Today the 8th grade went to their assigned classrooms and presented PowerPoints on foundations they want supported by the shoe box sale we will have during the school's "Earth Week" when we get back from spring break. They seemed to present well; although, there was still a lot of turning to the whiteboard and reading loads of text . I''m not sure what can be done about this. We discussed it. The 8th graders acknowledged that they hate PowerPoint presentations like that. We practice good ones. We went back into the computer lab to fix the PowerPoints. I was watching an 8th grader present to the 1st grade, and she had one PowerPoint which was just page after page of text that she read word for word. The next PowerPoint was full of colorful pictures with very little text. The first graders audibly sighed in awe and relief when the PowerPoint started. Yet the "read the page of text in front of you" style of PowerPoint presentation remains. Last night the guidance counselors and admin made PowerPoint presentations to the staff and parent community about testing, budget, sustainability, new personnel, .... They read a lot of pages of text from PowerPoints to those assembled.
But tomorrow is Spring Break!! By this time tomorrow American Airlines will (hopefully) have delivered me safely to Miami airport.
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