Death by Power Point

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13 Alternatives to Using Bullet Points in Presentations from Melissa Milloway, MSIT

2014 Students "Speak Up" on Their Digital Desires and Use

Respond to the survey image below:

Which results surprise you?

What are implications for education?

http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU14_Flyer_StudentTop10_Print.pdf

Good Citizenship Awards

Community Builders:

• Becca

"I always see Becca going above and beyond online. She always tweets, comments on blog posts and is usually the first to post hers every week."

• Julia 

"She frequently tweets to the class hashtag & often responds to others while on Twitter."

Tech Helpers:

• Karissa

"Whenever I have have a question about an assignment, I'll DM Karissa on our class twitter and she always is willing to help. When I missed part of class that one week she was able to give me clear instruction on what to do and helped me tremendously."

• Emily 

"Emily always helps me with my assignments when I am confused and she shows me the proper techniques to complete the assignment. Emily also has a very good attitude when she comes to class and always comments on my blog posts to give me more constructive criticism.On my blog titled "1 The Importance of Technology", Emily commented on my blog talking about my comparative skills within my blog, which I have continuously used in other blog posts."

PISA - International Student Assessment

PISA is a well-respected international study of 15 year olds across the globe on achievement, demographics, and more recently, computer use.  It is conducted every three years.  What do you think about this infographic based on the 2012 results?

Feedback on Newsletter Assignment

Here are your comments from the newsletter assignment survey.  It seems you all enjoyed viewing each other's creativity.  Our next "Best in Show" viewing will be website design.  Don't worry, no coding needed.  Many of the "likes" below will apply in the web environment.

I loved the nautical theme and how the pictures and text correlated with kindergarten very well.

The design, detail and effort!

i loved the border and how everything tied back to the whale theme. it was creative and well executed

 I really liked all the themes and bright colors on everyone's newsletter! I loved seeing how creative everyone got!

Colorful, creativity, easy to read, neat

I enjoyed the files with fonts that didn't clash, many students put too many fonts all together. I also looked for color, picture quality, clipart & general aesthetic.

Amazing graphic design. I love how intricate and well planned out it is. Great Job! 

This was a very good newsletter. I could tell she worked really hard on it and if I was a parent, I would love to receive a newsletter as elaborate and put together as this.

Colorful photos, borders, not super cluttered but well filled up. Everything has a purpose, not just put on to fill space.

The graphic design is very detailed

A lot of people got very creative with their borders and clip art that made their letters more fun to read.

 Most newsletters were colorful and attention-grabbing.

I liked all the organization and the different stories that people came up with to put on their newsletter.

I liked the different graphics people were able to put onto their newsletters, and how people were able to incorporate so many different designs into them.

I really liked the colors some of them used they really popped.

I liked the variety of spelling lists as well as the color coordination and the use of clip art.