Edina Digital Age Learning

The focus of this breakout session at the Superhero Conference was to look at presentations and how we can make them better. It was one of the more popular sessions at last year's event, and I wanted to be sure to see it!  John UnruhFriesen shared how PowerPoint bullets are all our students see. Following the Explore...Explain model of Ramsey Mussalam's Keynote , he began by having us begin by creating our own presentation via Google Docs. Here is my finished model: In Google Presentation now, when searching for images to include, you can now see only images that have been labeled for reuse! Always size from the corner. Filling the entire screen is better! Malcolm Gladwell in Blink asks, "How many seconds does it take for a student to judge your effectiveness?" Gladwell says, "10!" When we see something good right away, that sets the mood for the way things will go in the rest of the time. How many bullets do we see in meetings? We do the ...