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Share and finalize Connect webinar lesson plan with Critical Friend by Sunday November 24

Present Course and Evaluate Peers (65 points total) between December 2 and December 13

All Final Materials and Evaluations due December 13

 

Adobe Connect Webinar: The Final Presentation

Objectives:

You will:

  • Describe and use the main features of webinar software to present synchronously to peers.
  • Design synchronous educational experiences for a specific learning audience, following the instructional design process.

Module Overview

You are to create a lesson based on the content of your instructional module to teach your colleagues from a distance using the Adobe Connect webinar software. Your lesson should be at least 10 minutes but last no longer than 15 minutes. Your lesson must engage your audience - it is NOT acceptable for you to lecture on content for 15 minutes.

You may wish to refer back to your ID Plan that you completed earlier in the semester to choose a single objective or activity that you wish to cover, or you may wish to take your presentation in a slightly different direction. Either way, remember to plan for interacting with the audience, such as asking questions, posing "story problems" that require responses, or using some other mechanism to get the audience involved in the presentation.

Procedures

Step 1: Create Lesson Plan/Outline Draft

You will need to put together a presentation, complete with slides and other learning resources as needed, and be prepared to answer questions on the topic from your peers. You should already be somewhat familiar with your topic, so it may be quite easy to develop a lesson plan/outline for a lesson using Adobe Connect. Of course, try not to "overplan," which is very easy to do when you have a lot of things you wish to cover. Instead, try to scale your presentation down to a few main points, making sure that you are able to appropriately showcase your BlackBoard/Moodle/Coursekit course along the way.

Your lesson plan/outline should include the following:

  • A description of your lesson
  • A description of your target audience
  • Your objectives
  • A detailed plan or step-by-step instructor guide
  • Instructional Materials (i.e., PowerPoints, handouts, etc.)
  • A plan to assess the lesson's effectiveness
  • List of outside sources consulted and/or referenced in presentation

You should submit your lesson plan/outline first to your critical friend as a draft. You are expected to look over your critical friend's lesson plan/outline and give constructive feedback, and s/he will do the same for you.

Click here for a template to help you work through your outline/lesson plan

Step 2: Present your Lesson using Adobe Connect

Click here to view a brief video overview of how Adobe Connect functions

In order to successfully fulfill all the requirements of the assignment, you must also view AT LEAST ONE presentation from your peers as well as complete your own presentation. This means that even if you are not presenting, you are expected to participate in at least one other classmate's presentation as an audience member. Once you have viewed a peer's presentation, enter the Connect Presentation Peer Feedback Forum to provide them with feedback (see below).

Below are some examples of excellent presentations from previous semesters. Some of these students had a slightly different topic/objective for their presentation than you will, but the idea is the same - conduct a 15 minute webinar that engages the audience successfully. So, if you are looking for good ideas for fostering high levels of engagement, watch these examples and how each presenter took a different spin on the concept.

Step 3: Evaluate your peers' presentations

Before the end of the semester, you will evaluate AT LEAST ONE of your peers' presentations and provide them feedback in the "Connect Presentation Peer Feedback" discussion forum. In your feedback you should address the following three questions:

  • Identify the more important/interesting thing you learned from the lesson.
  • What aspect/section of the lesson was most effective for the content and delivery method (i.e., what worked well in the lesson)?
  • How could the lesson have been improved?

Finally, you will receive your link to your recorded presentation shortly after you present - be sure to submit this as well as your ID Plan to TaskStream for your instructional design/technology program portfolio (if applicable).