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Using Prezi as a lesson starter

May 12, 2009 in Resources in the classroom

Prezi is an amazing online presentation tool that makes creating dynamic presentations very easy. I’ve only found out about this tool and I’m posting a rather quickly created Myst presentation for a lesson introduction tomorrow but I’m very impressed with it’s capabilities.

Some other uses for Prezi in the classroom

Story boards – include children’s own drawings, video work, written ideas
Lesson introductions on any topic if you have the time to create it
Mind mapping ideas with small groups or as a whole class activity
Instructions
Directions
Explanations
Recounts that come alive

There are no doubt many more so feel free to leave your ideas in the comments. Have you used Prezi? What do you think about it?

Myst V – What we have found out so far (Prezi presentation)

Tags: dynamic, Myst, presentation, prezi
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Our Myst V Trailer

May 12, 2009 in Myst

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This is the trailer the children will use in class tomorrow to begin their voice over work. I used animoto to piece it together and I cut up the soundtrack with Audacity to a 30 second fit for the video.

Tags: animoto, audacity, Myst, resource
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Myst V – Day 3

May 12, 2009 in Myst

The excitement and anticipation that this game has brought to my class is truly an inspiration. Before we had even gotten into the classroom children were asking me when we were going to do Literacy. It’s become their favourite subject with no exceptions.

I set up two chairs for hot seats and asked the class to recap on yesterday’s events. I use hot seats in the way wrestlers use their partners – children can tag others to get into the seat to talk and since we started using Myst everyone wants to talk. It’s a busy 5 minutes and the conversation is wonderful; I will have to record one session for you to listen to so you can experience the intensity of discussion.

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