Back to School Night Slide

There are a lot of benefits to making a presentation and also presenting it to students/parents or to any kind of audience. Both sides, the teacher and the audience, benefit because for the teacher it is a very focused task, neat, orienting etc. and for the audience is very informational, focusing and easy to follow. However, as we watched it on the video, teachers cannot just throw everything in a presentation and just read it off there. The presentation is beneficial only if you use it as an outline to orient you about the main points of your discussion. Then you can insert images, quotes etc. so it can be more illustrative. I had a great time doing this assignment because it really got me thinking in order. I believe the audience will sense the same things because everything is put in such a way that it provides information very slowly and clearly. Unlike podcasts, which might not work for visual topics, google doc presentations are very visual.

Week 7 Podcast

The podcast assignment was a fun and challenging one at the same time. I succeeded to finish it in a very short time because of two reasons. One is because I chose to teach a lesson that I have taught hundreds of times to my students an the second one is because I have garageband, so it was really easy to combine the audio recording with my playing.

I did a few rehearsals of my lesson and also a few recordings. After I finished, I chose the best one, uploaded and published it.

My lesson is about recognizing the quality of the chords (major/minor.) I followed 4 simple steps to make it clear to  my students. 

1- Tell them what we are going to learn

2- Play examples of different chords

3- Let them know where to focus

4- Explained the theory and told them to practice.

Podcasting is a very effective method of teaching. It allows you to record your own voice unlike written messages such as emails, texts, or notes that cannot provide lively qualities. I believe by listening to a podcasts students will learn easier than via notes since they can listen to you and understand much more by an explaining voice than just imaginary images in their minds.

Take a listen at my podcast.... Thank you!