Final Presentation Ideas

Class Ideas

• Technology and Presentation
• orienting methods
• formal devices that we use to orient people:
• The Tempest
• Ebook/textbook
• Wiki
• Blog
• the map + annotations/links that direct people to different PLACES
• platform/rope/swimmers on a lake
• 6 themes
• 3 texts each
• we have NOT multiplied this into the Norton anthology
• Too much information problem is FIXED
• A jumping off point: you'll remember these 6 themes
• Narration versus no narration when presenting texts.
• how we assess their learning
• how we used the video quiz (branching), google doc quiz
• generation of interest, not a Testing Center type exam
• Six Themes
• Aspects for each theme
• what we would do for the three themes we didn't do:
• Sprezzatura
• fluid conversations: find out how much you know as you talk! 
• learn how to be a Renaissance Man **badging**
• the assessment system
• Bibles and Plough Boys
• spiritual aspect of the class
• faith, failure, how much do we put in?
• orientation and evolution from textbook to ebook to youtube
• oral presentation
• Humanism
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• Printing
• Maybe issue of different media--what are the problems of making it more open to all (like Thomas' bookshop: manuscripts to printing)
• Brave New Worlds
• Pedagogy:
• Collaborative learning
• mastering new skills, project based learning
• individual learning to group involvement evolution
• Ad Fontes
• Maybe issue of representing primary texts should go here instead...
• Issue of representing primary texts
• what's the role of 
• quotes? narration? summary? putting it into a different format?
• Nate's text video, Sarah's "new take" on sirens, Dia's zombies