After that, we had five class periods before the Prezi was due. In each class, we spent time working on the Prezi and answering questions. We also used a peer review focused on the format, as well as a rubric to perform peer review. A common theme throughout the sections, which was no different from working on any other paper, was that those who put effort and thought into their Prezis were immediately recognized by their peer reviewers. However, I also noticed that those who were struggling a bit would make comments about how they could incorporate the “cool stuff”…
Author: Paulina Bounds
We began the week with the last peer review on a draft written in a word document. This one was rather extensive to make sure that there was a thesis, evidence, and explanations, so it took most of the class. However, at the end we talked about the crucial role of the template that they choose. We talked about the visual metaphors that they are able to create through their choice of the templates, and how that can and should reinforce what the main point of their paper is. This way, they got some ideas for their homework, which was…
This week was focused equally between Prezi exercises and peer reviews of paper drafts. So far, my approach is to allow them to compose the paper in a document first and then put the text into Prezi. However, there is still a question in my head whether this is the approach that I will keep in the future. Any suggestions? In the first class of the week, I did a tutorial on Prezi. We were in a computer lab, so they signed up for Prezi, and I showed them the functionality of it. All groups were equally excited to play…
As the students’ anticipation for this project came to a boiling point, we started off on a journey that took them through a multimodal world that they had not seen yet….Well, it wasn’t that poetic, but most of the students were excited to start the last project of the semester and finally play with Prezi, which they had seen throughout the semester. The goal for this paper was to take an analytic view on the music artist they chose through research they performed (interview, scholarly sources, and non-scholarly sources). First, we had to work on the structure/ideas for the paper.…