{"id":446,"date":"2012-04-22T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=446"},"modified":"2012-04-22T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:43:05","slug":"the-prezi-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"The Prezi Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-450\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My calendar was pretty full but the teacher was strategic. She sent me an email invitation with an embedded video of her three students inviting me to their party. There I was, face-to-face with three girls. It was pretty hard to look them in the eye and think of saying no. I was also curious to find out what these students thought of using prezi as a tool to demonstrate their learning.\u00a0 Thus, this past week I ended up in the library at Green Timbers Elementary with Mrs. Thiessen\u2019s grade 3 class.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40033702?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a member of district staff, it was actually a bit of treat to be back in a school setting and see the excited faces and keen enthusiasm of these students. (Yes, sometimes I really miss being a principal). And\u00a0Mrs. Thiessen knows how to organize a party. There was finger food, cake, punch and medals for all of the students at the end of the presentation. She made sure she had invited special guests so the students had an authentic audience as well.\u00a0\u00a0You can watch a video of her party <a href=\"http:\/\/mrstsgrade3sclassblog.blogspot.ca\/ \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There were many things that impressed me about the party; here are a few observations:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1. The students designed their own rubric to assess their learning.<\/span><\/em> The rubric included the things that these students felt were important. They wanted to make sure that: they stayed on topic, they included captions, the information reflected their learning, they used appropriate grammar and punctuation and that they demonstrated the ability to embed videos and pictures in their presentation. Finally, they tried to add some \u201ccool factor\u201d for a special effect. By helping design the rubric, the students were owning their learning.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">2. The students had learned a new tool.<\/span><\/em> I have never made a prezi and I could see that they clearly had a few things to teach me. \u00a0I was also amazed at their versatility using prezi for being in grade 3. Two of the invited guests also have children in grade 3. We noted that our own children have only had the opportunity to use computers in their schools to do typing and math <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/mathgames\/mathman\/mathman.htm\" target=\"_blank\">games<\/a>. It was nice to see these students using technology <em>creatively<\/em> to support their learning.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3. This tool gave students the opportunity to represent their learning in a variety of ways.<\/span><\/em> Each presentation was different and you could not tell who was learning disabled, gifted or simply a struggling learner.\u00a0 As one student shared:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prezi-pictures-in-brain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"Prezi pictures in brain\" src=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prezi-pictures-in-brain-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prezi-pictures-in-brain-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prezi-pictures-in-brain.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">4. The students were deeply engaged in their learning.<\/span><\/em> At the end of each of their presentations they reflected on their experience and what they thought about learning in this fashion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mikayla-Squared-Prezi-Final-Reflection.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-448 aligncenter\" title=\"Mikayla Squared Prezi Final Reflection\" src=\"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mikayla-Squared-Prezi-Final-Reflection-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <em>Integrated Media Literacy Project<\/em> was a joint initiative with the Education Department of Vancouver\u2019s <em>Pacific Cinematheque<\/em>. \u00a0They are a non-profit charitable organization that focuses on teaching the creative, critical and pedagogical aspects of digital media production, media literacy and film education.\u00a0 They provided a trained facilitator, Adelle Cabral,\u00a0to help the students learn about Web 2.0 tools. The students chose prezi as the tool they most wanted to investigate.\u00a0The students, the teacher,\u00a0the parents, and guests enjoyed the opportunity to see the students present their learning. And as one guest described it, &#8220;Talk about personalized localized learning. Now these students\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0know where they live\u2026on\u00a0<em>this planet<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My calendar was pretty full but the teacher was strategic. She sent me an email invitation with an embedded video of her three students inviting me to their party. There I was, face-to-face with three girls. It was pretty hard to look them in the eye and think of saying no. 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