Ignite Talk Reflections Day Two

After having watched two presentations and Ignite Talks in the previous class, I was really nervous for when I had to present. However, I really think our group did an amazing job presenting our book and what we took from it to the class. It was pretty nerve-racking standing up there with everyone staring at you and realizing you only had 15 seconds before the slide behind you was going to change, but I think we pulled it off. I was afraid we would go over time-wise but we actually ended up concluding the presentation at just the perfect time. Although I wasn’t exactly in charge of our group’s activity, I believe it went really well. I got the feeling that the class was a little confused what was being asked of them at first but once the activity kept going I saw that they were starting to realize the point. Our activity was for the class to read an article and select a phrase within it that really stuck out to them. They then had to read that phrase over and over in a different way each time. They were then placed into groups to conduct a poem with each member’s phrase. I really enjoyed hearing all the different poems that came out of this activity and I could definitely see myself using this activity in my own classroom later on.