FreshmanTechBlog3-2018-19

Congratulations. You've passed your Digital Citizenship exam. Hopefully you are now more informed about the consequences of your online actions and the higher expectations we need to have of each other.  Please take a moment and write a paragraph of your reaction to the presentations of your classmates. What did you take away from the experience?

Giving presentations is hard. Many of us are extremely uncomfortable speaking in front of an audience. It takes practice and skill. Here are some helpful tips. Excerpts from:  https://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation Frame your story We all know that humans are wired to listen to stories, and metaphors abound for the narrative structures that work best to engage people. When I think about compelling presentations, I think about taking an audience on a journey. A successful talk is a little miracle—people see the world differently afterward. Plan Your Delivery There are three main ways to deliver a talk. You can read it directly off a script or a teleprompter. You can develop a set of bullet points that map out what you’re going to say in each section rather than scripting the whole thing word for word. Or you can memorize your talk, which entails rehearsing it to the point where you internalize every word—verbatim. Develop Stage Presence ...

So now that you're ready to be a blogger. Great. Publishing your content is the easy part. Managing and preparing for the backlash or the fame that comes with posting your content on the internet is a whole other responsibility. For our next post you will be commenting on one review of someone else from our previous post. So follow this link: https://freshmantechblog3-2018-19.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-power-of-blogs.html and reply to someone else's post with your own perspective. Read their review and add your own thoughts to continue the thread started by your classmate.You can agree or disagree, but click Reply and add a paragraph of your own perspective to their post.