Glogster
Check out my Glogster, containing a PMI on Glogster! You can enlarge by clicking on the logo.
Or visit: http://www.glogster.com/sylvs/glogster/g-6lsorbm1p88d05g52l2ffa0
Glogster is a virtual poster creator which integrates text, video, audio and graphics to create a visually engaging page. Posters are useful for their visual display of messages, heightened through technology, by enhancing the amount of information through linking to other sources. Glogster can be used to enhance student knowledge of multimodal literacy and how messages are constructed and communicated. This can be achieved through lessons, where students explore the use of images and text to persuade their audience and then critically analyse how the media also uses this approach. Glogster can also be used to convey information in an engaging way, gathering resources in one place, on one page making it easily accessible by other learners. Students are able to be creative in their design of the page, having full control over most elements (Karchmer-Klein & Shinas, 2011).
I found glogster to be a simple and useful site, despite a few difficulties navigating the interface. It was quick and easy to populate the page with graphics and create an aesthetically appealing and neat poster.
Prezi
Click on the arrows to follow a learning path, which will teach you about the positive, minus and interesting points about prezi and how it can be used within a teaching context. I found prezi to be easy to use, adding limited text and pictures and creating a professional presentation.
Powerpoint
PowerPoint’s accessibility and flexibility has made it a key player in many speeches, assignments and presentations. Despite new innovative tools, the familiarity of PowerPoint makes it a seemingly ‘easy’ option when it comes to integrating pictures and emphasising points. The simplicity also makes it easy to use in a variety of contexts such as picture slideshows, the collation of stories and presentations, work portfolios and even to record a simple ‘podcast’ by recording audio for each slide. However, PowerPoint has attracted numerous criticisms for being distracting to learning, whereby teachers feel compelled to follow the slides in a linear fashion. Often students use PowerPoint because ‘they go with speeches’ and then copy large amounts of text onto slides, adding animations which often detract from the speaking taking place. Some of these issues are discussed in the infamous ‘Death by PowerPoint’ video which you can watch below. However, despite its criticism, PowerPoint continues to be an easy tool to operate and is flexible enough to be manipulated for a range of contexts.
Check out my Glogster, containing a PMI on Glogster! You can enlarge by clicking on the logo.
Or visit: http://www.glogster.com/sylvs/glogster/g-6lsorbm1p88d05g52l2ffa0
Glogster is a virtual poster creator which integrates text, video, audio and graphics to create a visually engaging page. Posters are useful for their visual display of messages, heightened through technology, by enhancing the amount of information through linking to other sources. Glogster can be used to enhance student knowledge of multimodal literacy and how messages are constructed and communicated. This can be achieved through lessons, where students explore the use of images and text to persuade their audience and then critically analyse how the media also uses this approach. Glogster can also be used to convey information in an engaging way, gathering resources in one place, on one page making it easily accessible by other learners. Students are able to be creative in their design of the page, having full control over most elements (Karchmer-Klein & Shinas, 2011).
I found glogster to be a simple and useful site, despite a few difficulties navigating the interface. It was quick and easy to populate the page with graphics and create an aesthetically appealing and neat poster.
Prezi
Click on the arrows to follow a learning path, which will teach you about the positive, minus and interesting points about prezi and how it can be used within a teaching context. I found prezi to be easy to use, adding limited text and pictures and creating a professional presentation.
Powerpoint
Positive | Minus | Interesting |
Easy to use Available offline Can be shared and uploaded on programs such as slideshare Can add images, audio and video Supports speaking- by emphasising points and adding visual interest | ‘Death by PowerPoint’ - becomes overpowering - can be disengaging where too much information in placed on slides or presented in a disengaging manner Can be time consuming Animations can be distracting | Use to create: slideshows, class radio, portfolios, digital resources and webquests Continues to remain a popular tool due to familiarity |
PowerPoint’s accessibility and flexibility has made it a key player in many speeches, assignments and presentations. Despite new innovative tools, the familiarity of PowerPoint makes it a seemingly ‘easy’ option when it comes to integrating pictures and emphasising points. The simplicity also makes it easy to use in a variety of contexts such as picture slideshows, the collation of stories and presentations, work portfolios and even to record a simple ‘podcast’ by recording audio for each slide. However, PowerPoint has attracted numerous criticisms for being distracting to learning, whereby teachers feel compelled to follow the slides in a linear fashion. Often students use PowerPoint because ‘they go with speeches’ and then copy large amounts of text onto slides, adding animations which often detract from the speaking taking place. Some of these issues are discussed in the infamous ‘Death by PowerPoint’ video which you can watch below. However, despite its criticism, PowerPoint continues to be an easy tool to operate and is flexible enough to be manipulated for a range of contexts.
References:
Karchmer-Klein, R., & Shinas, V. (2011). Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy. Retrieved December 4, 2011, from readwritethink: http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/using-glogster-support-multimodal-30789.html
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