I will teach students about scaffolding communication.
For school assembly, students will present "teasers" - one minute video commercials about their research and service learning project that create interest, empathy, and result.
For parent presentations students will compose:
- A Google presentation with essential questions, key information, matching images, diagrams, and animation that supports their oral presentation.
- An oral presentation that is collaborative, entertaining, and educational.
- A "virtual reality" classroom display that allows our visitors to know what it's like to live and work in the animal reservation the students are studying.
The service learning project will include:
- Signage that educates and entices students in school to visit the sale, purchase items, learn about endangered species, and desire to save endangered species.
- Service learning items for sale that are attractive and desirable to the school community and that remind the school community of the important information related to conservation of endangered species.
We don't want to overwhelm, yet we do want to inform.
We don't want to tell people what to do, but we want to create empathy and action for the cause.
We don't want to tell every detail, but we do want to tell the most important details, the details that matter to our audience and the purpose of our work: saving endangered animals.
This increased focus on effective communication will impact my own communication as well. Let me know if you have further ideas for this work. I'm curious.
