WEEK 7

"Good writing does not just happen. The best writers spend a great deal of time thinking, planning, rewriting, and editing."

Elizabeth West

This week I learned to make good power point presentations because many years before I though  that  slides with a lot of effects , pictures, or colorful words is ok and whatever people could understand better whatever explanation .But , I was wrong . Firstly, teacher Wilma shown us  a Power Point Presentation (PPT) about teaching listening. Immediatelly,Teacher Wilma explained the presentation was not well made,Most  of us said why??.In my personal opinión I though that that slide was good but the Teacher  said  that  it contained too many effects, lots of words and some non-related graphics with the topic. She explained also that kind of presentations don't show a professional work, because the exceed use of effects and too many words could provoke tiredness .So, she gave us some suggestions :

·         Do not have so many words, only keywords.

·         Add some pictures in order to get the idea in a better way,

·         Do not have a lot of effects in the words, only screens

·         Check the rubric in order to understand  about how to do the presentations in the best possible way.

Thanks teacher, because your example made me notice my mistakes and to correct them on time to be better .For this reason, teacher gave us another chance in order to do ours power point presentaion better. In conclusion, I will apply it from now on to put it on practice  for my  students understand and  getting the main points  easier.

This video shows how to do a grat power point  presentation.

Also, I learned about the importance of teaching writing using the book that teacher provided us  (Teaching English WorldWild),I learned some advice from that book that will really be useful in the future with my students through putting on practice the activities, the process step by step. It was a pair work, and in groups we had to explain about an specific topic for example : Receptive Skills (Listening and  Reading),Productive Skills (Speaking and Writing).

Finally, I will try to explain my students that they have to put their best effort when they do any work.

Links:

http://nadabs.tripod.com/writing/

http://esl.about.com/cs/teachingtechnique/a/a_twrite.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/presentations.aspx