Prezi

A PREZI is a new and exciting online tool created to make presentations elaborative and different to the mundane Powerpoint presentations.

I found this quite difficult to comprehend at first, but after much experimentation, I finally worked out how to get it working ! I can understand the concept of why this tool is so useful, it almost takes the guess work out of advertising. This program could almost be used in television commercials.

I tried uploaded the PREZI that I created but it didn't work so here is the link...
http://prezi.com/k-rvfdirichp/21st-century-learning-with-icts/

21st Century Learning with ICT's on Prezi

Playing to Learn? on Prezi

Powerpoint

Powerpoints

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Although I had used Powerpoint presentations before, it's always handy to update your skills and refresh so I created a short little presentation on Powerpoint which is shown above. Once completed in Microsoft Powerpoint, you simply go to www.slideshare.net to upload the powerpoint you just created, then it puts it all together for you and gives you an embedded code to add to your website :)

As I work within the primary school sector, I find that students as young as the prep year are using powerpoint, or beginning to understand the concept of adding text to websites and being able to upload information. The digital natives, having grown up on technology, are using programs as simple as powerpoint in school almost every week as there are Smart boards abundant in each school at present.

They can be used for presentations in group work, or as an assessment near completion of a unit of work to show understanding. They can be incorporated into a higher order of thinking and embeded into a wiki/blog etc. Powerpoints can be informative or informative and used within schools or the community.