Presentation+Tools

//**Presentation Tools**//

Courtesy of: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi
 * **Tool** || **Description** || **Ideas/Examples/Limitations** ||= **Quick-Start Guide** ||
 * = **Prezi** || Prezi is a web based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where users can zoom in and out of a visual map. A path through different objects and frames can be defined, representing the order of the information to be presented. The presentation can be developed in a browser window, then downloaded so that an Internet connection is not needed when showing the presentation.

Learn how to import your PPT slides into Prezi here || * Lesson presentations for your class - great for showing connections and big picture
 * Student presentations on any topic - students need email address to make their own account
 * Can't make a "pretty link" - only way to link to a website is to enter the website address. You can't make text or an image a link (or at least I don't know how).
 * Doesn't play well with other web 2.0 tools i.e. you can embed YouTube Videos but you can't embed other content. || [[file:Prezi Quick Start.pdf]] ||
 * Museum Box || Museum Box allows you to create a presentation about any topic, event, person or time period by placing items in a digital diorama (or museum box). There are eight cubes within a virtual museum box, and text, images, video, and sound related to the topic can be added to each side of the cube.

[] || * Teacher can create student accounts individually or in groups; whole classes can be quickly uploaded using an Excel file
 * Students can present on any topic using a variety of options - text, pictures, video, sound, etc.
 * Students can create museum boxes individually or in groups
 * Teachers can view, manage, evaluate, and provide feedback on student work || [[file:Museum Box Quick Start Guide.pdf]] ||
 * Blabberize || Blabberize is a very easy application that allows you to speak through a picture. Students can manipulate the picture to say what they want it to say. Teachers have used this resource for quick projects such as having students retell a story, book reviews, explain a math or science process, create biographies. The ideas are endless. || * Students can be asked to use text from history to make it come alive!
 * Have students record songs on poems demonstrating their knowledge of a topic and record the creation with Blabberize.
 * Students can be asked to use it to demonstrate their content knowledge.
 * Can be used to incorporate technology into a Reader's Theater activity. || [[file:Blabberize.pdf]] ||


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