Choose Your Own Adventure Revising and Editing Lesson 4: Beta Testing

After students complete the presentation, students participated in "Beta Testing" which is similar to the conferencing and revising found in writing workshop.

Each presentation needed two people to beta testers. I had them fill out a beta testing form:

Beta Testing

Owner of the presentation: Set your presentation to presentation mode.

Beta tester: click through the presentation. If you need to uncover a slide number, you can press the ESC key, record the number, and then resume presentation from that slide

Does the PPT have 2 deviations (5 for partners)?

Does the PPT have 3 themes that seem accurate (6 for partners?)

Issues with hyperlinks: (ex: it doesn’t work, description doesn’t lead you to the slide that would make sense, etc.)

Accuracy issues:

Spelling or grammar issues (make sure to include slide numbers!):

Areas where you would like more details, info, imagery, dialogue (this may  not be for everyone, but you should especially let people know if their storylines feel skimpy)