I am a self-proclaimed Power Point Queen. I use these presentations to enhance lectures or visualize the ideas that I want to share with my students. I am a little apprehensive to learn a new program because I am so familiar with Power Point, but understand the benefits that the new programs offer. I am looking forward to learning a new program to make my presentations more intriguing for my students.
After watching the tutorials of Prezi I was very excited to create my own presentation. It seemed very easy and like there was a lot of help available. I watched some YouTube videos of Prezis and thought I would try to make my own. It was a little more difficult than I thought. Prezi uses a format that I am completely unfamiliar with. My biggest problem came from making frames. I could not figure out how to adjust the frames to go around phrases I had written. Then, when I wanted to set a course for my presentation to follow, I had to use the mismatched frames I had created. I want to spend more time investigating this tool because I saw evidence of some very nice, interesting presentations that were created using this program. I like the non-linear setup and freedom this program allows. I think I will be able to find an answer to my problem because there are several tutorials and examples available on the internet. I do not know if I would use this for my course project because I am so unfamiliar with the format and would be afraid something would go wrong and I would not know how to fix it
Cool Tools for School offered a very user friendly presentation tool called Prezentit. I was easily able to figure out how to create slides and add information, pictures, and interesting text. I could not easily find tutorials, but was able to navigate pretty easily through the site. The setup was more Power Point-like so I was much more comfortable creating a presentation using this program. I liked the graphics and background choices. They were of a higher quality than those of Power Point. I did have some trouble importing pictures though. I am a little worried about this because I will definitely want imported pictures for my Course Project.
I will probably use Prezentit for my course presentation. I am looking forward to getting to know the program better as I build my own presentation week by week. I am not giving up on Prezi though. I will spend more time learning to use this program so that I can implement it in my classroom.
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Mackenzie,
ReplyDeleteI also love PowerPoint and find that you can do most anything that these other programs are offering. The only exception would be collaborating on the same document. There are a few really neat options that some of the web products can offer; a lot with animations and transitions. I too have tried using Prezi. Although I haven't given up on it entirely, it's not the most user friendly of programs. I really like the way that it automatically transitions from area to area through the "path" function.
Good luck with your exploring and integrating! :)
Heather
I used Prezi also and found it freeing in some ways and hindering in the formatting of words. I like the slide transitions and freedom of space. I used it as a presentation model. My students are living how it makes slides flip.
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