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  Voc Talk Café by Après-cours – Digital Open Sandbox

  Posted by Robin Long on 23 February 2024 at 1:58 pm

  January 29, 2024 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.

  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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