It has been a hectic week so far but now that the wife's surgery is over and all turned out OK I'm looking forward to things getting back to some normalcy and getting some time to work on not only this weeks assignments but a couple that I was not able to get to last week. I can't wait to get caught back up and back on task because I can't stand being behind in anything.
With that being said, I took a little time to look at the animoto site and I have to say I love the possibilities. I'm always looking for ways to pimp my classes and my softball program and I see great things ahead for the use of this program. I think this will allow me to put together an awesome highlight video of both my classes and my softball program and link them to our websites. If the students see that I will highlight their work in an intriguing way I think they will be way more apt to take my classes. In addition, my girls have accomplished so much in our program and work so hard that I think it will be a nice treat for them to get to view some of their highlights in a fun fashion.
I also loved the pecha kucha video as this is something I really need to work on in my own presentations. I really need to limit my slides and the amount of intormation on each slide and I hope in delving deaper into this site I will improve my own presentations. It was also nice to finally learn how to accurately pronounce this name but I too have to agree with one of the responses on the video that this video truly does demonstrate just how important it is to have your slides match what you are talking about. If your timing is off it throws everything out of whack and makes what ever you wanted to get across become secondary because it totally throws the veiwer out of kilter.
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Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI really liked animoto as well. I think your idea to highlight your teams accomplishments is a great idea. Many people do this in the form of a slideshow presentation, but the animoto video is much more dynamic.
Ryan,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was still a member of the coaching ranks, I had my team members each develop a highlight video using Animoto. We then viewed all the videos and voted on which one we liked the best. The video was shown at the awards banquet and recognition was given to the creator. I think it was a great exercise for my team to reflect upon what they thought was important throughout the season, and it also provided the parents a professionally presented recap of the season. There is no question that with the success of your teams, an Animoto video might really highlight your teams accomplishments, plus the videos can be used to show future players some of the memories that they will be able to build in your program.
The pecha kucha is an interesting idea in that it forces you to really be sharp with your information. You don't have time to flounder around hoping to find the right words. The presenter must really know the material, and find the most efficient way to fit the information in the structured format. I look forward to giving this presentation style a whirl this year, and I will be interested to see the reaction of my students. :)
Pecha kucha.... great idea but hard to implement. I think that this is a great way to conduct presentations because it forces them to flow rather that getting stuck in dead zones. The problem is that this pace might be too fast for some students... especially some special ed. students.
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