11 - Presentation Tools - 21 Things for the 21st Century Educator

Presentation Tools

Adding the "Wow" Factor!
Research on effective teaching and learning strategies (Classroom Instruction That Works, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock) has shown that the use of nonlinguistic representations, graphic organizers, note taking, and setting goals/objectives are effective strategies to use for learners.

The use of multimedia or web presentations can address many or all of these strategies.

Pre-Assess your skills for this "Thing"

Before beginning this "Thing", complete the Pre-Assessment of your technology proficiency.

Aligned to NETS-T: 1.b, 1.d, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 3.a, 3.b, 3.c, 3.d, 4.b, 4.d, 5.a, 5.c

Connections to Marzano Strategies: nonlinguistic representations, graphic organizers, note taking, and setting goals/objectives

Prezi

Prezi is an innovative tool which goes beyond standard PowerPoint presentations. This lets you create webbed presentations which are non-linear. Prezi presentations can include pictures, videos, hyperlinks, and more. These are FREE for teachers and those in Education.

Visit the learning center full of quick tutorials to get you up and started, step-by-step and tips for layering and grouping.

Click on this presentation, for a sampling of what I spent 45 minutes creating in Prezi, which is about ZoomIt (introduced below) and recorded with Screencast-o-matic a screen capture tool.

Glogster

Glogster EDU is an ad-FREE site for educators and their classrooms. It is an online place which provides multi-sensory environments for learners to interact and showcase learning in unique ways. This site has been voted the #1 site for media sharing by the AASL (American Association of School Librarians). This is like poster boards on steroids. Students can create book reviews, digital posters, topic explorations, use video, graphics, and text. Primary student users will need help with the number of elements. There is a nice tutorial about Glogster on Slideshare (another of the web 2.0 presenation tools).

To get started you might want to watch Glogster in 90 seconds (YouTube). Or Glogster for Education.

Take a look at the Educator Resource Library provided by Glogster. It is a database of lesson plans, rubrics, standards, and great student examples.

Here's a glog by Carolyn Notice that you can keep it private, and just share the link with your friends.

ZoomIt

This is a presentation tool that lets you zoom in on your screen, and also annotate. This is extremely handy during presentations, showing something to your students from your computer with a projector or even on a smartboard. This works only with the Windows environment. It is a Free and quick download from the Internet. It allows the user to use the Control key with the numbers 1, 2, or 3 to zoom into the screen, turn the mouse into a marker, annotate, or put a timer on the screen. This is a WINDOWS application only.

Note: If you have a Macintosh computer, you can use the green Zoom button in Mac OSX programs, or a variety of programs titled: Right Zoom or free image zoom 1.0.
To download ZoomIt for the Windows environment, click here to be taken to the ZoomIt website, or simply download the file below.

To install Zoomit: Download the zip file to the desktop, double click to open the ZoomIt folder and unzip the contents, drag the ZoomIt.exe file to the desktop. When you double click on the ZoomIt.exe file to launch a small icon will show up on the task bar. If you right-click on it, you will see the control key preferences shown in the presentation above under Prezi.

More ZoomIt Shortcuts

Ctrl + left click and drag = BOX
Shift + left click and drag = LINE
Shift + Ctrl + left click and drag = ARROR
Tab + left click and drag = OVAL

21things Hands-On Activity and Assignment:

1. Before beginning this "Thing", complete the Pre-Assessmentof your technology proficiency.

2. Create a Presentation in Prezi for a content area you will be teaching next month. Focus on the main idea that you want the students to learn.
   a. Identify the curriculum standard you will be meeting and put that in a text box.
   b. Insert at least one image.
   c. Take a screen shot of a zoomed out view of your Prezi, save it and put the screen shot and the URL in your portfolio.
   d. Write a reflection - 1) compare and contrast Prezi to PowerPoint; or 2) how you can use it with students in your classroom, what projects they might be able to do with it; or 3) how this presentation tool can help your students process some content which they have difficulty learning.

3. Open a document or web site with content you will be using for teaching something. Zoom-out on the presentation and take a screenshot of the entire presentation. Paste this into the portfolio along with your explanation of how this might help some of your diverse learners.

4. After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing".

Post-Assess your skills for this "Thing"

After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Self Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing". (This is part of your hands-on activity/assignment).

Additional Resources:

1. Slideshare - a great slide sharing site where you can upload presentations, share them, along with documents and videos.
2. Kizoa - create beautiful shows, with music, effects and transitions.
3. Shwup - a site for creating private slide shows where you can collaborate and leave comments.
4. PhotoPeach - see our Digital Storytelling 'thing'
5. Animoto - Very popular with students and lets you create animated shows
6. Vuvox - create beautiful slide shows

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