I've been lucky enough to be asked by Dughall McCormick to present a break out session with him at this conference - click here to see more details - and have decided to blog about what I am planning to present to help me to gather my thoughts!
It's the first time I will have ever presented at a conference and I feel quite excited by the whole thing....what do I wear? ;-) I also feel quite honoured to have a little presentation spot at a conference in which the wonderful Tim Rylands will give the keynote presentation....I'm very excited at the thought of meeting Tim!
After a quick chat with Dugh we've decided to present about using a Wii in the classroom as a teaching tool. My part will be to talk through the following:
My aim with this presentation is to encourage others who have maybe never even thought about using a Wii as a teaching tool to have a go in their classrooms. We're going to make a series of short films to show the Wii being used in the classroom and will concentrate on the use of the African Safari Wii game. As we're about to start the Romans in Year 3, I also plan on making a short film about my use of the Horrible Histories(Romans) - Wii game. We also plan on demonstrating the games and how to play them....maybe get a few volunteers to have go....can we do that at a conference? :-)
It's the first time I will have ever presented at a conference and I feel quite excited by the whole thing....what do I wear? ;-) I also feel quite honoured to have a little presentation spot at a conference in which the wonderful Tim Rylands will give the keynote presentation....I'm very excited at the thought of meeting Tim!
After a quick chat with Dugh we've decided to present about using a Wii in the classroom as a teaching tool. My part will be to talk through the following:
- how I found out about Wii's being used as a teaching tool
- how I feel about Wii's in general
- my - slightly inaccurate - prior assumptions about children and Wii's
- why I decided to try it in Nabby3 - my class
- what I was hoping to achieve by using a Wii as a teaching tool
- how I planned it into my lessons
- how the project actually worked and what we did
- what was actually achieved by my class
- real life & simulated life
- my thoughts since this project and how it will be better next time..
- and my thoughts for future use of the Wii in my class
My aim with this presentation is to encourage others who have maybe never even thought about using a Wii as a teaching tool to have a go in their classrooms. We're going to make a series of short films to show the Wii being used in the classroom and will concentrate on the use of the African Safari Wii game. As we're about to start the Romans in Year 3, I also plan on making a short film about my use of the Horrible Histories(Romans) - Wii game. We also plan on demonstrating the games and how to play them....maybe get a few volunteers to have go....can we do that at a conference? :-)
This sounds great, why am I doing another breakout at the same time?
Hi, definitely have hands on activity its more fun and will reinforce what you say the benefits are.
I presented claymation at a teachers conference here in NZ and took along students to help groups of teachers make their own claymation. It was very beneficial to the students and the teachers.
This sounds great, I will see you at bMoble. I hope you can both make the teachmeet too!