Today we discussed some tips and tricks to giving a good presentation. When I give presentations, I usually have a hard time slowing myself down and giving my students enough wait time; In the future, I hope to increase my wait time in the classroom and while giving presentations. It is also very important to talk professionally while giving presentations; There is nothing more distracting than a presenter constantly saying like, uh, and uhm.
In class we also went through a Rethinking Education discussion. I really enjoyed the "get off the fence protocol." This discussion activity really encouraged participation and helped facilitate discussion by grouping similar thinking students together to discuss why they agree/disagree/have no opinion with the topic, "Technology makes life more difficult for teachers." This topic really got me thinking. I at first disagreed with this statement, but as I was listening to some of the other arguments, I began to float between no opinion and disagree.
Some things that we did near the end of lab today included discussing how to evaluate websites and how to use the SMARTboard. I thought that the triangulation idea was a really strong point to take from today's class. It is really important that we stress to our students the need to have multiple sources when researching a topic and the need to cross check data. It is also important that we use triangulation in our own research (we need to do what we ask of our students).
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