made about how different media types contribute to student learning. How will the media you integrated into your planned thematic unit help students achieve the stated instructional objectives?

Assignment
Report on the integration of technology to support student learning within your thematic unit. Use PowerPoint to support your presentation. Your slide show should provide visual cues for your audience while you explain how the media integrated into your thematic unit will help students achieve the instructional objectives stated in your thematic unit description.

Format: 15-minutes maximum, working with a partner

5 minutes - individual report student A
5 minutes - individual report student B
5 minutes - compare and contrast decisions about how media is used to support student learning within each unit.

Media to support your presentation

PowerPoint or Google Docs slide show (for both individual and compare/contrast portions of the presentation)

Resources that should be used to prepare

Requirements for the Individual Reports (5 minutes each recommended)

  • Introduce yourself
  • Describe the thematic unit context (unit paper, section I)
  • Describe the learners (unit paper, section II)
  • State each of the unit goals & objectives (unit paper, section III)
  • Describe how the media projects you have developed this semester will help students achieve the stated instructional objectives from your thematic unit. For each project listed below, identify the related unit objective that it was designed to support and describe how your students will use the media to support their learning.

    Address these four projects (align each to a unit objective)
    Inspiration
    WebQuest
    Spreadsheet
    Video
  • Open and demonstrate one of your projects. Actually open and demonstrate a project (screen captures will not suffice), showing your audience how it works while you explain how it will support student learning within your planned unit.

Requirements for compare/contrast (5 minutes recommended)

  • Compare and contrast how media is used to support student learning in each person's thematic unit. Consider how the same media types were used within the thematic units to help students attain different performance objectives. Identify at least 2 similarities and 2 differences in the choices made by you and your partner and describe the implications of those choices on your students' learning.
  • After comparing your projects, identify at least 2 ways to improve the use of technology to facilitate student learning within each unit. That is, at least two ideas for each unit must be addressed. Each person may describe their own ideas, or partners may offer suggestions to one another.

 

Points: 90

UNI Content Standards 9 and 11

Individual Point Structure:

Describe the unit context

5

Describe the learners

5

State all unit goals & ABCD objectives (even those not aligned with a class project)

5

Describe how media projects facilitate student learning (and align each to a unit objective)

30

Demonstrate one project that best facilitates student learning. Explain how it does so.

10
Compare the use of media to support learning within the units 10
After comparing the projects, identify ways to improve the use of technology to facilitate student learning within the thematic units 10
Overall quality of presentation (includes evidence of collaboration, technical preparedness, quality of delivery and professionalism) 15

Special Notes:

  • Students are responsible for knowing how to operate the equipment in the room where they present. Assistance will not be provided during the presentation. Support is provided in class prior to the presentation date. Among other things, you are being assessed on your ability to deliver a presentation supported by technology.
  • Each student will receive an individual grade based in part on evidence of collaboration and the quality (depth) of similarities and differences compared with their partner.
  • You must arrive on time for your presentation and be present the whole time to earn full credit.

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UNIPage updated: November 9, 2009
Ed Tech & Design Instructors, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Northern Iowa