Powerpoint
I must begin by saying that I believe everyone has used powerpoint in one form or another - whether that is creating a presentation or viewing something presented by a teacher or peer. Powerpoint is extremely simple to use and requires minimal in-depth instruction. I made a very simple powerpoint presentation to embed within this blog posting, to show what can be whipped up in a matter of minutes. I chose a theme, added text, inserted pictures, added animations, added extra slides and incorporated audio and it took no longer than 3 minutes. I like the functionality of powerpoint, especially for the younger learners, however being a secondary teacher, I think that there are better, more visually pleasing presentation platforms available - like Prezi. I'm a very visual person, however power point has the tendency to look too cluttered or too simple.
E-Learning 2013 Tonie Cooper from ItsJustTonie
The biggest issue I have with creating powerpoint presentations, is that the only way to get the full powerpoint experience is by viewing it through powerpoint. I embedded my powerpoint through slideshare.net, which enables you to view your presentations online and share with others, however viewers aren't able to see the interactive side of it. Viewers must go to the slideshare link and download a copy to their computer to view the animations and audio included, which is fine, but can be risky especially when it comes to copyright and sharing limitations.
Overall, I would recommend powerpoint to those who teach younger grades and utilise a different platform for older students.
Prezi
I'm somewhat of a newbie to prezi, having only discovered it earlier this year - but I'm obsessed! I've completely thrown powerpoint out of the window and have been converted. I've utilised with other classmates for collaborative assignments, personal presentation and I even created prezi's to show to students during my first round of school placements. I can't say enough good things about the platform, it's simplistic, easy to use yet full of visually pleasing aspects. You can embed just about anything within a prezi, which can make it more personal or intellectually stimulating and it's able to be shared online or saved to your computer and none of the functionality or interactivity is lost.
Prezi linked here
Located above is the link to a prezi I created a few months ago to show to a grade 8 class who were studying multiculturalism and acceptance. It took me an hour to create the prezi that I was happy with, add extra sections and embed the YouTube clip. I really liked that I was able to save the file to my computer so I didn't have to connect to the school's internet to show the students. The students were engaged and interested in the presentation and we all had a really great discussion afterwards about what they viewed.
I'm definitely a prezi user and I would like to incorporate it into a lot of my future lessons and I know just how much benefit the students can gain from it when used correctly.
Glogster
I've used glogster previously and like always, it never fails to let me down with the wait time! I can only imagine what it would be like trying to keep a cohort of students patient and quiet while you wait on a website that takes an extremely long time to load. In fact, waiting for glogster to load today, so I could embed something to my blog, took longer than 45 minutes, and in a classroom environment that is the lesson almost over. Once the page had finally loaded, replacing the text with my own was easy enough, but trying to add images also took a long time.
Glogster is very simple to use, I was able to create a basic poster in a short amount of time and copy the link easily enough to place on my blog: http://itsjusttonie.edu.glogster.com/e-learning.
As it is so simplistic and quite 'cute', I could envision it being more suited to younger students as it seems an easy way to create a poster or information board. It has a few positives, unfortunately the aspect of how long it takes for the website to load is a huge letdown. The other disappoint was that there was no included option to save the glog to your computer. The only way I could save it was to view it on full screen and screenshot it. I wanted to include a picture on this blog posting and now it will have probably lost some of its clarity. If I was a teacher of primary children, I would probably include glogster within my teaching practices, but for secondary students, I would be more likely to choose photoshop or prezi for poster creation.
The biggest issue I have with creating powerpoint presentations, is that the only way to get the full powerpoint experience is by viewing it through powerpoint. I embedded my powerpoint through slideshare.net, which enables you to view your presentations online and share with others, however viewers aren't able to see the interactive side of it. Viewers must go to the slideshare link and download a copy to their computer to view the animations and audio included, which is fine, but can be risky especially when it comes to copyright and sharing limitations.
Overall, I would recommend powerpoint to those who teach younger grades and utilise a different platform for older students.
Prezi
I'm somewhat of a newbie to prezi, having only discovered it earlier this year - but I'm obsessed! I've completely thrown powerpoint out of the window and have been converted. I've utilised with other classmates for collaborative assignments, personal presentation and I even created prezi's to show to students during my first round of school placements. I can't say enough good things about the platform, it's simplistic, easy to use yet full of visually pleasing aspects. You can embed just about anything within a prezi, which can make it more personal or intellectually stimulating and it's able to be shared online or saved to your computer and none of the functionality or interactivity is lost.
Prezi linked here
Located above is the link to a prezi I created a few months ago to show to a grade 8 class who were studying multiculturalism and acceptance. It took me an hour to create the prezi that I was happy with, add extra sections and embed the YouTube clip. I really liked that I was able to save the file to my computer so I didn't have to connect to the school's internet to show the students. The students were engaged and interested in the presentation and we all had a really great discussion afterwards about what they viewed.
I'm definitely a prezi user and I would like to incorporate it into a lot of my future lessons and I know just how much benefit the students can gain from it when used correctly.
Glogster
I've used glogster previously and like always, it never fails to let me down with the wait time! I can only imagine what it would be like trying to keep a cohort of students patient and quiet while you wait on a website that takes an extremely long time to load. In fact, waiting for glogster to load today, so I could embed something to my blog, took longer than 45 minutes, and in a classroom environment that is the lesson almost over. Once the page had finally loaded, replacing the text with my own was easy enough, but trying to add images also took a long time.
Glogster is very simple to use, I was able to create a basic poster in a short amount of time and copy the link easily enough to place on my blog: http://itsjusttonie.edu.glogster.com/e-learning.
As it is so simplistic and quite 'cute', I could envision it being more suited to younger students as it seems an easy way to create a poster or information board. It has a few positives, unfortunately the aspect of how long it takes for the website to load is a huge letdown. The other disappoint was that there was no included option to save the glog to your computer. The only way I could save it was to view it on full screen and screenshot it. I wanted to include a picture on this blog posting and now it will have probably lost some of its clarity. If I was a teacher of primary children, I would probably include glogster within my teaching practices, but for secondary students, I would be more likely to choose photoshop or prezi for poster creation.
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