April 12, 2012

Class Work

1. Editing activity for the PowerPoint
2. Sign up for your presentation. Remember, you MUST have your PowerPoint on a jump drive or burned to a disk. There is not time to sign into your e-mail and find it when you give your presentation. (A few of you have your presentation in a format other than PowerPoint. Let's practice a bit today to see how long it takes for you to sign into the "cloud" and find your presentation.)
3. Let's talk about eye contact, vocal projection, stance, and a smile! All are important when giving a presentation.
4. How to be a good member of the audience . . . let's create the guidelines.
5. Sign up to give your presentation . . . This is the order . . . times are estimates only .

4. Preview of coming attractions - What are artifacts?
Look at the pictures - how would you define the word? http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=artifacts

Are artifacts from historical events different from "every-day" artifacts?
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=artifacts+from+the+titanic
How does is the term defined in the dictionary? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/artifact

What are personal artifacts?

Do you have an "artifact" that is important to you? What is it? Where did you get it? Is it symbolic of you? 

Homework

1. Prepare your PowerPoint presentation. Be ready.
2. Be ready with your essay. Include the draft and editing notes with the final copy. Place the final copy on top.
3. Look for a personal artifact.What is it? Where did you get it? Did it belong to someone?  Is it symbolic of you?  Explain. Just do a 10 minute "free write" and reflect on the artifact.