Activity #5
Presentation Tools for my 2.0 Classroom!!
This week's assignment has focused on 3 presentation tools, 2 I've never even heard of, so this has been fun!! PowerPoint, Prezi and Glogster ohmi!! Again my focus has not been entirely what I am comfortable with, but what my student's would be comfortable with and what uses these tools would serve in my classrooms per se.
PowerPoint
I battled my demons with PowerPoint considering I am still amazed with what it actually can do! It's far removed from the boring PowerPoint of the 90's and I feel my students would be equally impressed with it's features.
As many people have experienced PowerPoint in their lives, for me it's never been a tool I've been particularly fond of. I know it has it's place, for me it's generally been in a board room on a snowy Monday Morning, listening to my manager drone on about Sales figures and why we're not meeting quarterly budgets. I have go admit my attitude has indeed been adjusted with this exercise. My students could definitely use this tool for their presentations, and reports. Each student could perhaps work on slides and collaborate them together. Inputting graphics, neat slide changes, images etc., makes this ideal for my vision of my future classroom. Students can do book reports, biographies or play reviews with these tools. It makes their learning interesting, meaningful but also incorporates new technology with perhaps their old texts they are studying. I have attempted to make a basic presentation but trust me, I am still updating my learning curve with the great exciting tool.
Prezi
Well just as I got my head around the wonderment of PowerPoint and all it can offer myself and my students, I was presented with Prezi. This is a tool that creates a pathway for presentations. Now although the graphics are interesting, and the tutorial (that I watched 3 times mind you) did show all the wonderful things Prezi can do, I sadly to not see how this tool will benefit my students or myself. That is bare honesty but I struggle to see how this tool sincerely offers benefit to students or a classroom as a whole. I did create a very basic Prezi just to see where I went with it, it was confusing and frustrating I am sorry say.
Glogster
Glogster has been the most exciting discovery and it's uses in my classroom and with my students are seemingly endless. This great scrapbooking style tool uses all sorts of medium and I believe my students really will get excited when using it. Glogster incorporates images, text, video, creative backgrounds and all sorts of amazing tools that I'm still discovering. I believe for both my English and Drama classes, students will find many uses for projects, presentations or even planning. Glogster engages the student's creativity and I love that! My Glogster is basic but I did have fun, challenging at times (but what isn't these days haha), but a great discovery and will be definitely used in my future classroom.
http://canusa23.edu.glogster.com/george-bernard-shaw/
http://canusa23.edu.glogster.com/george-bernard-shaw/
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