This week I explored multiple presentation tools which I could possibly use for my presentation on sturgeons. There were many that I viewed but some were very limited in their tutorials and use and some did not exist anymore. The three that I will most likely choose from are Youblisher, Slideboom, or Prezi.
Youblisher is very good because it is so easy to use. Basically it is a publishing website which converts your presentations and all other pdf documents into publications with flippable pages. Your presentation comes up looking like an ebook with pages. You even get the page turning sound. One thing that I really liked about it was that you could just click on the page numbers to go ahead or go back, page numbers were located in the bottom. Just a double click on any image on the page would zoom in and you can scroll up and down. There is a video tutorial both in English and Spanish and you can view samples of recent publications. You can share four different ways. Once you upload your document or take a pdf from an internet source, you will get a url which you can put into your website or blog. You will also get an embed code with a small or large cover preview of your presentation. I would recommend Youblisher for those who wish to create a more traditional form of presentation, such as a book or magazine article about their topic. It looks very nice when uploaded from the pdf format once complete. You cannot have videos or animations and it is much less interactive. However, it is in the form of a book with flipping pages which is a nice way to present sometimes.
Slideboom is also very good but it a bit more interactive than Youblisher. It is still the same principle because you are uploading something that you have created in PowerPoint. Basically, it transforms your PowerPoint into something that can be shared on the web. You can also colect feedback from presentation viewers. There are a wide variety of presentations already created as samples in 100+ lanaguages and 30+ topics such as education, nature, and science. You can share your presentation either privately or publically. One thing that I thought was an excellent feature is that it keeps all of the animations and transitions as well as any audio narrations that you made in your PowerPoint presentation when creating it. Another really nice element that would be effective when presenting on a whiteboard is that you can write or draw on your slides with a marker and save them with slideboom. I would recommend this to someone who wants to use PowerPoint for their presentation, but also who wants to present their ideas to their web by publishing to their blog.
Prezi is the third presentation tool that I explored. I have been teaching science for four years now and some of my students prefer using this tool over PowerPoint. I find their presentations so fascinating and I love how they can work together on the presentation at the same time either in class or at home. This makes it an excellent collaboration tool. The tutorials and sample Prezis are exceptionally helpful over any other program that I have explored. However, I do not think that it is as easy to understand or use at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, it is an amazing tool for presenting. You can embed videos, images, zoom in, zoom out, you can also type text within text and zoom. It is very effective and keeps the attention of the audience. One thing that I like as well about Prezi is that it is more of a webbing tool for gathering information about your topic and then in the end you just choose a path which you want your presentation to flow in. I would recommend this program for its variety of resources and prezis, the ease of collaboration, and the functionality as a whole.
References:
http://prezi.com/
http://www.slideboom.com
http://youblisher.com/
Youblisher is very good because it is so easy to use. Basically it is a publishing website which converts your presentations and all other pdf documents into publications with flippable pages. Your presentation comes up looking like an ebook with pages. You even get the page turning sound. One thing that I really liked about it was that you could just click on the page numbers to go ahead or go back, page numbers were located in the bottom. Just a double click on any image on the page would zoom in and you can scroll up and down. There is a video tutorial both in English and Spanish and you can view samples of recent publications. You can share four different ways. Once you upload your document or take a pdf from an internet source, you will get a url which you can put into your website or blog. You will also get an embed code with a small or large cover preview of your presentation. I would recommend Youblisher for those who wish to create a more traditional form of presentation, such as a book or magazine article about their topic. It looks very nice when uploaded from the pdf format once complete. You cannot have videos or animations and it is much less interactive. However, it is in the form of a book with flipping pages which is a nice way to present sometimes.
Slideboom is also very good but it a bit more interactive than Youblisher. It is still the same principle because you are uploading something that you have created in PowerPoint. Basically, it transforms your PowerPoint into something that can be shared on the web. You can also colect feedback from presentation viewers. There are a wide variety of presentations already created as samples in 100+ lanaguages and 30+ topics such as education, nature, and science. You can share your presentation either privately or publically. One thing that I thought was an excellent feature is that it keeps all of the animations and transitions as well as any audio narrations that you made in your PowerPoint presentation when creating it. Another really nice element that would be effective when presenting on a whiteboard is that you can write or draw on your slides with a marker and save them with slideboom. I would recommend this to someone who wants to use PowerPoint for their presentation, but also who wants to present their ideas to their web by publishing to their blog.
Prezi is the third presentation tool that I explored. I have been teaching science for four years now and some of my students prefer using this tool over PowerPoint. I find their presentations so fascinating and I love how they can work together on the presentation at the same time either in class or at home. This makes it an excellent collaboration tool. The tutorials and sample Prezis are exceptionally helpful over any other program that I have explored. However, I do not think that it is as easy to understand or use at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, it is an amazing tool for presenting. You can embed videos, images, zoom in, zoom out, you can also type text within text and zoom. It is very effective and keeps the attention of the audience. One thing that I like as well about Prezi is that it is more of a webbing tool for gathering information about your topic and then in the end you just choose a path which you want your presentation to flow in. I would recommend this program for its variety of resources and prezis, the ease of collaboration, and the functionality as a whole.
References:
http://prezi.com/
http://www.slideboom.com
http://youblisher.com/
J-Thank you for sharing about Youblisher. I did not get a chance to take a look at that one. It sounds like that might be a good place to start with students. As tech savvy as students might be, mine often seem to lack the creativity sometimes. It might be a good idea to start out with traditional media with them.
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