Prezi+Glogster: Group 3 Technologies

Managing E-Learning on Prezi

To effortlessly sum this resource into one word, I would say: FUN!
As explained from the Prezi founders: "Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. " [Prezi, 2011]

Ways that this can be used during classroom activities:

• Simple way of showing learners the focus of the term, lesson, activity etc with a result of including ICT skills.
• Can be shown to the class within a Multimedia lesson, allowing the students to create their own prezi.
• Can be used within perfomances on stage and drama presentations by firstly engaging the audience into the concept of the act.

PMI scaffolding procedure:

PLUS

• Fun, exciting, new technology that engages the audience into the information that is shown within the Prezi. 
• Easy to use, uses little time to create and can be placed onto other websites without hassle.

MINUS

• Can affect those who can get motion sickness or epilepsy as the Prezi presentation are designed to continue rotating around on the screen.
• Could possibly become frustrating for kinaesthetic learners if they can only view the information within the Prezi and can not actively become involved.
• Lower Learners may struggle if they can not read properly or understand some words within the slide. Learning Managers would need to cater for this circumstance.

INTERESTING

• The simplicity of this software is extroardinary. The prezi team have kept it simple with only a limited amount of options displayed on the editing screen, making it quite easy to use.
• Caters for higher order thinking by allowing the students to show creativity and knowledge through the use of multimedia.

Glogster is a multimedia resource is designed to be an interactive poster that can display pictures, videos, text, and sounds to share with learners or friends. This is a glogster that I had quickly made to show an understanding of what a glogster can do. It is a very simple structure of what can consist on your personal poster.

Ways this can be used in the classroom:

• Assessment tasks for students a result of engaging the learners in multimedia studies. Possible example for a grade 8 assessment task.
• Entertaining way for learning manager to show learners new information within the classroom.
• Collaborative group work creating a glogster for a class activity.

PMI scaffolding procedure:

PLUS

• Engaging and simple to use. Learners can easily use this software without confusion.
• The current glogster shown above took less than an hour to making it ideal for learning managers and the concerns of time management.
• Can incorporate movies from youtube very quickly and add images and sounds from the users computer efficiently with little concerns of not being uploaded to the glogster.

MINUS

• There is so many options that the user can do with this software.
• Can become distracting for learners quite easily.
• Learning manager would need make a broad statement of the certain topic that they would like the learners to do if this were used as a result of a learning experience as the possibilities are endless.

INTERESTING

• Enjoyable for all learners.

References:
Prezi Presentation derived from:
http://prezi.com/your/

Prezi Quote [Prezi, 2011]
http://prezi.com/about/

Glogster Poster derived from:
http://sammiegeddes.glogster.com/dashboard/

Youtube clips within Glogster:
Under the Sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqdexBnNkM

A to Z Sea Animals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_QhOj_FLw

Life under sea: Sea Lovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQH4gu5bFmk&feature=related

Jellyfish picture:
C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures