Here’s all the news that’s fit to print about Wednesday’s class:
Name/Ball Pass Challenge
In an effort to review everyone’s name and to engage in a whole-class problem solving activity, we took the Name/Ball Pass Challenge. The instructions for this task are below so I won’t go into detail about how it works. Suffice it to say that our first effort had a time of about 30-ish seconds and through cooperative teamwork we were able to get that number down to only 8 seconds! No small feat.
Digital Tattoo and Professionalism Presentation Debrief
Thanks to everyone for attending this presentation. We debriefed it using the Walk-About Review Strategy. This involved each TC finishing the following sentence stems with information about the presentation:
- For me, the most interesting aspect of the presentation was…
- One thing I will do differently after seeing the presentation is…
- One question I have after watching the presentation is…
and then walking around and talking to other TCs about their responses to the same stems. After some talk time, we took up a few responses as a whole group. While the workshop was generally well received (after scanning the show of fingers, I think it scored a 2.5 or 3 out of 5), many seemed to agree that it would have benefitted from having examples with local flavour and from including more specific advice on appropriate online and professional behaviours.
Here’s the Walk-About Review sheet we used :
On a related note, here’s the trailer for the amazing 1971 Australian film directed by Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x186dbPIoM[/youtube]
If you have any interest in Aussie culture or have a penchant for meditative films, this classic can’t be beat.
Administrivia
- Contact Info Changes: If you have any more, please let me know. I’ll send out the FINAL version soon.
- ESA Rep: Good on Jenna for expressing interest. Make sure to get the vote out so she gets voted in!
- Field Trip Fair on the Blog: Please check an earlier post for info on an upcoming event featuring a variety of facilities that provide field trip destinations for K-12 students.
- Emailing Assignment Attachments: Please remember to include your surname and the name of the task in the document’s title. For instance, “Holbrook Factors”.
Me in a Bag Speeches
In an effort to develop vocal delivery skills that will prove invaluable in the classroom, we will be delivering Me in a Bag Speeches over the next few class sessions. Here’s how I scaffolded this task:
- A Model from Last Year
We watched a short MIAB speech from one of the TCs in the 2009-2010 cohort and drew conclusions about the structure and content of the speech.
- Criteria Sheet Examination
I handed out the task’s criteria sheet and we looked it over.
- My MIAB Speech
I delivered a speech on three items I had in my Saucony shoe box:
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- Running shoe
- Homemade Spinal Tap T-Shirt
- Plastic bowl
Using the feedback sandwich model for feedback, you presented me with beefs and bouquets relating to my performance. Here’s a visual of the sandwich:
and here a link to an Ezine article with more details on Feedback Sandwiches.
The outline that I suggest you use for your speech is below, as is the criteria sheet:
We will start presenting the speeches in Monday’s class. Please make sure you have your three artifacts, your rehearsed presentation, and your flash drive ready to go for that session. We will take time to review the criteria, rehearse, and choose the speaking order before we start the speeches.
“Nuff said true believers. See you Monday.
– Lawrence