Power of the Presentations
Do you need to present a project to a group of coworkers or to a a group of classmates? There are many different ways to presents your project on many different websites. I'm here today to give you some insight on a few different websites to make your presentation the best It could be.
PowerPoint by Microsoft Office was very popular back in the day. Up until Google created Google Slides, Microsoft Office PowerPoint has been in its shadow. "5 Reasons to Replace PowerPoint with Google Slides" written by Joshua Kim, talks about why you should leave Microsoft Office in the past. Kim came up with 5 different ways that he will try to persuade everyone to switch over, his first reason talks about collaboration. With Google Slides, you can work ttogether with other people while not being with them. "The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point" (Kim, 2015). This way it's easy to work as a group and communication with someone while being on the same page as your presentation. The second reason was Google Slides makes your presentation look more cleaner. PowerPoint has so many different options on editing and creating a fancy slide and having It loaded with cool features. With all of that freedom, you are more likely to get carried away and clutter your presentation and make It look sloppy. Google has a simple UI which makes It hard to create an over-edited presentation. Reason number three was allowing you to work and present your presentation without being online. "With the Slides app installed, and the settings set correctly in Google Drive, it is now possible to view, edit, and run Google Slides presentations when offline" (Kim, 2015). Reason four was being able to access the presentation on any device that you own. You can use Google Slides on your phone, on your iPad, on your Mac, etc. Since It is run by google, It is more accessible on devices over Microsoft PowerPoint. Finally, Kim's final reason is that It had easy web publishing and sharing. It is much more simple to share a Google Slides presentation that It is to share a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
Another presentation website is Haiku Deck. A free iTunes app, available on the iPad. Haiku deck is easy to use, which an article by George Williams, "Use Haiku Deck for Simple, Elegant Presentations" With Haiku Deck, It limits you to what you can put on a slide. Making sure that you are keeping your slides small and to the point. No one wants to read or watch a presentation that has a novel on one slide. "You are restricted to two lines of text or a bullet list of no more than 5 items" (Williams, 2013). You can also search images through the app without having to search for a photo on a separate page and copy and pasting It or saving It an uploading It onto the page. Overall Williams talks about how easy It is to use Haiku Deck.
Prezi, is also a known website for making presentations. Ned Potter wrote an article about how to use Prezi, "Your essential 'how-to' guide to using Prezi in an academic environment". Prezi can be started by starting from scratch or by starting from a template. Prezi is more of like a show with your presentation. You can take your audience more on an engaged trip through your presentation. Potter goes very into depth about everything you need to know about Prezi in his article, everything from the straightens to the tips on how to use It.
In my class, we learned about many different presentation websites, the ones talked about above were ones that we went over as well. Each website creates presentations in their own unique ways. I personally use Google Slides, due to the fact that that is what I used while growing up through school. The simplicity of It was something that I felt so comfortable with. I was not into all of the transitions and add ons, and with Google Slides, It is hard to find out where all of these secrets are, which make It easier to keep It simple and clean.
'Untangling The Web' by Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow, have an entire chapter on presentation tools. They talk about how presentations went from being the long boring presentations, where all of the information was on a slide, and everything was read. Those are the presentations that were hard to get through without falling asleep a couple times. It gives insight on a couple different pages and sites that you can create a presentation without making the audience fall asleep.
PowerPoint by Microsoft Office was very popular back in the day. Up until Google created Google Slides, Microsoft Office PowerPoint has been in its shadow. "5 Reasons to Replace PowerPoint with Google Slides" written by Joshua Kim, talks about why you should leave Microsoft Office in the past. Kim came up with 5 different ways that he will try to persuade everyone to switch over, his first reason talks about collaboration. With Google Slides, you can work ttogether with other people while not being with them. "The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point" (Kim, 2015). This way it's easy to work as a group and communication with someone while being on the same page as your presentation. The second reason was Google Slides makes your presentation look more cleaner. PowerPoint has so many different options on editing and creating a fancy slide and having It loaded with cool features. With all of that freedom, you are more likely to get carried away and clutter your presentation and make It look sloppy. Google has a simple UI which makes It hard to create an over-edited presentation. Reason number three was allowing you to work and present your presentation without being online. "With the Slides app installed, and the settings set correctly in Google Drive, it is now possible to view, edit, and run Google Slides presentations when offline" (Kim, 2015). Reason four was being able to access the presentation on any device that you own. You can use Google Slides on your phone, on your iPad, on your Mac, etc. Since It is run by google, It is more accessible on devices over Microsoft PowerPoint. Finally, Kim's final reason is that It had easy web publishing and sharing. It is much more simple to share a Google Slides presentation that It is to share a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
Another presentation website is Haiku Deck. A free iTunes app, available on the iPad. Haiku deck is easy to use, which an article by George Williams, "Use Haiku Deck for Simple, Elegant Presentations" With Haiku Deck, It limits you to what you can put on a slide. Making sure that you are keeping your slides small and to the point. No one wants to read or watch a presentation that has a novel on one slide. "You are restricted to two lines of text or a bullet list of no more than 5 items" (Williams, 2013). You can also search images through the app without having to search for a photo on a separate page and copy and pasting It or saving It an uploading It onto the page. Overall Williams talks about how easy It is to use Haiku Deck.
In my class, we learned about many different presentation websites, the ones talked about above were ones that we went over as well. Each website creates presentations in their own unique ways. I personally use Google Slides, due to the fact that that is what I used while growing up through school. The simplicity of It was something that I felt so comfortable with. I was not into all of the transitions and add ons, and with Google Slides, It is hard to find out where all of these secrets are, which make It easier to keep It simple and clean.
'Untangling The Web' by Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow, have an entire chapter on presentation tools. They talk about how presentations went from being the long boring presentations, where all of the information was on a slide, and everything was read. Those are the presentations that were hard to get through without falling asleep a couple times. It gives insight on a couple different pages and sites that you can create a presentation without making the audience fall asleep. - slideshow.net
- easy overhead projector
- shows handwritten or typed acetate slides
- upload and share presentations around the globe
- polleverywhere.com
- mobile devices
- get responses by the use of text message
- easy to connect the teacher with the class
- voicethread.com
- new features every time you use It
- sharing photos and videos online, with the ability to comment and share
- usable for all grade levels
- prezi.com
- captures audiences attention
- open canvas or template
- sharing and viewing others slides easily
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