Personal Tale #2- Mamie C. Sherman

For this personal tale, I decided to tell a bit about my great grandmother. While two minutes is a short time to condense a person, she lived a life devoted to family and is a part of my own history! I chose to use Powerpoint this time and was quite pleased with the result, however, it has been hard to figure how to get both the music and audio to play via a direct link to the Powerpoint. I realized that you can save a Powerpoint as an Mp4 and upload to Youtube. This resolved the issues! I found it easier to embed than my last attempt.



 My rubric for the presentation is below:

Prezi Presentation

   I chose to explore Prezi as it was the only presentation application of the three that I have not used. I found that it is probably great for certain kinds of presentations, but not something I am especially fond of, which is more or less what I remembered from a brief intro I had back in undergrad years ago. Prezi lends itself to those who do not enjoy straight lines and like to show interconnection between everything (which for many topics is appropriate).  I also wonder if the paid version is a bit nicer? At any rate, click here to see my investigation and trial usage of Prezi. My presentation is an introduction to subitizing-- aka recognizing quantities without counting!

PSA for Bozeman AM

I recorded a PSA about my class's upcoming Building Study Culmination Event. If I can figure out if Classtag will let me post it, I hope to actually use it! After much struggle, I figured out how to embed the PSA. The visual is a bit funny, but the audio file works!

Smartboard Lesson

Unfortunately, my assignment for this week is more of a what I would do if I had access to one! Best practice for preschool means limited use of screens, but a lesson I would do with students is sorting/classification. This skill aids in being able to make and recognize patterns, which are a large part of both mathematics and reading later on.

I would have three columns, plus a "storage" box on the bottom of the screen. In the "storage" box would be shapes (circle, triangle, square). In the first lesson, children would have to take turns sorting into the three shapes. In the next lesson, the shapes could be different colors and children would need to sort into the colors. Another lesson could involve sorting into sizes. Yet another lesson may be just sorting into upper- and lowercase letters.

Really the possibilities are endless. I love that it is versatile in that it can be a quick large group lesson, small group, or transition activity. Smartboard Exchange had many of these types of activities for free download back when I was teaching kindergarten. On the other hand, none of these would take very much time to prepare, and once done and saved, can be utilized over and over.

Here is a link to a Google Drawing of what it could look like.