poster presentations non powerpoint
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Alternative student presentation methods.TRANSCRIPT
POWERPOINT IS JUST THE STARTSCOTT TURNER
DIVISION OF COMPUTING, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON,NORTHAMPTON NN2 6JD
The start of this mini-project came from two directions. The first watching student
presentations, finding what was being presented was very similar, and PowerPoint
is a useful tool but what else could students’ use?
The second influence was the developing ideas from Digital Storytelling (for
example University of Gloucestershire, 2009) and Machinima.
In two assessment in first-year modules the students were allowed to use
PowerPoint and many did, but they were also made aware of other tools they could
use such as Microsoft’s PhotoStory3 and MovieMaker and several adopted those.
Students were not penalised for using PowerPoint.
Assessment 1: Describing number representation to a 15-year. Several of the
students decided to present this in a movie form.
4Initial Reflection
From a tutor point of view it was much more interesting to watch the presentation, but the
variety makes it slightly more challenging to mark., but you can still mark it based on the
content presented and how effective the content was communicated. Based on the
amount of work produced, the students seemed to engage with the task. Those that did
use PowerPoint also seemed to included more video within their presentations. For the
students it allowed some individuality in how they presented their work.
It was also interesting that though voice-over was available in all the methods used, very
few groups actually used it. Some of the students have posted their work on YouTube.
ReferenceUniversity of Gloucestershire (2009) Pathfinder [online] http://resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/projects/pathfinder/index.cfm
Assessment 2: In a module concerned with problem-solving and they had to discuss how they
solved the problem of controlling a robot for a set task. The dynamic and visual nature meant
that many include video of the robot moving, but others took it further and the whole
presentation as a movie.
Please watch the video accompanying the presentation to see examples of these and other students ‘work.
Figure 2: Alternative Animation
Figure 1:Machinima Examples
Figure 3:Problem Solving Example