Hello all,
I thought you’d like to see my themed golf trews from yesterday. I always wear flashy and colourful breeks when I’m golfing, but these are always reserved for the nearest game I play to Halloween! 🦇🎃🏌🏻♂️😂
Cheers, and I will see some of you on Friday for assessment one.
Mark
Hello all,
I hope you had a lovely break, you’re refreshed and ready for the next part of the learning until the December break.
Just a wee reminder for the structure you’ll need for the assessed presentation. Around 10-11 slides is normally a good number to aim for when delivering a 5-8 minute talk.
All of the following parts are required:
Slide 1 - your name, date of when you are presenting your talk, what the talk is about. Optionally, you may also wish to add an appropriate image.
Slide 2 - this tells the audience exactly the order of your presentation and should always finish with the same three bullet points. See below.
Slides 3-8 (this is an approximate number and your content, this is what you found out from your research).
Slide 9 - conclusion - this is vital to recap what you spoke about. No new info should appear here.
Slide 10 - references / sources - ALL sources should be noted here, hyperlinked. You don’t need to use Harvard, but can if you wish. I’ll look at that in the second assessment, report writing.
Slide 11 - Thank you for listening, are there any questions?
Sensible structure always wins the day!
Mark
Hello everybody.
I myself have never used Sway before, but as it was mentioned, I thought I’d pop a wee link on here which outlines how to use it should you so wish.
As a non expert or any time user, this is the best I can do at the moment, but it’s a starting point, right?
Here you go, please click on the link below:
https://stevenpayne.com/2016/09/create-amazing-presentations-sway/
Hope this helps. The tutorial is pretty instinctive and you can convert a Word and PP doc. if this is what you’d like to do. I still prefer PowerPoint as I’m so used to it, but choice is always good.
Don’t forget, the visuals are there to anchor what you are saying and provide signposts to what you’ve found out. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.
Mark
Once each group has thought of between 5 and 8 possible presentation subjects, one person in each group should come up to the front and type in their suggested titles.
Please put the names of each group member at the start so we know who suggested what.
In theory, we should have a great list.
Remember, all topics should be linked to the respective ‘Social’ Programme you are on. Let’s see what comes out!
I have started you off with a couple of suggestions for luck.
Mark - Principles of care, Poverty, Stress management.
Group 1 (Amanda, Nicola & Sophie) - Adoption & Fostering, Children & Families, Adults with Disabilities, Elderly, Children with Disabilities, Childrens Rights (SHANARRI)
Group 2 (Lauren, Claire, Marion, and Siobhan) Mental health, human behaviour, nature vs nurture, addictions, and children and families
Group 3 (Jasmeen, Mia, Jena, Lori) - Poverty, Racism, Gender equality, Sexism, Homophobia
Group 4 (Makenzie, Liam) - Children rights, social influences on a young person, Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD), working with a person in care, Dealing professionally with an abused child.
Well done, everybody.
Mark
PS - don't forget all the other additional topics contained in the assessment brief too!
Hello all,
I am looking forward to working with you all again tomorrow (Friday 7th October).
What follows is a note of how the sessions will go until the December break.
Remember, we have four assessments to do, so getting two done by the turn of the year will be great and then we can look at the other two in January. We are right on track.
Friday 7th October - we will recap on oral presentation delivery from two weeks ago, look at PowerPoint use, and do a wee group exercise on choosing a vocationally relevant topic. I have a list of possible topics too and this should give everybody a great idea what they want to present on. As long as it is on a topic related to your Programme, it will be fine. I will show you the assessment brief too. 5 minutes minimum, 8 minutes maximum.
Friday 14th October - look at some example presentations (to show you how I would like them structured), finalise your research topic and allocate assessment slots, work on presentations in class.
Friday 21st October - holiday
Friday 28th October - work on presentations in class with me helping as necessary.
Fridays 4th and 11th November - presentation assessment. These will be done in four sessions. The assessment is an individual one, but you will only present in front of a small group.
Friday 18th November - reflect on the presentation assessments and look at report writing skills. The topic of this assessment (650-1000 words) is likely to be on the same topic as your presentation. Any presentations not already passed at this stage assessed in the second half of the class.
Fridays 25/11, 2/12, 9/12, 16/12 - work on reports in class.
Deadline for the report is Friday 16th December 2022 via Moodle. I will look at drafts before that though.
23/12 - holiday.
Hope that helps.
Mark
