IIC Competition

My favorite pitch for the IIC competition was Teaching Persuasive Essay: Diigomeister (Lit Video 4). This pitch was among one of the most explicit, clear, and focused of all of the pitches that I saw. They proposed that their students be introduced to writing persuasive essays with the technologies of Diigo and Mindmeister. Diigo is a collaborative resource that will provide opportunities for students to write essays while providing a receiving feedback from their peers. This will be extremely helpful to students because feedback and multiple drafts are very important in helping students improve their persuasive writing skills. Mindmeister is another collaborative tool, but this one provides a forum where students can outline their ideas and map their essays. This has lots of space and can be changed, and edited easily.

I thought that this group was very logical in the way that they presented their goal and their tools for accomplishing their goal. Many of the other pitches had way to much information and materials to model. It was difficult to remember what their objective was, and what technology you were learning about. The technologies this group presented were simple and had a specific task that would help the students accomplish their goals.