My favorite tools that we explored this semester were the Prezi website and the Glogster website. To present information to my students, I am always looking for new and innovative ways besides the 'ole PowerPoint. As a music educator, I plan to integrate the Prezi tool to introduce new concepts, skills, and other information. Also, Prezi is a great professional tool. Even this summer, I'm giving a presentation at a Kansas Bandmasters Association conference in Wichita and I plan to use Prezi to give it. What is so great about it is the cool way it moves from one point to another. With a power point, moving from slide to slide with the same format can get boring fast. With prezi, the viewer zooms in and out, jumps from point to point, and is whirled around to connect all the big presentation points.
I really loved glogster because it was so easy to use and is really versatile. I know that since I had no trouble using it, students will have no trouble using it, as each generation is more tech-savvy than the previous. I love all the choices of available backgrounds, signs, bubbles, and the potential to add pictures and videos. It is a great assessment tool for teachers as well as a fun project creator for students.
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