parallel learning and video blogging (my first prezi mash-up)
Two workshop prezis from JALTCALL 2010 at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, May 29th – 30th 2010.
Parallel Learning: How online teacher development informs classroom practice
Video blogging and Podcasting: Interviews with English Language Teaching Professionals
As you can imagine, there is a fair bit of overlap between the two sessions, so I chose to use the ‘flavour of the month’ presentation tool to make one big slide with two different pathways. It was really fun mapping it out… I am not sure if it helps me think differently, in a less linear fashion, or if it just panders to the mind’s natural inclination towards multiplicity. But this is my first paper run through….
Anyway, I am not sure whether it is such a bad thing to have ones thoughts marshalled into straight lines by PowerPoint or Keynote. Something about Prezi does scream ‘Big Fat Gimmick!’, but let’s enjoy the whizz bang fireworks while they last.
Because I hate decontextualised slides so much (one of the greatest dangers to academic discourse today, I’ll venture, is the proliferation of mute online slideshows, stripped of the only thing which gives them a life) I have recorded a run through with commentary so you know what all the pictures mean. It’s forty minutes condensed into twenty, so it’s both too long to watch online and not long enough to make any sense. Apologies for the mumble, everyone else is asleep and I really ought to be myself.
Parallel Learning: How online teacher development informs classroom practice from darren elliott on Vimeo.
I made this using iShowU HD, which works very nicely. Screentoaster also seems good, but a bit more obtrusive.
If you were at either of the sessions in Kyoto, thanks! Questions or comments are very welcome.
