Monday, November 26, 2018

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 Prepping your Slideshow (20 seconds per slide)


Once you create your presentation in Google Slides, you will need to PUBLISH IT TO THE WEB and set the auto advance timer to 20 seconds.


  1. On the home page of your slide show, click "file"
  2. on the drop down menu, click "publish to the web"
  3. On the pop up, click "start slideshow as soon as the player loads" (don't worry about the timer yet....)
  4. copy and paste the shareable link into another place (i put it in my blog as an unedited post)
  5. The last part of the link should be a number (the default is 3000, meaning 3 seconds).  Change that to "20000", meaning 20 seconds
Then you want to take that "shareable link" and hyperlink it on your blog so that you can simply click on it when you do your presentation in class.

Remember to practice with your slideshow set to 20 seconds per slide.


Example of a slideshow
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQJoJdKst6k5_OUguhUrCkMWXkWhhBsFOqUo0MZly7bQStv36V88hOHPTZ9yCChO1p262Y8P-6SwUoz/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=20000

Sunday, November 25, 2018


EMAIL TEMPLATE FOR STUDENTS TO USE:

Dear FNED 346 Student,

Thinking about the qualities and dispositions that you bring to your work with young 
people is a critical part of becoming a teacher or youth worker.  In FNED 346 
we ask you to self-assess your dispositional qualities, and then we have your 
Service Learning teacher and your faculty member assess you as well.  
These assessments become a marker of your beginning in the journey of 
becoming a teacher of youth worker.

Please email your teacher with this link and ask them to fill out this form for you.

Here is a sample email you could send to your teacher asking him/her to fill this out.

Dear XXX,

Thank you so much for hosting me in your classroom this semester.  
I learned a lot and enjoyed the opportunity to work with xxxx.

As a requirement for my education program at RIC, 
I am asking you to please submit this very short form assessing me and my dispositions.  


It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.  
You will need the following information about me in order to fill it out:

Last Name:  Doe
First Name: Jane
Course: FNED 346

Thank you for submitting this on my behalf.  It needs to be posted no
 later than Friday December 14, 2018 in order for me to complete my FNED 346 
course, so please submit this as soon as possible. If you have any questions, 
please contact me at the numbers below.

Sincerely,

Jane Doe
Email@email.com
Cell phone

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Pecha Kucha Resources

As you start to wrap your head around the Pecha Kucha presentation, here are some tips and suggestions to get you started...

First Watch this PK for the overview:




But don't get overwhelmed by his uber-professional presentation.  Think of this as a master class in PK Presentation Style.  What does he say that you can use as advice while you work on your own PK?  What do you notice that makes his presentation successful?

Then watch this PK from an undergraduate student in FNED 346 (2015).
What do you notice that makes her presentation successful? How might you do some things differently t make your own presentation more successful?

OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES:
What is Pecha Kucha?
Why Use Pecha Kucha?
5 Tips for doing Pecha Kucha
Creating PK in Google Slides

Tuesday, October 23, 2018


Resources and Ways to Support the Transgender Community


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How to support transgender people in your life:  The National Center for Transgender Equality

Read more about recent policy proposals that would impact the Trans community in this informative Bustle article.

Monday, October 15, 2018

Safer Spaces?

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Just a few weeks ago, there was an active shooter drill in a school.  Educators told a student who is transgender to sit alone and vulnerable in an open hallway, and they directed the other students to shelter in single sex locker rooms. Educators said they told the student to sit out in the hallway because they didn't know what else to do, and they weren't told by administrators what to do.  What do you think about this response?  What would you have done?

LISTEN to parents who want you to met their child.  What would they want you as an educator to do to in this situation?




 Hear Ryland's story:


 

Click here to hear stories from 11 transgender Americans.



Tuesday, September 11, 2018

If you want to make your blog private

OPTIONAL:  If you want change your blog to private...



If you want to make your blog private, so that only we (in this class) can read it, then you have to invite us to be readers of your blog and we each have to accept your invitation.  To do so you will need all of our email addresses so that you can invite each of us.

I will collect gmail addresses in class and will email you all a list so that you can do this if you choose.

Here are instructions for making your blog private.  You do so in the SETTINGS feature under DESIGN (in the top right corner of your blog.)


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