Reflection Three - Presentations

As a future educator, it is vital that I am capable of catering the learning material to all forms of learners. The use of presentations in the classroom are a great way to ensure that all students are being accommodated for. Google Slides is the most recent presentations platform that I have interacted with. Google Slides is a power point creation platform that allows one to insert images, text, gifs and videos into a presentation. Presentations allow an educator to engage their students while providing learning material integrated into a variety of forms that Google Slides caters for.

I have had very little experience with Google Slides despite its popularity. I have interacted with Google Slides once or twice during my time in high school, but predominately opted for Microsoft Power Point due to more experience with that particular platform. I found Google Slides extremely easy to navigate, I particularly found the customise-able templates for the slides very useful, these are extremely useful for effortlessly making the presentation visually pleasing once the content is imbedded.  



Google Slides also allows more than one person to collaborate on a presentation at once. Google Slides keeps presentation edits and adjustments live and up to date so that all collaborators are able to see recent and current changes. This is also extremely beneficial for educators when marking as they are able to enter the document as if it's their own. Google Slides calls this the 'share' function, as seen below. 


This platform is also a very secure and safe place for students and educators. The original creator of the document has an opportunity to select the general access of the presentation. This creates a safe work environment for students as they are able to dictate the privacy of the documents. Google Slides also allows the presentation to only be shared via email to whom ever the creator sends an invite link to. This effectively ensures the students are influenced by safe and ethical protocols in the classroom.  
 
Google Slides also enables learners to correctly reference and link original creators of templates, images and diagrams. This promotes the idea that Google Slides correlates with the legal and ethical requirements regarding plagiarism. This is essential as it is our job as educators to ensure that these protocols and requirements are in place and correctly followed.

When using Google Slides a future educator, I would incorporate the SAMR model.  An example of this is shown in my disciplinary area of Biology below:

Substitution: Instead of students turning in printed homework to the educator, students could share their presentation links with the educator to check their work at any given time. 

Augmentation: Present a class presentation with the use of transitions, sounds, diagrams, text, images and videos to engage the audience and explain complex concepts rather than the regular speech presentation.

Modification: The use of group work incorporated into the presentations. Allowing the students to modify one another work and build off ideas of other students in their group.

Redefinition: This could be used through peer reflection and editing on a class wide topic. This is achievable through the share option on Google Slides.




Comments

  1. Taylah12 April 2023 at 16:13

    Baylin,

    What a great introduction, it was very persuasive, I wanted to learn more. I really enjoyed reading about your own personal experience with the software, this helps you connect with the readers.

    Improvement wise, you could have added an example presentation you made on Google Slides, to enhance what you said, 'very little experience,' 'extremely easy.' Also, possibly adding more colour, pictures, bolding/underlining words to make your post more eye-catching.

    Overall, I thought it was very well written and showed a good understanding of safe, legal and ethical protocols and how to use the SAMR model with presentations.

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  2. Sophie25 April 2023 at 21:59

    I really enjoyed reading this, and found it very indepth! I also like the way you have embedding images into you work - this makes it much more interesting and easy to understand.

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