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Final PresentationThe 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 will provide visual cues for your audience while you explain how the media integrated into your thematic unit will help your students achieve the learning objectives stated in your thematic unit description.Format: 20-minutes maximum, working with a partner
7 minutes - individual report student A
7 minutes - individual report student B
6 minutes - compare and contrast decisions made about how media is used to support student learning within each unit.Media to support your presentation
PowerPoint (for the individual and compare/contrast portions of the group presentation)
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) Resources that should be used to prepare your presentation:
- The graded thematic unit description (incorporate the feedback you received from your graded paper)
- RWLDs and Lecture Handouts, including:
- Systematic Instructional Design
- Planning for instruction (includes info about ABCD objectives, and instructional methods
- Your written reflections from completed projects, based on the reflection guidelines and the INTASC+1 Standards
Requirements for the Individual Reports (7 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 performance objectives (unit paper, section III)
- Describe how the media projects that you developed this semester (listed below) will help students achieve the stated performance objectives from your thematic unit. For each project, identify the unit performance objective that it was designed to support and describe how your students will use the media to support their learning.
- Demonstrate one of your media projects. Actually open and demonstrate the project (screen captures will not suffice), showing your audience how it works while you explain how it supports student learning within your unit.
- Describe an idea for integrating the use of PowerPoint to support student learning with regard to one of your unit performance objectives. Identify an objective from your unit paper that it could be used to support, then describe how it would be used to support students' learning.
Describe how you have already designed these four media to facilitate student learning:
Describe an idea about how PowerPoint could also be used to facilitate student learning within your planned unit.
Inspiration PowerPoint WebQuest Spreadsheet Video Requirements for compare/contrast (6 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 decisions made by you and your partner and describe the implications of those decisions on your students' learning.
- After comparing your projects, each group member must identify at least 2 ways to improve the use of technology to facilitate student learning within their planned thematic unit.
Points: 90
Individual Point Structure:
Define the unit context
5
Describe the audience (learners)
5
State all unit performance objectives
5
Describe how media projects facilitate student learning (each aligned 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.
- Each student will receive an individual grade.
- You must arrive on time for your presentation and be present the whole time to earn full credit.
Page updated: September 2, 2009
Ed Tech & Design Instructors, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Northern Iowa