Area 3 Writing Project Blog

The five days have flown by…and what an amazing week it has been. Please jump in and share your thoughts on Telling Stories in a Digital Age.

I’m sitting in an A3WP tech workshop brainstorming with our summer institute teachers about what makes a PowerPoint presentation ineffective, boring, confusing and/or painful to sit through.

Here are some of our thoughts:

• Too much writing on a slide
• Horrid color combinations
• Background sounds
• Spelling and grammar errors
• Too many objects or words flying in

Don McMillan’s MySpace video does a great job of summing up bad PowerPoints -

Check out some excellent PowerPoint DOs and DON’Ts resources posted by Prairie Lands Writing Project’s Mark Henderson.  Check back soon for a link to Bee Foster’s handout of PowerPoint do’s and dont’s.

I’m posting the newest version of Karl Fisch’s wonderful - just keeps getting better - Did You Know video because it was probably the most uploaded video in today’s session.

Here’’s the slideshow I’ve been using to introduce WebQuests.

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How can blogs help students and teachers? What are some of your thoughts and ideas?Download Video: Posted by rachelboyd at TeacherTube.com.