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= **Powerful Presentations ** = = **By Laura Lambert Bennett ** = **March 20, 2011 **

====If you haven’t heard of PowerPoint, you’ve been living in a fall-out shelter since World War II. However, PowerPoint is //almost// a thing of the past. With a strong need for presentations that are portable, user-friendly, and engaging, there are many companies willing to help us fill the void. Zoho Show and Prezi, are just a few. These are user-friendly applications that allow you to build engaging presentation for your students to view. If you’d like they can make a presentation themselves. They can collaborate online to build the presentation and share them too. If you’re a die-hard fan of PowerPoint or that’s what you love, there is also Slideshare. It is an online site that allows you to share your PowerPoints and Keynotes with the world. ====

[|**Zoho Show**]
====Zoho Show is a great tool for creating and sharing online presentations. You can build a presentation on their website. The slides you or you students build can be shared with a select few or you can publish with its own URL. (Zoho Show, n.d.) If you already have your own website or a website for your classroom, you can embed your Zoho Show. (Spick, 2010) It’s free to sign up. If you want to meet multiple people online or build presentations online together there is an upgrade free. ==== ==== Ø If you’d like to build your own Zoho Show, check out this [|Wiki/Zoho]“How To”page. ====

Ø Nice [|article]with a quick overview of Zoho Show.
==== Ø [|Recent additions to Zoho]. ====

[|**Prezi**]
====Another application for creating presentations and posting them can be found on [|Prezi]. This fabulous tool allows you to write your text and zoom in to various words or letters. Once zoomed in you can type in more information or put in an image. You can zoom back out to continue to the next slide. Your presentation will be public unless you pay for the service.(Teresa, n.d.) ==== ==== Ø While doing research on Prezi I found a very awesome Prezi presentation on why you should be using it as a teaching tool. [|Click here]. ====

Ø Another “How To” by the Prezi Company with video and step by step directions. [|Click here].
==== Ø Looking for a reason to use Prezi instead of PowerPoint. This article gave a few good reasons why. [|Click here]. ====

[|**Slideshare**]
====Last up is Slideshare, another online site for uploading your presentations and sharing them. You create your presentation in PowerPoint or Keynote and upload them to the Slideshare site. They can be viewed privately or publicly. For private sharing there is a fee. . Your presentation can be embedded in your own website page, Facebook page, or Linked profile page. (Harbison, 2009) You also have access to everyone else’s slideshows on the website. ==== ==== Ø Visit the Slideshare website to learn more about why you should use [|Slideshare] . ==== ==== Ø <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Would you like to sign up for a Slideshare account? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[|Click here] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">. ==== ==== Ø <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">“SlideShare has added Web conferencing to its site for posting, viewing, rating and commenting on business presentations, documents and videos.” “The new SlideShare service, called  ==== ==== <span style="color: #1a61a0; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">Zipcast <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">, is designed to be a simpler alternative to existing Web conferencing applications.”(Perez, 2011) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[|Read more….] ==== ==== Ø <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">“As with a YouTube video, you can embed your slide show to your heart's content all over cyberspace. The embed code also gives a link back to your channel which means if someone ==== ====<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">downloads your presentation his or her readers will also be able to link back to your channel. With a few clicks, you can also upload the slideshow to a Blogger or WordPress site.”(Malo, ====

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**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Enhancing Learning in the 21st Century through Powerful Presentations **
====<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We, educators, are always searching for ways to engage our students in what we are trying to teach them. We need to be aware that they live in a multimedia, technological age. Information is at their fingertips, literally. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Having an engaging presentation, with audio clips, website links, and video are valuable teaching tools. These online tools can also help our student collaborate on projects and publish online presentations. “Zoho allow(s) multiple users to edit documents, spreadsheets, or presentations (depending on the tool) at the same time. These applications allow users to collaborate on projects in real time, from different places without having to email files back and forth to one another.”(Barcelona, 2010) ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Don’t get me wrong PowerPoint still has it’s throne at the top as a presentation tool. According to Ahmadi, Dileepan, and Raiszadeh(2007), in their study on the usefulness of presentation technologies in the classroom, “Over 73% of the students agreed or strongly agreed that PowerPoint slides are helpful in understanding the course material.”(para. 12) I, myself, find PowerPoint engaging, but only when I have the slide printout in front of me, so I can take notes. Having that slide on the internet with access to it from anywhere, at any time, that might change my need for paper. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For this post I didn't discuss what PowerPoint is and what it is used for. The reason why? If you don't know PowerPoint, then you could probably answer the question my mother recently recieved from one of her students. "What were the dinosaurs like when you were born?" ==== <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">

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**__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Reference List __**
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ahmadi, M., Dileepan, P., & Raiszadeh, F. (July 2007). Is PowerPoint evil? Students' perceptions. Review of Business Research. , 7, 4. p.15(5). Retrieved March 20, 2011, from Academic OneFile <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">(Document ID: A177983881).

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Barcelona, R., & Rockey, D.. (2010). Using Collaborative Learning Technologies to Facilitate Effective Group Work. //Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance//, 81(4), 12-14,55. Retrieved March 20, 2011, from Education Module. (Document ID: 2011130951).

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Get a free Slideshare account. (n.d.) Retrieved on March 20, 2011, from <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Harbison, Niall. (2011, September 29) Using Slideshare And 5 Great Social Media Presentations. //simplyZesty//. Retrieved from <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Hill, Paul. (2010, May 24). Prezi. Thoughts on using Prezi as a teacher tool. Retrieved from <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Malo, R.B. (2011, March 13). Slideshare Marketing-Another Alternative To Articles. //Street Articles: Where Writers Become Authors//. Retrieved from <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Orlando, John. (2010, June 30). Prezi: A Better Way of Doing Presentations. //Faculty Focus: Focused on Today’s Higher Education Professional//. Retrieved from []

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Perez, Juan Carlos. (2011, February 16). Slideshare Aims to Simplify Web Meetings. //PCWorld//. Retrieved from [].

<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Prezi Academy: Step-by-Step Tutorial on Prezi Basics. //Prezi//. Retrieved on March 20, 2011, from <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Spick, Geoff. (2010, March 8) Zoho Show Adds Transitions and Animations For Web Presentations. //CMS Wire//. Retrieved from []

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Teresa. How to Create and Share an Online Presentation With Zoho Show. wikiHow. Retrieved on March 19, 2011, from [] __ <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">. __

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Teresa & Flickety. How to Create an Online Presentation With Prezi. wikiHow. Retrieved on March 19, 2011, from [] __ <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">. __

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Why you should use Slideshare? (n.d.) Retrieved on March 20, 2011, from [].

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Zipcast: 1-click meetings are here. (n.d.) Retrieved on March 19, 2011, from [] <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">__. __

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Zoho Show. (n.d) Retrieved March 19, 2011, from [].