On Friday 11th September, we were asked to present our findings on websites regarding e-safety and how good they were as a resource to teaching e-safety to Key Stages 1&2 and 3&4. Each member of the class analysed a different site. We have been asked to reflect on what we thought was poor about some of the presentations (particularly presenting style) and what we thought worked. I had already planned to do this and paid particular attention to the presenting styles.
Firstly, I need to reflect on my own, personal presentation and what improvements I could make;
The website that I had to analyse was: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/cybercafe
This was for Key Stage 2 and was actually pretty good as a resource for children to use and a decent resource to know with a handy glossary which put complex terms into easy to use terminology for the younger generation. Our brief was a 2 minute presentation and this is what I tried to stick to. From watching prior presentations, it was clear that very few people stuck to the 2 minute brief.
Onto my critical analysis of myself.
- I felt that I tried too hard to stick to 2 minutes but in my rush, I ended up coming across poorly and unprepared. If I was to stick to the brief, I should of been more succinct and the 2 minute rule is no excuse to my poor performance.
- I tried to look around at several pupils but kept referring back to the board and then aimlessly looking around rather than a steady gaze at 3 or 4 seperate pupils around the room.
- I was far too static and remained at either side of the board depending on whether I was talking or demonstrating.
- My speech wasn't clear enough
- I didn't really give a point to the presentation such as the one I describe in this blog.
Things I did well;
- I was pleased that I had some interaction with the audience in getting them to shout out what may be a good answer to the quiz on the site.
- It was reasonably short.
Ideas if I were to repeat the identical presentation;
- I think I should have got a pupil (or a team-mate) to enter the information into the quiz as I wandered around the room asking for input to the quiz or simply asking the other students for their input to the quiz.
- Take more time in demo-ing the site and specific areas.
- Speak more clearly
- Face the audience much more.
I will now critique the other presentations. Obviously, I will name no names;
- One presentation in particular had several grammatical and spelling mistakes. Nearly unforgivable!
- Some of the students were barely audible in parts of the presentation.
- Some presentations went on for far too long. In a classroom environment, we would need to stick much more closely to the time we would allocate/be allocated on our lesson plans?
- Poor design in one of the presentations with unnecessary effects on the slides. Simple slides work a whole lot better.
- Some people focused for too long on the web design rather than content, and, although it is important, it doesn't need to be the sole focus.
- When attempting to engage the audience or concentrate on people, some students focused solely on the teacher.
- Some students very rarely looked away from the screen.
- H
