Weekly Post - Google Presentation

This week we learned about Google Presentation. Our assignment is to collaboratively create a presentation of our group's 10 classroom rules without physically meeting.

Google Presentation, what a wonderful thing. It is especially great for me because so many of my assignments for other classes include presentations. This is great for group projects because everyone can have a copy of the file and work on it when they choose. Bonus: it's automatically updates the file for the rest of the group - no emailing files back and forth. Google, you are amazing.

I think this will come in handy for my other class presentations and throughout my future education. This will be much, much easier to work on a project together without having to actually get together. That is probably the hardest parts about group projects is coordinating schedules. Google Presentation offers an online way to work on the project together without actually having to be together, which makes group project 10 times more convenient.

Since I want to teach preschoolers, I don't plan on doing too many presentations, but it would be cool to make a slideshow of pictures from the class. It would be fun to have a presentation covering each theme and the activities we did during the week to show the class and reflect on. You could also email or post it/link it to your blog it to the parents so they could see what we do in class and so they could see all the fun pictures.

Presentation programs like Power Point and Google Presentation are a great way to assemble a digital assessment portfolio for a child, especially if you're collaborating with other teachers. Assessment is very important in early childhood education, just like the grade system is in higher levels or schooling. By using Google Presentation you could always have your assessment presentations available to you whether at home or at a school because they're online.

Video Post

I loved this guy! So charismatic, so entertaining -- had me locked in the whole time. This kid exudes confidence, which is something I kind of lack. I like his spunk and his spirit. This kid knows where he's going in life and knows how to get there--he even has a plan b, which I think is very important. He realizes how important an education is to reach his goals, which is sometimes rare in teenagers.