Thlog

Thlog

While this week’s class was very different, it was still very valuable in terms of what I learned. I really enjoyed seeing other group presentations because it is always interesting to see how different people have different ways of presenting ideas. Some groups were very creative and smart, which made the information they were trying to teach very memorable. I really like how the Zack Attackers decided to incorporate our daily journals into their presentation, telling us to type out our journal questions for “lesson plan 9.1.” While they weren’t 100% serious about it, it was funny and made me want to interact with the presentation more. I noticed that most groups included a Youtube video to assist with their presentation. I could tell the group members put in considerable thought and effort into choosing the videos because the videos were very engaging and unique. They were also a good amount of time—not too long nor too short. Adding a video in the presentations was a good way of switching up the powerpoint presentation. I am emphasizing the use of videos in other group’s presentations because my group did not show a video. We linked a video as reference, but I feel like if we incorporated the video into the presentation, it would have created a more engaging effect. We did have Starbursts to encourage our peers to participate in our questions though. Overall, I think every group did an excellent job, and while many of the topics were already familiar to me, the interaction with the groups and examples that were provided helped refresh my memory and cleared up any little bits of confusion I may have previously had.