tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post3228477652409448485..comments2024-03-24T02:20:49.965-05:00Comments on iTeach and iLearn: Alternatives to PowerPointDave Mulderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395580054297587342noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-14187198996398237052013-06-29T12:53:56.059-05:002013-06-29T12:53:56.059-05:00its very nice article very helpful
suwwa.comits very nice article very helpful<br />suwwa.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14537457432438045380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-90989435908755500492012-11-19T18:40:13.376-06:002012-11-19T18:40:13.376-06:00I think you're absolutely right. I know that w...I think you're absolutely right. I know that when I make presentations to give in classes, I'm already looking at the slides and asking myself "why" what I put there is there. If I can't think of a good reason, I take it out.<br /><br />That mentality (and it's descendants) will be needed one day! ;)jjasper123https://www.blogger.com/profile/05904084883617110446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-10380322534640404262012-11-19T13:19:08.155-06:002012-11-19T13:19:08.155-06:00Also, I probably should have said in the original ...Also, I probably should have said in the original post that the Prezi example I made *intentionally* had a lot of zooming and panning, which we talked about as probably being a weak use of the tool. :-)Dave Mulderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395580054297587342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-15356484253154529932012-11-19T13:17:29.876-06:002012-11-19T13:17:29.876-06:00Not boring--just self-aware. :-)
Like I said in t...Not boring--just self-aware. :-)<br /><br />Like I said in the Death by PowerPoint piece, it's not that anti-PPt...it's more about knowing the time and place for it. Part of the trouble--for PowerPoint and Keynote and OpenOffice and all the rest--is that they become a crutch for bad teaching. Lectures can be amazing and engaging in the hand of a master instructor...and they can be awful and tedious when it's just an avalanche of content without narrative. <br /><br />PowerPoint, like any tech tool, can be used well, or used poorly. The linearity can lend really well to building a case or providing that narrative structure. But bullet-pointing a class into submission is just bad pedagogy. (My 2¢...) :-)Dave Mulderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395580054297587342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-71714212647612412392012-11-19T12:22:49.138-06:002012-11-19T12:22:49.138-06:00I think you hit the nail on the head with that. I ...I think you hit the nail on the head with that. I know that when I'm taking notes in a class, I prefer what you explain yourself doing. I think what I like about Powerpoint/Keynote (rather, "linear") presentations are just that - that they *are* linear. It's probably more of a preference or individual thing that a universal rule, but I think that I can process things better when everything is moving the same direction. Call me boring. :Pjjasper123https://www.blogger.com/profile/05904084883617110446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-10566126371007635832012-11-19T10:12:19.886-06:002012-11-19T10:12:19.886-06:00Agreed...that's my biggest problem with it. We...Agreed...that's my biggest problem with it. We have to be really, really careful not to zoom for the sake of zooming, right? ;-)<br /><br />I think the new templates with the update to the Prezi editor help some with that--less of the random flying around.<br /><br />Overall, I still think I prefer Prezi to PowerPoint. Here's an article I got published way back in 2008 about "Death by PowerPoint..." http://csionline.org/CSTblog/index.php/home/single_entry/death_by_powerpoint/Dave Mulderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395580054297587342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-2711695311494533392012-11-19T09:48:20.161-06:002012-11-19T09:48:20.161-06:00Keynote is a wonderful program, but of course, it&...Keynote is a wonderful program, but of course, it's Mac only.<br /><br />I like the concept of Prezi but I can't stand being given a presentation with it. I agree that it can be very easily too much. Spin here, swoosh there, headache everywhere. It's almost to a point where it moves for the sake of moving and not for the sake of the presentation, and that's not good.jjasper123https://www.blogger.com/profile/05904084883617110446noreply@blogger.com