 Oh my gosh, that's an ugly slide. Welcome to the worst preso ever. A wacky fun lesson plan that I've come up with over a couple of years. My name is John Carripo. Hey, a lot of times when you go to the computer lab, it kind of looks like this. It's kids and Rose. They're not really jacked about work going to the computer lab because what happens is sometimes it takes a whole quarter to learn an app. So this is a fast, quick start, fun lesson plan. And I'm going to give you a couple different ways to start up your year. I think you really enjoy this. This is a fun lesson plan. It teaches fast tech skills as fast as two periods. Your kids will show dramatic skill growth. It jump starts their presentation skills because they don't have a week to worry and wonder about their presentation. We're just going to throw them into the deep end of the pool and laugh and have a good time. It builds collaboration skills. You've got people working in groups kind of breaking down barriers a little bit, but yet everybody's independently accountable at the end. And then it gets students thinking, quick projects. You're really setting the pace in your classroom for things that get wrapped up quickly. A nice tight time frame and then we get her done and they get feedback right away. Students, you have them get ready to take notes. Now they can take notes on a paper pen, which is totally acceptable. You can use things like Evernote if you're a little ahead of the curve there. And then something like Drop could be used. Anything where the kids can take notes. One angle is if you're running iOS 9, that works great for iPads. You can draw a little sketch notes right on your iPad. So there will be note-taking coming up as part of the lesson with the kids here. Next, I found this video literally nine years ago, eight years ago, I think, a long time ago. Oh, don't date me on that, but a long time ago. And basically the stand-up comedian, Don McMillan, the video's on YouTube and this guy goes through and makes, oh, I don't know, eight or nine really bad slides. And you can watch this video on YouTube and then you're going to show it to the kids. As the kids are watching, you're going to have them pause and take notes. So when you see most common PowerPoint mistakes and this one is the too many bullets slide, pause the video, have the kids take some notes about what they should not do. When he does effectiveness versus data, which is really hilarious where he puts about 50 charts on the screen and talks about how it's less readable, the more stuff you add, so most people add more stuff. And then another example is animation versus effectiveness. So having kids just playing with animations and goofing around to distract the audience. So you're going to take notes on each one of the significant parts that Don takes a break on. Now, the kids can work together to design their own bad slides, but each student builds their own slide deck. And what you're going to give them for a subject is something they like or dislike. And that could be pets, sports, foods, bands, a food you like, a food you don't like. But you're going to do the world's worst PowerPoint or the world's worst prezzo on one of those things. You only get to break one rule per slide. This is important to sort out with kids what's the different rules they're breaking. If you have them break five rules on a slide, it gets so bad that it's now basically useless because it's all a jumble. So I only let them break one rule per slide. And then they have to break at least five of the rules, which means their presentation should have five slides. And they need to list the rule being broken on the slide. So now one of the next things, one of the next questions I'm going to get is, oh, John, what platform, what app are we using? Well, it really doesn't matter. You can use Keynote, you can use PowerPoint, you can use Google Slides. Any of those is fine. Anything that makes slides is acceptable. And I'm going to just wander around the classroom helping kids on the fly. I'm not going to teach them how to do animations. I'm not going to teach them how to put in bullets. I'm going to let them work in little groups and I'm going to let them fail. And I'm going to go around the room helping them in small groups. I'm not going to teach them in a big group because what happens in a big group is one-third of the kids already know and you're insulting them. One-third of the kids might get it but might need another rep. And then one-third of the kids, they don't care at all. So you're going to have to help them later anyways. So my logic is just tell them, do these things and then move around the room and help them work through those. And they're only building five slides. So this should really be a fast build. This should be something like 20 to 35 minutes. You could probably make the whole presentation of the lesson and the building of the slides one class period if you're in a 55 minute model. And then the second class period we got some more fun stuff coming. So you have the kids save their slides when they're done and then everybody's going to present. You're only going to give them three minutes to present. You can even chop that down to two minutes and 30 seconds or two minutes because frankly this is not a formal presentation. It's just kids getting in front of the room and having a good time. So put a real hard clock on them, put a timer, nothing over your set time. You can do the math however you like. But that really creates some intensity too because there's a timer involved and people can't just go and go and go. Now the next bit I like to do is I have student feedback. So when we get to the point where the kids are ready to present, I will get two or three or four kids out of the audience. And I'll put them at the front of the room across from the presenter. And I'll call one of them Randy and one of them can be Ryan Seacrest and they can each get a little different role. And you can do this on paper or you can do it with like a Google form or sometimes even a Kahoot if you want to get a little crazy. But basically the kids are going to give feedback to the kids on their quick three minute presentations. And this really makes it social and it gives the voice to the students. So the kids are talking to the kids about the stuff. And remember we're not dealing with academic items on this first activity. This is just strictly fun stuff, favorite bands, favorite pets, favorite foods, stuff that all the kids can collaborate on and connect with. So it's a really fun thing to let the kids give them the feedback and then you play the role of the moderator. And your job is to kind of float around the classroom and that's why I say my role is to be Ryan Seacrest. I'm there to help support the students of presenting. I'm there to help explain when there's a mistake or error and the significance and the fix for that. But wait, there's a plot twist ahead. This is the thing you don't tell the kids until it's too late. They're going to present somebody else's slides and that makes it really funny because the presenter kid is going to have trouble. They're going to not know exactly what somebody meant on some slides. It makes it really chaotic. I will tell you that when we did these at Minaretts High School, Jamie Smith, a language arts teacher there at Minaretts, when she was doing this you have never heard kids laughing so hard and enjoying each other on their presentations and really letting the guilt go that it is supposed to be a bad presentation. But what the kids are really learning in that backwards teenage mind is that they're embracing the wrongness so they can appreciate the rightness. So, you know, hilarity ensues. You establish the tempo that we're going to do these things quickly. And really you're embracing the four C's, right? Because the students are collaborating. The students are communicating a lot. There's a lot of talking going on along the lines of what the technical bits are and what's good and what's bad and what's right. You know, there will be a couple of kids every time that do something really, really over the top creative and it's so cool to see the rest of the class kind of get on the bandwagon with that. They'll start asking that student, how did you do that? So, I think this is also a really good lesson plan to play with establishing the four C's in your classroom, lesson design. You're going to see a lot of creativity. You're going to see a lot of communication. The kids are going to be collaborating when they get stuck. And the critical thinking bit is it's not as strong in this because it's kind of a fun wacky lesson. But you could always have the kids or the students make a... What if they made a serious slide deck afterwards about what they learned in the fun slide deck? Now you can start bringing in some critical thinking skills. Another example would be if they could do a blog article or write about their learnings. That could be fully academic, so it's a chance to give kids another way to explain their skill set. Now I got a couple of sequels for this fun activity. One of them is called Pecha Flicker. Now once kids have done this, if you're in a classroom where one of your goals is to get kids presenting better, Pecha Flicker is hilarious. Basically Pecha Kucha or Pecha Kacha, depending on how you pronounce it, it's a game where kids, where adults get together and they do 20 slides on a 20 second interval. So the slide advances every 20 seconds. Well if you go to Pecha Flicker on the internet, you can put in 4 slides for 5 seconds each or 10 seconds each or 20 seconds each. And if you type in dog, you're going to get random dog related pictures. It may not be of a dog. It may be of something reminiscent of a dog. And it's a really, really, really fun way to get kids speaking extemporaneously and being better on task. Because again, there's this high failure rate. There are going to be issues. There are going to be problems. There are going to be things that are unexpected. But it's being done in a fun and creative way. So that's, that Pecha Flicker is a really, really fun site. And then one other sequel is a thing I'm calling Iron Chef. I've been calling it Iron Chef for about 7 or 8 years now. And we take some of the elements of the worst prezzo ever. And we use them to do academic things. So if you can imagine the good old Frayer model or the good old Jigsaw. Imagine that kids have this fast build capability. Now you can just roll into class and say, I want you guys to tell me about Thomas Jefferson. And you each have 10 minutes to build one slide. Well one student might be summarizing his life. One student might be finding four or five primary documents. One student might be talking about key debates or battle, you know, political battles that he's won and things that Thomas Jefferson got done. So each kid builds one slide and then they present them together and they get about 30 seconds to present their single slide. It's a great way to move away from the classic lecture to tell you things. So check out Iron Chef. You can just Google Iron Chef, John Carrippo. You'll see Vicki Davis' interview with me and there's some really good links there for that website. And so that's the concept of the worst presentation ever. And the goal is being bad can be so much fun. So my name is John Carrippo. I'm the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE. We are the West Coast Istia affiliate. And I love education and I love lesson design. And thanks for letting me share a fun and wacky lesson with you today.