Week #5: Reflection 4
Group 3 Tools
Present/Mashup/Collate
This week we focussed on tools that
facilitate the presentation of information. Three tools were recommended:
PowerPoint (ugh! so boring!), Prezi (sounds like a whacky version of PowerPoint),
and Glogster (you lost me at scrapbooking). To be honest, I thought I was a
fairly proficient user of PowerPoint. When completing the engagement activity however,
I explored some of suggestions in the technical manual and was quite surprised
by the possibilities I had never considered; PowerPoint isn’t so boring after
all! Glogster was completely new to me,
and although I found its features pretty cool, I find it hard to work in such a
non-linear manner. I decided to focus my
attentions on Prezi, somewhere in between my comfort zone PowerPoint and the
totally crazy Glogster.
I started out by signing up to
Prezi, which was amazingly simple (and free!).
That was a win already. I soon discovered that Prezi is essentially a
non-linear version of PowerPoint. There
were some basic templates that were very useful, and gave me ideas about how I
could present my information. I could still structure and plan my information
and the general experience (I always write outlines for any sort of
presentation/training session etc), but then I needed to find a logical but
interesting way to flow the presentation.
A feature of Prezi that I really
appreciated was how easy it was to share the Prezi, and the number of options that
were available for sharing; I was able download a copy to my desktop at no
charge! I am a linear thinker/learner, and even I began to see the benefits of
having an interactive and unstructured way to let students explore a topic in
the sequence in a way that makes the most sense to them.
SAMR Applications
I found producing this week’s SAMR
quite difficult, as this tool is so similar in concept to PowerPoint that I
found myself stuck in a bit of a thinking rut! I’m looking forward to seeing
other peoples SAMR for this Group to help me broaden my horizons!
My Prezi
Below
is the Prezi I have created. I chose to do an introduction into the IUPAC
naming convention for organic chemistry. This is the most challenging
tool I have used so far. I think this was because of a combination of
being rusty on subject content, and being a linear thinker I kept just wanting
to put things in linear steps. The challenge certainly wasn't in actually
using the tool, it is quite intuitive to use. I've made a commitment to myself
to use Prezi at least once more in my blog this semester to make sure I get the
hang of it!
- Isabel -
References:
Prezi Accessed:
06/04/15. Retrieved From:
MindMup Accessed:
06/04/15. Retrieved From:
A Brief
Overview of Learning Theory. Accessed 13/03/15. Retrieved from: https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=15608
