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3.2 - Creating

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Intro

'Presenting' is the second aspect of 3.2 'Creating'. It is all about combining text, images and videos to help you present on a topic.

Most pupils have some understanding of presenting software such as PowerPoint, but to truly teach the subject you need to emphasise the variety and range of the technology.

In Year 6 they create presentations that are not linear. People may jump from one slide to another and back again.

Framework

3.2 - Creating

  • use a range of software to produce and refine multimedia components in one or more languages.
  • select and combine a range of text, image, sound, animation and video to produce an outcome for a selected purpose; use software tools to enhance the outcomes for specific audiences.

 

Skill by Skill

  • Choose their own presenting software for a task, explaining reasons for the choice.
  • Develop their own style, selecting colours and fonts that reflect the topic and audience.
  • Create a presentation using more than one device, e.g. a tablet to capture images and laptop to create the presentation.
  • Plan a flow diagram showing how a user navigates through a presentation with multiple possibilities.
  • Create a presentation which has multiple avenues for navigation, e.g. a multiple choice quiz.
  • Apply a transition to slides.
  • Use IT equipment to record own performance and peer/self-assess.

(EAS ICT Skills Framework)

Vocabulary

link     structure     linear

Activity 1

Adventure Story

Adventure Presentation

Your pupils should, by now, have considerable experience in creating presentations using one or two software (e.g. PowerPoint, Google Slides). It's likely that they will also be relatively comfortable with collaboration tools within those presentation software. This activity is mainly focused on adding one major new Presenting skill to their repertoire, but it's also a great opportunity to practice their Collaboration.

Flow Chart Plan

Prepare:

  • This activity follows on from the presentation activities in Years 3-5. If your pupils weren't taught those activities in previous years, you may want to look at those first.
  • Watch the video below for a guide to linking in Slides.
  • Write your own multi-choice adventure story.
Transitions, Animations + Links in Google Slides

Copy link to share with pupils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcgdSscghs

Share Video

Activity Tasks:

  1. Go through your adventure story with the class, letting them choose the paths to take. Repeat a couple of time so that they can see how making different choices changes the story. (Even better, find a real 'Choose your own Adventure' book and read it with the pupils over a period of time before starting this activity).
  2. Explain that the pupils, in pairs or small groups, will be writing their own short adventure stories.
  3. In groups, discuss what will happen in their story. They will start from the same first slide as your model, and then amend the story as they wish.
  4. Each story should let the reader make at least two choices. You're therefore likely to need at least 7 slides. Show pupils how to make a flowchart showing the different options. (See example above).
  5. Pupils create their own flowchart in groups (This is likely to take a lesson).
  6. Show pupils how you created the links from one slide to another. (Create a textbox with the choice, then click the link in the toolbar and select the slide you want to go to).
  7. Groups write their own stories. Each pupil in a group should focus on a different slide using collaborative software (Google Docs or Office 365).
  8. After they finish writing their story and creating the links, let them add images to each slide. Show them how to mask images to change their shape, (usually by clicking on crop and then choosing a shape).
  9. Make sure each group gets to present their story, with the rest of the class making the choices.

Remember

  • This activity will take a few lessons. Don't rush it.

Success Criteria

  • I can create a flow chart to show the paths readers can take through my presentations.
  • I can create a presentation with multiple possible navigation paths.
  • I can apply masks to change the shapes of my images.

Other Framework Elements

1.3 - Digital Rights

You can have a discussion about copyright of images online and how we should give credit.

2.2 - Collaboration

Done correctly, this activity is full of collaboration skills as they use Office 365 or Google Slides.

2.3 Storing and Sharing

You should share your first slide with one member of the group, who can then share it with his collaborators.

3.1 Planning, Sourcing and Searching

Discuss which keywords to use when searching online for images.

3.3 Evaluating and Improving

Peer-evaluation in looking over their group members slides and giving comments. Watching themselves on video and self-assessing. 

Vocabulary

collaborate     link     path     flow chart

Variation Ideas

Instead of an adventure story, your pupils could create a quiz. If the reader clicks on the correct answer, he moves on to the next question. If he clicks on the wrong answer, he is taken to the'Game Over' page. This is a simplified version of the activity and would take considerably less time.

Points to Note

Remember, there is more to this year's use of presentation skills than this one activity. Your pupils should, by now, be confident in their use of presentation software and therefore utilising them regularly in their lessons.

Except for the above activity, your focus can be on using presentation technology to further the learning across other subjects, without having to focus on learning brand new technology skills.