The goal of today’s lesson was for Shep and I to model what your “Me in a Bag” speech might look like. On a related note, here’s what it looks like to see “Austin Powers in a Nuthshell”:
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Now, where was I? Oh, yes “Me in a Bag” speech. To get in an artifcact mood, we engaged in an object transformation drama activity called “What is it?” with the help of a tie belonging to Shep’s dad. The instructions for this game as well as many others can be found in this PDF file:
Drama in the Classroom Activities
After the warm-up, both Shep and I presented our speeches. Your middle school students will find graphic organizers very useful and, in a continuing effort to model best practice, we organized our speeches using this outline:
You can use this format as well or you can tweak it to suit your personal presentation style.
The guidelines for this speech are as follows:
- It should be around 4 to 5 minutes long
- You should present 3 personal artifacts and 1 of those should relate to your experiences in the middle years
- Your speech will be videotaped so please bring in a 4 GB or larger USB flash drive on which you will store the video captured with CMS’s swanky new flash video camerars.
Next class we will discuss the criteria for your presentation, you will get a chance to rehearse, and we will break into two groups for the presentations.
Halfway through the lesson we headed across Main Mall to BIO 2000 for a Digital Tattoo lecture. Much food for thought was presented and you can explore some of the thought provoking ideas at the Digital Tattoo website.
Before I end this post I want to remind you that Shep and I set out a few guidelines for sending assignments via email to help us manage the paper chase. We ask that you please:
- Include your name in the file’s title
- Send attachments as .doc files preferably (.docx are fine, too)
Take care and we’ll see you – artifacts and flash drive in hand – on Monday in Scarfe 204.
– Lawrence