Hope that today's three presentations were beneficial to you all!!
Please include any comments your have about:
1) what you have learned today from the presenters
2) what additional things you know about these tools and you can share with the rest
3) your evaluation of each of the presenter (be kind! your turn for presenting is next :)
Zeina
Welcome to EDUC 560 students in Beirut! This Blog will be used to share ideas and findings in this course. Please feel free to comment on any post. This blog will be our "social arena" to connect in and out of class. Keep your discussion flowing!
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ReplyDeleteDate: 11-4-2013
ReplyDeletePresentation 1: Software Tool (SpreadSheet)
Today's presentation was a great way to introduce the topic of tools and how we will be able to prepare our presentation in the tool part.
Spread sheets are great tools in analyzing data and managing numbers.
The spreadsheets are a flexible tool that could be always adjusted. In that presentation I refreshed my memory in how to use excel and add a chart.
Presentation 2:As to the presentation of our colleage Sereen on Powerpoint software.
It was an informative one. She highlighted on the benefits of this software tool. As to the limitation part it was a debatable issue where most of the students believed it's boring, but I belive it's a guide in instruction and it depends on the presentor who is presenting.
What I didn't know before is the part of the six slides with six lines in the concrete example.
Overall, it was an interesting and informative presentation. It showed us how important it is to introduce powerpoint presentation in instruction. Moreover, she enlightended us on the way we make powerpoint slides integrated with movies.
Presentation 3- Presentor: Mohamad Sharab
Graphing Tool
This presentation statred as an interesting one especially that Mohamad possesses a wonderfull and easy going character.
The content of the whole presentation was new for me. It expanded my knowledge in mathmatics and made math formulas and equations appeal easier. The 3D part was the most interesting.
I'd like to thank my friends for sharing their interesting presentations with us.
the presentations were great,
ReplyDeleteeverybody deserves at least a "B"
Excel and Power Point are the basic tools for instruction, and the graphic tool is a more proficient tool.
every teacher should be able to use the Power Point and the Excel, if anyone wants any further information on these two tools, Google it first, and if you can't find what your looking for, I am ready to help.
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Concerning the first presentation, I learned how to use the data in the excel sheet in order to use them in a chart .
ReplyDeleteSirin's presentation about Powerpoint was nice. I will never forget the main points in creating an interesting presentation: no bulletpoints-using inspiring images- 6 by 6 rule- use plain backgrounds- keep it simple!
The third presentation was about a software which we have no background about. The graphing tool is a very interesting one but to me , i find it very complex.
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ReplyDeletePresentation : Spreadsheet
ReplyDeletethe presentation was great I had a review about excel use after long time not using it
It is a good too for managing numbers & flexible tool
Presentation: PowerPoint
It was a clear presentation where she emphasized on the benefits of presenting the lessons using PowerPoint in addition to the limitation of its use
she made it clear by showing us you tube links.
Presentation : Graphing Tool
It is a interesting new subject to me. It is very interesting and it is easy to be used by students especially focusing on the 3D
Mohammed has a very interesting character that attracts any student's attention. he provided a tool that facilitates math which is considered to be one of the fearful subjects.
ReplyDeleteIn Excel presentation it was a refreshing presentation providing the basic steps to facilitate teachers calculations.
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ReplyDelete1) from today's presentations:
ReplyDelete-i've learned and practiced how to make an excell with a chart and much more info about excell, the instructor's presentation was very clear and smooth.
-concerning mohamad's presentation about graphing tools it was interesting but its limited to one feild in education which is math!!!!! so i think it was nice information which i cannot apply in my class room
-about Serin's presentation (power point), it was clear showing us the way that makes our presentation more interesting without making the audience distracted or bored. she could have given us application about this tool.
Today's presentations were very good!!! I enjoyed listening to my friends and i learned that we can plot different kinds of straight lines using graphing calculators easily.
ReplyDeleteSirene's presentation was very clear.
Mohamad's presentation was interesting.
1)about excel: it was good to know how much it saves my tame as a teacher, about powerpoint it was theoritical .i would like to end this session knowing how to use it and not only its benefits.
ReplyDeleteplotters: its a very nice tool and makes math easier realllyyyy...i would like to take it and tell my math colleagues to use it at my school.it was good to take a brief idea about how to use it!
2)i would like to know how to make all equations in excel..i how to construct my own excel spred sheet.and to make additional super things in using power as in the video she showed us. and to apply on all of the three tools.
the three presenters were really good and made us understand there points.
I enjoyed both PowerPoint and graphing tools . Power Point presentation is beneficial for organizing and presenting the information.
ReplyDeleteGraphing calculators is interesting and practical.
I've learned:
ReplyDelete- how to make a chart using excel
- how to make an interesting presentation using powerpoint
- how teaching math can be facilitated using graphing tool which is a very interesting one
- how excel, powerpoint, and graphing tools can be used in education
Both presenters Serene and mhammad presented in a good way. Their presentations were interesting and beneficial to me.
Sirine's presentation: Powerpoint
ReplyDeleteI liked the way she presented her (powerpoint) which was a sample for us. She also showed the benefits of this software and how it is used by teachers which is good. I think Sirine could have showed us the interface of powerpoint and the function of some of the keys as well as other sample presentation. Good job Sirine!!! Keep it up.
Mohamad's Presentation: Graphing tool
It is a very new software for me and I liked it a lot. Though I'm not a Math teacher,I can inform my colleagues in school about this software to use it with their students especially that Mohamamd was very generous in giving us the software.Thank you Mohammad, Good job!!!
Salam Makke
The PowerPoint presentation was great, she enriched our information with new techniques and methods that we were not aware of, although i wasn't there from the beginning, but what i heard was more than enough to draw this judgment, thank you Sirine for the good job.
ReplyDeleteThe Graphing tool presentation presented by Mohammad Sharab was rich in graphics and, models, and designs.All used to facilitate the job of he teacher and to foster the idea and make it clearer to the students. It is nice and completely something new to us, Thank you Mohammad, well done.
The PowerPoint presentation was great, she enriched our information with new techniques and methods that we were not aware of, although i wasn't there from the beginning, but what i heard was more than enough to draw this judgment, thank you Sirine for the good job.
ReplyDeleteThe Graphing tool presentation presented by Mohammad Sharab was rich in graphics and, models, and designs.All used to facilitate the job of he teacher and to foster the idea and make it clearer to the students. It is nice and completely something new to us, Thank you Mohammad, well done.
Thanks all for your great comments! Thanks to Serene and Mohamad for their great work! and mostly thanks for the people who helped fixing some technical problems during the session :)
ReplyDeleteI think that Serene and Mohamad should get credit for being the first ones to present! Now you all have better ideas to make your presentation interactive, resourceful and fun!
Good Luck to all, Zeina
Thank you all for your comments, I wish that you have tried to work on the hands on activity in class but there was some technical problems.
ReplyDeleteThe tool’s presentations today were really great and beneficial.
ReplyDeleteThe Excel tool or spreadsheet was excellent and learned a lot from details didn’t know about before, and I consider it as a time saving technology tool. I liked the most the live practice exercise done in class to learn how to apply the tool and benefit from it as an effective method in teaching and motivating students in classroom. Thank you Dr Zeina it was great.
The PowerPoint presentation done by Sirine was very beneficial and smooth, I was very interested following her, she for sure shed lights on a lot that I’ve never thought it is important and it will really help me in my future PPT for my students. Thank you Sirine for your efforts.
The Graphing tool presentation done by Mohamad was very new to me and never knew about it and will try to apply it at work. I just would like to recommend a practice exercise to be more familiar about it. I really like Mohamad as a teacher; he’s dynamic and full of live. Thank you Mohamad it was great.
Thank you all.
Thank you all for your great and informative comments! I am glad that we have the opportunity to work in a Lab and to have these hands-on activities! :)
ReplyDeleteI sent you by email the youtube and article that Serene sent me about the Power Point Tool, but it is good to have access to it thru the Blog! So here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNG0etmnwuk
http://tojet.net/articles/v10i3/10339.pdf
NB Find time to read the presentation and materials prepared by your colleagues!
Best,
Zeina
The pdf article about PowerPoint presentation is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt's about a study done and the purposes are to investigate pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward
PowerPoint presentations, understand the reasons why they prefer to see PowerPoint presentations in their future classes, and present their suggestions about the ways to improve the quality and usefulness of PowerPoint presentations. The survey contains 12- item Likert scale type questions and two open-ended questions.
The data were collected from 211 pre-service teachers studying at three different departments in one of the large Turkish Universities. The findings of the study indicated that the majority of the participants prefer to see PowerPoint presentations in their future classes for helping them study for the course exams and providing the long term retention of knowledge. More than half of the participants suggest that more visuals, pictures, and videos should be used in PowerPoint presentations.
As conclusion, lots of suggestions were discussed to improve the quality of a PPT will list some of it:
-The quality of PowerPoint presentations depend on mainly the instructor. The PPT should be prepared in terms of not only physical structure but also the content and not to turn it to typical teacher-centered
instruction but to provide student participation and interaction.
- PPT is valuable tool to get student attention during the entire session and not only at the beginning of the instruction. That’s why Visuals including pictures, animations or videos related to content may be very helpful to achieve this goal.
- PPT can be more useful if they are clearly organized and briefly summarize the topic, because longer text and slides can have students lost their attention and get boring.
- PPT should not be used all of the time, but should be supported by a variety of student-centered methods in which students may actively participate such as activities, experiments, group works, case studies, and discussions.
This a brief summary of what I’ve concluded from this interesting article, hope you all find it useful and beneficial.
Thank you.
Excellent post Samiha!! Thank you for your comments! I think that students must read the material provided by the presenters and they should comment on it, exactly as you did!! Very good points about power point.
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presentation no 1:
ReplyDeletesoftware tool(spreadsheet)
this presentation was done by our instructor and i was able to learn how i am going to prepare my presentation and steps i should follow.
while to the spreadsheets, they are a brilliant idea to analyze idea.
Presentation no 2:
Sereen presented the power point software. it is a software tool that we can benefit from in so many domains. she spotted a light on using powerpoint during our lesson.
presentation no 3: Graphing tool
Mohamad Sharab presented this tool and it was completely new for me although i do not love math, i felt so interested while learning about this tool
ReplyDeletepresentation no 1:
software tool(spreadsheet)
I found this presentation full of information on how to use excell. I have been using excel since the the beginning of the school year, and had few knowledge of it. Now, i know what to focus on and how.
It is also a good way for arranging students' grades in class.
Presentation no 2:
Sereen was really enthusiastic in her presentation and delivered the content successfully as well as her hands on activities which we did not have the chance to work on though i would like to work on it sometime.
presentation no 3: Graphing tool
Mohamad Sharab is a type of teacher who brings joy to class. With the use of his program related to Math, the classroom will be very motivating. Also, he showed an example on how to use it and found it really fun.