Week 5 – Group 3 Tools – PowerPoint / Prezi / Glogster

 Powerpoint

Well I think that PowerPoint would have to be my favourite! Well that is only because it is the only one that I know how to use. That is just use there is not a lot of flamboyant stuff happening with my PowerPoint presentations. I can make them slide in at different intervals, use different sounds. A PowerPoint presentation can include any one of the tools that have been previously talked about in the e-learning. You can insert images, podcasts, digital videos, wiki / websites / blog links, you can even add in a prezi document and a glogster document ( I call these documents as I have not researched them further as of yet).
There is a wide variety of paths that a PowerPoint can lead to for a classroom teacher, these can be all engaging and complex whilst conveying the message that you want to be seen and heard.

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-PowerPoint-Presentation

Prezi
For older students I think that prezi is a fun and exciting way for students to create a presentation and add the final details that make for a wow presentation. For me however I get motion sickness and after 30 seconds of watching a presentation I feel nauseated. Therefore I have not researched this topic any further. SORRY!!!
So it got the better of me and I did a Google search and found a Wikipedia giving some more details. So here goes!
Wikipedia opening statement is: that it is a cloud based presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi has a zooming canvas like interface (motion sickness) which allows users to zoom in and out of presentations. It also has an awesome added extra of a 2.5d space on a Z axis

DID YOU KNOW: Prezi was initially developed by a Hungarian architect Adam Somlai-Fischer as an architectural visualisation tool?

http://prezi.com/

 Glogster
I am a huge scrapbooking fan and when I researched a little further I found a glog to be basically a poster making program that allows the user to create an interactive poster to enhance the pleasure of the viewers by inserting images, texts, audio, videos and special effects to create an online masterpiece.
Glogsters have been used to in classrooms to aid teachers in creating dynamic interactive teaching experiences. Glogs can be made private and only accessible to others by the discretion of the teacher. Glogs can be developed over 1 or more sites so if a teacher for example teaches a subject at 3 different schools the teacher is able to get each separate class to interact and produce an collaborative Glog.
 Posters that are created through Glogster can be embedded into wiki’s, blogs and shared on many social networking sites also.

http://www.glogster.com/

References:
Prezi Information Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi
Glogster information Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glogster