Sunday, July 3, 2011

Presentation 2.0 Tools

 
Tool
FormatPixel
Prezi
Preezo
Glogster
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Create your own online magazines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customize their appearance. Move, insert or delete pages to create multi-page presentations.
Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide.
Create professional quality presentation. Access them from any computer. Reuse images or the content of entire slides from easy to use galleries. Collaborate on a centralized web document.
Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create multimedia pages. Embed into any webpage.
Ease of Use
Medium, I would compare this to working with Microsoft Publisher the first time without any lessons or tutorials. You have to just ‘play’ with this one.
After the tutorial it was easy and fun!
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After the tutorials it was easy and fun!
Tutorials
None
Yes: 1 video and three lessons on how to use.
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Yes, how to videos.
Cost
Free! With enough space for one to two projects with the option to upgrade for more space.

Teacher and Students can get 500mb of storage space and most of the member perks for Free or for $60 a year 2000mb of storage space with support and the ability to work offline.  
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Free basic or $99 for a teacher and 200 students which is perfect for middle grades teachers with 100+ students.
Accessibility
The projects are viewable online with a host provided link.
Prezi’s can be viewed online using a link provided by the host. With the free account you must be online however with the $60 per year account you can use the software offline.
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With teacher and student accounts this is very accessible.
Star Rating
3/5 Stars
This is an option to create and online eBook with clickable links.
4/5 Stars
Loved the visual components of this tool. Breaks up the standard transition from slide to slide.
0/5 Stars
N/A due to the fact that it is a link to other links.
4/5 Stars
This is great it also breaks up the standard transitions of moving from slide to slide. Awesome that it has students accounts option.
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