Presentations... ✓

Practical Work Nº2 is over now but it gave us a lot of things to have in mind as regards presentations.
We all had to share our work to our mates, and we had the opportunity to learn a lot more about what you can do with Powerpoint and Prezi. This is the good thing about collaborative work: everybody learns from everybody. Plus, we had so much fun!
I attach here the links for you to be able to download the lesson we designed and the two presentations that you need for its development.

The lesson: http://bit.ly/lessoneco2
The Prezi presentation: http://bit.ly/preziweekend
The Powerpoint presentation: http://bit.ly/powerpointweekend

We had to prepare the lesson based on the topic "a typical weekend", which is what everybody is impatiently waiting for. And it's only Tuesday!

Luckily, we did it alright and our teacher Letizia gave us a very positive feedback on our work. Here you have the notes that she took down:

- You took into account the topic you were supposed to deal with in your lesson,
- you made great use of images,
- you used attractive templates,
- you downloaded, adapted and customized games,
- you even designed your own games,
- you recorded your own material and integrated it into the presentation,
- you used humour and music,
- you used animation and gifs,
- you combined technology with more traditional material,
- you created texts: dialogues, diaries and short stories,
- you contextualised the material to the experiences and realities of the secondary school learners,
- you designed tasks that promoted interaction among learners,
- etc., etc., etc...

So, let's keep on working! (I insist... waiting for the weekend!).

Power Point vs. Prezi

We were asked to watch a couple of videos about these two presentation generators and to make a comparison.

I'm posting here one of them because it is hilarious. It is about what NOT to do with a Power Point Presentation.

The thing is, you CAN use some of these features exaggeratedly if you want to make a point, specially if you use humour in your presentation. If we are talking about a formal presentation, in which you speak about a delicate subject, maybe it would be better if you follow Don McMillan advices.

Prezi, in contrast, has two significant advantages: you have endless space to work on (your work will not be reduced to a single slide) and you can make use of the zoom for highlighting information (for example: a part of a picture). Besides, you don't have to worry about the version of Microsoft Office that your learners may have in their netbooks because Prezi needs only a web browser and the Flash component installed (it's hard to find a computer without these two requirements). Not to mention that the animation Prezi offers is much more appealing.

Here you can learn about a couple of Prezi features.

Hope you like it.
See you around!