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Voc Talk Café by Après-cours – Digital Open Sandbox
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Voc Talk Café by Après-cours – Digital Open Sandbox
January 29, 2024
Digital Open Sandbox: What if the students made the Powerpoint?
Hello everyone!
Thanks for coming to the Voc Talk Café and if you weren’t able to make it, no worries! You can check out the recording, discussion notes and resources on the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours website page here, and read the session summary below!
Summary
The Digital Open Sandbox (DOS – get it? ms dos? wee geek joke!) is a new segment from the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours where we explore software and how to use it with pedagogical intent. We do this in a virtual session where the participants are presented with a template and then create their own teaching tool with the support of a RÉCIT VT consultant. In this segment, we explored how students can be more involved in the learning by creating the presentation, instead of just listening to the presentation the teacher made. Through the cloud-based Microsoft Powerpoint software, a teacher can get the students to create a slide deck about the topic. There are a few steps in the process to set up, facilitate and review the activity, and a few things to keep in mind. We discussed how you can get students to include different media, sites and even interactive elements! We also discussed how the point is not to create an elaborate slides deck with lots of design elements, but rather to keep it simple so the students focus on what they need to learn. It is also important to keep in mind how much learning they are being asked to do and break it up into parts.
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Do you have an idea for a Voc Talk Café discussion topic that you would like to discuss with your fellow teachers across the province? Let us know! We can help you set it up! Thanks to all who participated in discussing this very interesting subject, and I look forward to the next session!
👩🍳📱 Robin
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April 29, 2024
Digital Open Sandbox: Handout Creation 101 with MS Word or Google Docs
Hello everyone!
Thanks for coming to the Voc Talk Café and if you weren’t able to make it, no worries! You can check out the recording, discussion notes and resources on the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours website page here, and read the session summary below!
Summary
In today’s session, we looked at creating handouts and situating document creation in the andrological context. We looked at the options in MS Word and Google Docs and then had a working session supporting participants in formatting their own documents. We discussed moving between the two systems, and we discussed similarities in other document creation software such as Adobe InDesign and Canva. Teachers talked about students bringing design vision to documents in programs where this is taught and how adding images, icons and colour make the document more professional looking but keep it fun and engaging. A picture is worth 1000 words! We also got to customize a handout to our own program and have 1:1 support to integrate different pieces into our designs. Finally, participants requested another session to explore using forms in TEAMS, to be organized in the future.
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Do you have an idea for a Voc Talk Café discussion topic that you would like to discuss with your fellow teachers across the province? Let us know! We can help you set it up! Thanks to all who participated in discussing this very interesting subject, and I look forward to the next session!
👩🍳📱 Robin
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November 18, 2024
DOS Digital Open Sandbox: Writing AI prompts for Better Results
Hello everyone!
Here is the link to today’s Voc Talk café agenda. See you at 15:30!
👩🍳📱 Robin
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