This week we looked at Group Three Tools which were tools
for Presenting. They include PowerPoint, Prezi and Glogster. These tools
can be used to present, collate and arrange information in an effective way.
They are all interactive and can integrate text, Still Images, Digital Videos
and Audio Files.
Powerpoint
PowerPoint is a simple Presentation tool that is normally previous
loaded onto a computer with the Microsoft Office package. This tool is easy to
navigate and can be used to at a basic level for beginners or an advanced level
for the more innovative users. PowerPoint is a popular Presentation tool for personal, commercial and informative uses. Below are some creative ideas to use PowerPoint
in the classroom.
- Flash Cards - Create Flashcard presentations for individual and group reinforcement. You can create a template and choose whether you or your students will insert the words or phrases. Topics may include: reinforcing math concepts; practicing parts of speech; practicing spelling; reinforcing story problems; and reinforcing numbers, letters, or colors.
- Field Trip Slide Shows - Develop field trip slide shows to review and apply knowledge learned on a field trip. Students can work together to make a slide show that presents what they saw, as well as what they learned.
- Autobiographical Stories - Students can create short autobiographical stories about themselves. Scanned photos can be inserted for interest. Once the slides are complete, you can put them together in a presentation to show an audience, such as an open house or parent night.
- Interactive Book Reports - Have students create a PowerPoint presentation about books they read.
- Music Class Recitals - For music teachers, PowerPoint is a useful tool for creating slide shows of student recitals. During a recital, take pictures of the students while they are performing and record a small portion of their music. On slides, include both each student's picture and music.
- Group Slide Shows - Give your students a topic (such as zoo animals) and tell them to choose parts of the topic to focus on (such as specific zoo animals). Have students research their assigned portions of the topic and develop slides to serve as a part of a group presentation about the topic.
- Poetry Readings - Students can create slides exhibiting their personal poetry along with a voice recording.
- Science Presentations - Use PowerPoint to teach processes and how things work. Teachers or students can add additional items to a diagram to illustrate how a process grows and changes. Science principles work well using this format.
- Student Portfolios - PowerPoint can be used to create portfolios of student work.
- Class Yearbook-Type Presentations - Collect photos; information about special events; examples of class and student projects, etc. throughout the year and create a year-in-review presentation.
Tuscaloosa City Schools. (2002). Using
PowerPoint in the classroom. Retrieved from
Following, is a slide that I devised on a chosen country, The Philippines. It demonstrates the use of text and a Still Image.
Prezi
Prezi is another form of a Presentation tool. I found this
tool quite time consuming and unclear on how to navigate. Prezi is a free online
program that develops presentations on an endless page. Its main feature is the
zoom in/zoom out tool which takes the viewer on a journey through the
presentation in the layout of a map. It can contain text, Still Images and
Digital Videos. It has been hinted that the Prezi tool may be replacing
PowerPoint in the future as it continues to develop and improve.
Below are 13
interesting ways to use Prezi in the classroom
1 - Zooming into details of a picture
2 - Dynamic Venn Diagram
3 - Embed YouTube Videos
4 - Get Students to make a Prezi
5 - Build up a Prezi over the duration of a topic Start with a topic
heading
6 - Use Prezi as a mind map
7 - Prezi for vocabulary
8 - Global Learning
9 - Have Students Create Graphic Organizers to Understand &
Represent Thinking
10 - Make Cool Adverts in minutes
11 - Using Prezi to Study
12 - Upload documents for class discussion
13 - Using Photographs
j3pr0x. (2011). 13
interesting ways to use Prezi in the classroom. Retrieved from
Here is a Prezi that I generated about the things I like.
Glogster
Glogster is the third presentation tool that I examined, which enables interactivity and multimodal (text, audio, images and movie) sources (Fasso, 2012). I
decided to investigate Glogster, as it was a tool that I had not explored
before like the program PowerPoint and was simple to navigate, unlike Prezi
(another presentation device).
Glogster
is an online interactive poster that incorporates all forms of multimedia to
engage a targeted audience. It is an excellent tool for different types of
learners as it supports visual and auditory learners. Glogster can be used
facilitate higher order thinking by comprehending gathered information and then
presenting it creatively.
The
Glogster program can be utilised in a classroom environment to encourage
self-expression and creativity, emphasise visual literacy skills, communicate
and advertise messages/ideas/beliefs to a targeted audience, and to promote
group work constructively. This tool can be used to both communicate
information to students and as an assessment task for students to demonstrate
understanding. It can also be enjoyed at home, as class newsletters and reports
can be replaced with interactive posters; informing parents of upcoming class
work, school events and even results.
A
specific activity that I would incorporate into my teaching content to
demonstrate an effective application of Glogster involves asking students to
create a poster on an actor; featuring multimedia aspects such as still images,
video footage and/or audio files. This then will be presented to the class.
Glogster
is a secure website where pages can be set to private mode resulting in
students being able to operate in a safe, closed environment.
Click this link to see my post about my new Glogster
References
Fasso, W.
(2012). Group 3 tools. Retrieved from CQUniversity, EDED20491 ICTs for
Learning
Design, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=254732
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