Digital Citzenship, Safety and Success Video Blog

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Camera shows the sun is rising over the city and shadow is created from buildings.
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Kids are leaving their houses and going go to school.
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Kids are entering classrooms and take out papers and pens.

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Camera is filming children from above and shows them working out equations, making posters or preparing presentations.
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Show’s children in computer class typing things up very slowly and using very simple beginners programs that they should be familiar with by now although they’re not.

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Camera isn’t moving but is the object at the center of attention in the movie is being changed very quickly. The objects are computers and high tech electronics seen in everyday life on the streets or on buildings etc.

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Camera is moving through big rooms full of computer and there are employees on each one of them typing at high speeds and working very quickly.

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Men and women working on their laptops in restaurants and café’s

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Employees sitting at computers keeping constant watch on the progress of thing in a factory. The importance of the precision of their job is emphasized when the camera switches to show how the computers are keeping an exact record of what is happening every second.

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A child is running up to his father at home who is sitting at the computer and looks at the computer with a confused expression.
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A child is in school sitting at a computer but the computer isn’t shown. Slowly the camera turns to the computer that the child is focusing at and there is a big question mark.
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The view changes form one element of life to another. From computer presentations to projects, animals, weather, science, math etc.
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Camera is back at scene 4, shot 2. The child is being filmed from behind and only the back of his head can be seen. The computer is facing him but cannot be seen on camera yet. He slowly gets up and leaves out of sight. The camera has not changed position and now is staring at the computer which bears the words: “make me ready for this world”.

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Tenacious D Heaven and Hell (DIO_Black Sabbath)

I picked this video because it has one of my favorite songs in it. I also like it very much because it is played by my favorite band too!

Youtube Video 2

Little Hitler

I chose this video because its very funny. I also like it because it tells a short story about Hitler in probably the funniest way possible.

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Daft Hands - Double Speed (Faster, Better)

I like this video because its just one of those typical things that people see on youtube and then copy. There have been lots of people who copied the original maker of "Daft Hands" But this one is my favourite because its double as fast.

Photo Essay Reflection

What I most liked about the photo essays was the combination of music with the pictures because the music everybody used was very suitable for the stories and gave the right feeling. I think everyone did a good job on choosing the right music for their story. What I very much enjoyed about the essays was that everyone researched the history of their story well because I could pick up information very easily and learned a lot. What I didn’t like very much about the photo essays was that some had a few spelling mistakes because it easily broke my concentration off the stories when I saw simple mistakes. I also didn’t like some of the layouts of photo essays which must have been because the ones who made it didn’t watch the essay enough on full screen to know what it will look like once it’s completely done. If I was to revise my own photo essay I wouldn’t definitely work on spelling and slide transitions. The slide transitions can change quite a part of the feeling the story brings over if they are somehow connected to what the story is about. It wasn’t too hard to tell a story with pictures and music because I and my partner picked a rather easy story which had a clear timeline to it and therefore we didn’t have to write much of the story ourselves.

How to Addict your Audience to your PowerPoint

If PowerPoint was a drug then it would be a depressant, a narcotic. There are three steps to addict your audience to PowerPoint presentations. Step one is going cold turkey. This means to go cold and get rid of all the useless features of your presentation so your audience actually fined pleasure in watching your PowerPoint. For instance get rid of templates and cut the text, make sure the audience won’t ignore your speeches just because your PowerPoint is too full of information. Make yourself the information source and fill up your PowerPoint with images and color. Step two is to find the appropriate dosage. Keep your PowerPoint simple and don’t give the audience too much information, go through the presentation with them slowly and in steps. Step three is to develop dependency. Get your audience addicted to your simple and easy to understand presentations and keep them wanting more.

The 10/20/30 Rule

The optimal number of slides for a PowerPoint presentation is 10 slides. Ten good topics to have for each slide if you’re a businessman are a problem, your solution, business model, underlying magic/technology, marketing and sales, competition, team Projections and milestones, status and timeline and the summary with a call to action. You should spend about two minutes on each slide which will result your PowerPoint in lasting around twenty minutes. These twenty minutes of introduction will allow you forty minutes of discussion about the subject and your presentation. Also keeps your font below thirty points so people aren’t disturbed by the reading being too hard or too easy. The rule is 10 slides, 20 minutes and 30 points in font, nothing more to a good presentation.

10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

These are ten tips for a killer PowerPoint presentation. Don’t abuse your visuals, keep them simple and without text so your audience is more focused on what you say than on the presentation. Make eye contact with everyone so they feel that you are giving them attention and want them to learn. Show some personality during your presentation so the audience knows you are just as interested in the subject as they should be. Make them laugh so they are having fun as well as learning. Interact with your audience by asking and responding some questions throughout your presentation. Tell the audience the truth while presenting so you don’t make them feel you are speaking just the exact way you would understand things. Don’t over prepare your presentation so it sounds like a perfect dialogue, be spontaneous and improvise a little! Pace around and show some gestures to get involved into your speech, nobody wants to see a non moving stick presenting to them. Don’t say “umm” or “ah” too much, watch how you speak and what you say. Make you presentation and what you say very different, make sure they remember your special way of presenting.

Is Your Own PowerPoint Quality Really Meaningless? (Group Project)

• Graphics and little writing should be included.
• Too much writing on a slide is not good to use in a presentation.
• Good PowerPoint is with only images and the spoken text in your head.
• Adding text will lower the PowerPoint quality.
• Adding text and taking away the graphics will make your presentation even worse.
• Spoken word and images alone result in the most effective learning experience.

What Do I Think Of PowerPoint?

I think PowerPoint is only sometimes used in a good manner. Personally if a class is based purely on a PowerPoint presentation I easily lose track and start staring at the screen without finding a meaning in it. However it can be used well for some things such as quizzes for instance. PowerPoint allows you to relate every little piece of media and even the color of your presentation to the subject it relates to. I would probably keep everything that PowerPoint has to offer and not change much because I don’t think it’s the software that can limit your teaching in class but its how you present it. A bunch of pictures with two hours of talking is boring. Though reading off a screen for the same amount of time can also bore the classroom. I have witnessed how PowerPoint can limit the way teachers present to you but then again I have seen a lot of good teaching come from it. If I was teaching a class I would be structure my presentation very carefully and present it to myself to make sure that it can be learned from. I would probably add little or not animation and keep everything short. I’d probably only use PowerPoint for a very limited detailed part of a subject because PowerPoint is too simple to cover the whole thing. Id would definitely put media in it and label it so the students are aware of what they are looking at. To me the presentation should also not have too much color and movement. A simple but well presented presentation can keep the students focused on the information and can’t keep them staring at all the movement happening on the screen. I would definitely use PowerPoint if I was presenting on a location or on a product. To me though, PowerPoint has shown its qualities in tutorials. It is very good software to use when teaching things step by step.

Still, PowerPoint

The two texts pick up and continue the two earlier ones in some sort of fashion because one is against and the other is for PowerPoint, they are like a detailed extension of why or why not we should use PowerPoint. The first text states that digital technology can only enhance student learning if the technologies capacities can actually affect teaching to make it better for students to understand. This is not the case with PowerPoint but at stead electronic communication has great potential to enhance our learning. The author of the text is a teacher that wants his students to apply what they learn to their lives and he identifies several characteristics that are very pedagogical in contributing to meet his goals for teaching. Among these are: Courses should focus on learning rather than teaching, Interaction with the material should be student-controlled rather than teacher controlled, content delivery should be based on student knowledge, driven by frequent formative feedback, courses should be structured so that students interact with material in a pedagogically sound way and it should all be done in the most parsimonious way. The author compares how PowerPoint and electronic communication can help him achieve these five goals. Electronic communication is controlled by the students. Students can interact with the material when and where they want. This helps them to interact with each other regarding what they’re learning and they have more time to spend on their work. PowerPoint in the other hand is more teacher-controlled and cannot be affected by the students. It denies interaction between students and teacher in class because they are all staring at a screen. If a student didn’t catch something then he missed the slide and will have to wait until next class period. The author states that when PowerPoint is used in class it doesn’t necessarily make you bad but it shows that you are more concentrated on the quality of your presentation rather than student learning. The other text tells us how to love PowerPoint. PowerPoint is cheap, easy to use and is very limited. However we live in a world where convenience in price beats quality in every case. The content in PowerPoint is in the medium itself because it is easy to pick up things in the simplest manners such as through pictures and videos. The Author shows some laziness in stating that the application is good because it can be run by itself. Even without text there can be a lot learned.

PowerPoint- Evil or Not?

PowerPoint evil? That’s possible. Tom Rocklin states that PowerPoint does nothing to make sure the people you are showing a presentation to are actually filtering the information. He says that it encourages to passively absorb information by just looking at slides with the possible chance of not even reading them. Tom Creed tells us that PowerPoint makes you concentrate much more on presenting your work well at stead of actually helping others to learn from it. The other text suggests that PowerPoint is pedagogically useful technology that helps to teach better. It’s useful and can be shown on overhead projectors if printed on transparent paper. A teacher from the second text states that PowerPoint is flexible and easy to use. The entertainment that PowerPoint can provide will keep the kids focused. If anyone in his class doesn’t understand the task it is easy to explain to him again and if the students need to look up some information again which will support them in doing their homework they can look on the web to find the PowerPoint presentation of today’s class. PowerPoint only requires to be organized once and never again. It is not a set of scribbled notes and neither can it be lost. PowerPoint also keeps the watchers focused on something so they don’t catch a glimpse of you staring at your notes every now and then. It can give others the feeling that you know fully what you are talking about. PowerPoint can include visuals which have also been proven to be very useful next to a short text to help understand better. Back to PowerPoint being evil though; it can be very disturbing to have the content of a presentation flashing red and zooming around all the time. It can show the relevance of a piece of information but can also distract very easily. If the audience is bored its usually not because of a decoration failure but because of a content failure. We come to the conclusion that PowerPoint is a very useful program that should enforce presentations but not substitute them. The misuse of powerpoint can lead to offending the audience.