Presentation Games

Today's assignment involved experimenting with presentation games via the MS PowerPoint application. The requirments for the activity included creation of a short quiz in our content area, based on a template provided by the course instructor. I chose to focus on literature related content, in line with English language and literature CSO's. This application is a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom for informal assessment purposes, and is also a good interactive tool for engaging students in a fun way. The PowerPoint I created can be viewed below, but unfortunately animative features were lost in transitioning the file format from PPT to Google Presentation. I've accounted for this discrepency by adding edited duplicate slides in order to present before & after perspectives for how individual slides in the presentation work. The presentation can also be accessed by clicking here.




TPACK
In using this, and like processes, for classroom instruction, teachers might more readily demonstrate technological competence in teaching within their content areas (TPCK). As in previous assignments, this application and activity can easily be modified to provide an avenue for teachers to model technological skills and methods, and promote modern technological responsibility related to privacy and appropriateness aspects inherent to publicizing material online.

Teaching English requires the integration of current, historic, and developing linguistic and literary materials, events, topics, and movements into the class (CK). The assessment and evaluative applications of the process used in this assignment are multidimensional and relevant to review, testing, and recreational classroom objectives. Products using this application can additionally be established and maintained alongside my lectures, presentations, and student activities (P), in order to pursue content comprehension, convergence, and application, as well as assess student learning outcomes. The development and online accessibility of my assessment tools (T), can greatly assist me in creating, using, and evaluating instructional methods/materials.

Relation to standards
The process of developing internet accessible assessments relates to several ISTE NETS standards, but primarily meets the vision of #2: Design and develop digital age learning experiences by providing students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching..

Integration
As an English Teacher I will be required to teach English language and literature and evaluate my instructional effectiveness at the same time. The use and incorporation of Presentation Games in my instruction will serve to provide critical formative data and inform my instructional methods, which might collaboratively be used to maintain my effectiveness as a teacher.