Word Processing Ideas

Throughout my educational experience I can recall countless times that I was asked to present material using a poster. Although PowerPoint always seems to prevail when an option, I am amazed at how often the traditional "paper and pencil" way of presenting still exists in classrooms today. I'm a fan of the "old-fashioned" ways of teaching but I'm just as big of a fan of options for my students. I will always incorporate posters as an option in my assignments, but will never make it mandatory. I believe that every child has his or her own way of best presenting their creativity and knowledge and that to limit students to presentation options is wrong. All in all, I will definitely incorporate posters in my classroom because I do agree that it enables children to show a higher order of thinking( ex. not being able to read directly from the poster and having to take the key points and present it as a whole to the class).

As for newsletters, none of my teachers ever assigned them! And after reading this article, I will definitely try it out in my classroom, I think it's a great way to get students more involved in the class and also help bring them together as a community. Compared to posters I think newsletters require more higher order thinking. With a poster board you have the advantage to present your ideas and pictures to the audience while with a newsletter you will most likely not being reading it with your audience.You have to make sure you get the key concepts addressed fully in the newsletter and that the write graphics are picked out so that the audience is focusing in on the main idea while reading.