Prezi+Project

Prezi is definitely an interesting program. I must say that at first I had a hard time getting used to it. I like how you can move the slides around to create a type of graphic organizer to help the flow. I think I would need to practice in this program a lot in order to produce a Prezi that I really liked. I tried, but felt like the ones in the video looked so much better! I also get motion sick very easily so I tried doing grouping within grouping like the videos recommended, but I still felt sick after watching the movement in the video. I saw someone else do a Prezi presentation at a conference I went to and I loved the presentation, but I will have to practice a little bit more!

Great job, Robyn, creating a non-linear presentation on planets using Prezi! I liked how you added the youtube videos (WOW!) and made smooth-transitions. Very creative! I hope that it was not too painful using this non-linear tool to create a presentation. (Digital Immigrants tend to prefer the linear Power Point to the highly visual swings of Prezi!) To be honest, people seem to have very strong feelings about Prezi: they either hate it or love it. J There are many ideas about how to use Prezi in the classroom: as a visually appealing alternative to Power Point, making mind maps, creating fun activities, allow students to use it for projects, making timelines, … and the list could go on. There are, of course, some downsides to this application: just like Power Point, it is a visual tool that does not reinforce auditory learning, it is TIME-CONSUMING when you are first learning how to use it, some viewers experience sea-sickness when the creator fails to use frames and creates a path that swings far from side to side, and the free account only allows you 100MB so you will use that amount quickly.

Resources for the future: Here is a link for using Prezi as a collaborative tool—much like google docs. There is a short video introduction and then there is a link for the manual to teach you how to facilitate students working together on a Prezi presentation (in real time!) yet not on the same computer, or in the same room, or even in the same country! [] []

Here is an interesting article with many resources on other online presentation tools—be sure and read the comments section since there are more that are referenced there: 12 Top Notch Online Presentation Tools []

An example to refer to in the future by Mrs. Gloria Euote of the BJU Faculty: []

Have you ever heard of glogging? Well, if you haven’t, you are not alone. J The g in the term glog refers to graphics—but it is much more than that. A glog is an online interactive poster and many teachers are building them to extend learning for their students, and assigning them to their students to create as visuals to go along with research reports/projects. Gone are the days of students buying a cardboard poster at WalMart and using markers, glitter, and glue to create a visual for a report; students now make their own interactive posters because they can integrate images/graphics, text, music, and video without a lot of difficulty. You can use many programs to create a glog (e.g., Word or Publisher) and then upload it to your class webpage, or you can use online applications such as EduGlogster. I have uploaded some examples of glogs for you to look at to see if interactive posters are something that you might want to use with your students. [] Educator Resource Library from Glogster: [] Here are some glogs created by former ED667 students: [] [] [] []