Week one of Digital storytelling

So I was busy telling stories last weekend using a power point put together by my school principal. The presentation itself turned out to be very effective, much hand shaking and thank you's afterward nice comments from colleague and calls to the office regarding the fine presentation. Only thing is the internet did not work at the presentation so I had to wing most of the presentation. After reading the articles and Presentation Zen this week I realized that the success of the presentation was due to the simplicity of the slide presentation. If it were full of details about what they were going to see when we all logged in to the website they would surely have met with great disappointment. Instead I related the story of how I teach my class and what role the student and parents have in the learning process. It was helpful to have them see some screen shots as well (I ran to Starbucks and quickly saved some screen shots to include in the power point) I was able to show them that the important information I was telling them could be found in four different areas and that there was plenty of support at the start an during the school year for their student and parent as well. I am going back tomorrow for a second round and hope to use some of what I have learned for the presentations tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes.