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Presentations
Microsoft Powerpoint, Google Slides and Apache OpenOffice Impress all create presentations that are supposedly openable by each other. The meeting in the middle just does not quite happen. A significant amount of formatting is lost in any translation from one app to another. Other limitations include:
Slides auto forwards from slide to slide in presentation mode and requires a weird workaround.
Powerpoint when uploaded to a google drive does not open on the drive exactly the same, but if you download it, the file works fine.
Powerpoint is expensive, Slides belongs to the Google Suite which a school may not permit, and Impress is openware which your school computer system may not allow you to download.
Impress auto-advances, but this can be overridden by the action buttons and the links.
Using Slides
Using Slides
Choose a slide with the word “title” in it so that they are easy to refer to when the slide changes happen - you can always change the font size from the automatic title size.
Clicking on random areas of the slide will cause it to advance anyway. Those areas of the slide need to be hyperlinked back to the slide they are on.
You can duplicate slides, and it will retain the “hyperlink back” information
For students to share with other students, they need to “publish to the web” under “file”. It will produce a link that can then be shared so students can do the story and see it in presentation mode without seeing all the slides in the left column
The ControlAltAchieve resource pictured above teaches you how to insert links into Slides.
This resource suggests a way to create a template students can use so the auto-advance is avoided.
Using PowerPoint
Using PowerPoint
Choose a slide with the word “title” in it so that they are easy to refer to when the slide changes happen - you can always change the font size from the automatic title size.
Set up a template slide with next, back and some slide number pre-made action buttons. These action buttons can be customized for shape and colour, as long as it is the SHAPE that was selected as the action item instead of the text.
Description of how to create action buttons
Video on how to create action buttons
Using Impress
Using Impress
Choose a slide with the word “title” in it so that they are easy to refer to when the slide changes happen - you can always change the font size from the automatic title size.
Each action button needs to be individually customized as there is no setting to use the previous slide.
Similarly to Slides, it automatically advances when clicking on the slide, but if you click on the link or the back slide, it is automatically set to override the autoadvance.
Less flashy to use than PowerPoint or Slides, but most of the tutorials for Ppt or Slides are transferable
The action buttons are clunky to set up as they require 9 clicks to input links.
Elementary and Middle School Story Writing
Elementary and Middle School Story Writing
Writing stories happens all across the curriculum. Whether based in fact or fiction, the inquiry and decision-making processes used when making a CYOA are transdisciplinary. Below is a project aimed at mid-elementary, with some teacher assistance.
Grade 8-10 Social Distancing Inquiry
Grade 8-10 Social Distancing Inquiry
We were required to read Buchanan’s "Wicked Problems in Design Thinking". Unfortunately, the Social Distancing inquiry project is a wicked problem; the real-life component does not really have a solution as the data may not be accurate due to a number of considerations. Also, at the time of creation, our understanding of the coronavirus that is requiring the social/physical distancing is incomplete. Added to that, new models and new data are being released daily. Maybe that will make the final guided inquiry problem interesting for students to consider after they look at the basic math they need to apply. Hopefully, because it is wicked, it will also be a lasting and useful math exercise. No matter when students work on this problem, they will need to develop good Research and Information Literacy skills, according to the BC Digital Literacies Framework, to guide their final project. Rheingold's article on Crap Detection may also be a good read for older students if you have access to it, but this blog post of Rheingold's is very similar.
The Social Distancing Inquiry is meant for Grades 8-10, but can be further edited to suit Grade 7 or 11 and possibly 12, especially when using it as an assessment. Depending on what your students already know about graphing and exponents, you may need to add some information. After the bright green slides, an International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) Criterion B assessment (looking at generalizing a pattern from the data) can be inserted. The final guided/free inquiry can be a Criterion C/D assessment (Communication and Applying Mathematics in Real-Life Situations). The PowerPoint version was created first and then converted. All three versions of this single inquiry have been edited to work properly in their chosen format. Gifs were created in a combination of Google Draw and EZGif.
Copy of Social Distancing PPT.pptxSocial Distancing Powerpoint
Social Distancing Powerpoint
Download and work through in presentation mode.
Copy of Social Distancing.odpSocial Distancing Impress
Social Distancing Impress
Download and work through in presentation mode.
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