🚨 Breaking News 🚨 Summarizing in Sound Bites with Slides

In the 24-hour news cycle, complex ideas are often distilled down into brief snippets. We’ll explore how students can use Google Slides to demonstrate their understanding of concepts in a digital and visual way. This session will focus on unpacking some simple to use tools and features in Slides, as well as, projects, assessment or activities to use in your classroom.

Once you know the basics, you can tap into a powerful set of easy to use creative tools and make your own graphics, posters, infographics or #booksnaps.

> Introduce & Reacquaint: Awesome Tools and Skills

> Highlight Strategies: Show What You Know & Critical Thinking

> Digital Citizenship: Learning in Context

Summarizing in Sound Bites - ISTE

Breaking News Template: Click here

Summarizing in Sound Bites

"Extended practice in creating news headlines will help students develop a paraphrasing mindset. Although the actual headline may be a helpful mnemonic for long-term retention, the creation of a line to accurately and completely portray the concepts, events, or people is what results in solid learning. Students critiquing each other’s headlines in light of their learning will also help them retain information."

-Rick Wormeli (Summarization in any Subject)


SWBST Method - Reporting Live

Somebody… (Who is the main character?)

Wanted… (What are they trying to achieve?)

But…. (What stands in their way? What conflict or obstacle must be overcome?)

So…. (How did the character solve the problem?)

Then… (How was the story resolved?)

Share what you made! Tweet out a sound bite summary (and image) of your learning on Twitter. Tag it with #edtechteam and @benjaminfriesen