Can you describe the best class presentations you have seen?

[Dratz]

Just wondering what creative minds some of the nursing students have had over the years that you have been teaching. Since I will be having to do quite a few class presentations I would like some ideas on how to be creative. Our class has done jeopardy games until we are blue and power point stuff, but do you educators know of any class presentation ideas that were fun and really made your classroom POP!!

Thanks,

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

IF you have sufficient class time, the absolute best presentations I have witnessed are ones in which the students are broken up into groups and each group assigned a topic to present. Often the students will amaze you with their creativity and the excitement in the classroom will be palpable.

I remember one student presentation in particular, concerning anorexia nervosa. The students first presented a case study (an acquaintance of one of the students, who had given her permission to relate her story in the class presentation), then pertinent high-priority nursing diagnoses. They also used props - one was a plate with actual food portions that the client would ingest daily. This was most dramatic, as the portions were incredibly small.

http://www.udel.edu/pbl/

http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/weimer.htm

http://www.abor.asu.edu/4_special_programs/lce/afc-defined_lce.htm

http://cte.udel.edu/bestpract.htm