This past weekend was my first presentation (other than at school, of course). I was a presenter at the 37th annual Pennsylvania State Librarian's Association Conference.
I'm happy with how the presentation went. There are a few things that I wish I would have done differently in hindsight. I wish I would have taken 5 minutes at the beginning of the presentation to make sure everyone in the audience was able to get to the online portion of my presentation. A few people were having trouble finding the link on the conference wiki. I also wish I would have scheduled about 5 minutes between each application I was talking about to answer a few questions. Oh well, next time I'll try to remember to do those things. Live and learn:)
I began with a short presentation embedded below:
At the end of the presentation, I linked out to a poll by Poll Everywhere. I wanted to get an idea of where everyone in the group was at in terms of using applications like glogster, wordle, audacity, etc.
Then I launched into the content of my presentation using a LiveBinder I created. I absolutely LOVE LiveBinders for presentations because your presentation then becomes a resource binder for those in the audience. My session focused on creating multi-media book projects. I talked to teacher librarians about how to make book projects 2.0-style and allow students to learn important 21st century skills - creative commons, visual literacy, communication, etc.
It is amazing how a presentation that can take hours upon hours to create and organize, is over in 1 hour and 15 minutes. I wanted more time, but the time I did have was great and the participants were wonderful!
Number 1 photo used under Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/49968232@N00/2115400318/.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Newbie Presenter
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books,
english,
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presentations,
professionaldevelopment,
project,
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2 comments:
Wow, for a beginner presenter you rock! I learned so much from your LiveBinder slides and I can only imagine how much more wonderful seeing you present live would have been. Thanks for sharing!
Lesley
Thanks, Mrs.E, I'm glad you enjoyed the LiveBinder. It is one of my new favorite tools:)
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