Book Week is finally over and so I can hopefully get back to my weekly tasks.
I admit I do use PowerPoint as a tool in my work but very often not in it's true form as a presentation.
It is funny, I actually found and showed the Don McMillan "Life after death by PowerPoint" to 2 of my older classes just last week - and there it was on the Prezi site. Hopefully made the point to the kids!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck
Anyway, I have had a go creating a prezi - it was easy to use - really quite intuitive - but I would need to play with it a lot more before I am able to create something that I am more happy with.
http://prezi.com/_au6nmpfpr1z/wilfrid-gordon-mcdonald-partridge/
I do like it though and will consider signing up at a higher level. I still feel a bit odd about having my work published so publically - for a range of reasons I suppose - I'm fairly private but also because I don't think my work would be much use to anyone else but me - nothing new, different or special.
Anyway, as an aside - I decided to write some work in Google docs, last week only to find that it is blocked at DECS sites. It took me a while (admittedly while panicking) to realise that was the problem because it wasn't the usual blocked page - rather the not available one. Luckily I was able to override. However, this is something that really needs to be looked at if we are going to start using these tools in our work and with kids at school!!
In response to your comment, I have heard of Edmodo and have looked briefly at it already. One of my more adventurous colleagues and I are planning on playing with it more next term. She has already had a bit of a go and so hopefully she'll be able to help me out - otherwise, we'll muddle through together! Thanks for the suggestion.
Awesome Sue! I had a good laugh at that youtube video, sooo funny. Your prezi was fantastic btw, I wasn't overwhelmed by animation or confused by graphs or bored by excessive bullet points or anything!! It's a good point about assessing the kinds of websites you allow access too, I think many schools will need to address this and quickly if they are to make use of the emerging technologies their students are already using.
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