Presentation tools allow the use to create and publish presentations in text, video, or mixed media. Many tools provide a device for comment or marking the presentation.

Learner Applications: Identify useful/valuable information; listen or view; communicate, demonstrate; peer critique

Instructor Applications: Lecture, communicate, demonstrate

Examples:

• Community + technology = (informal) learning (Patricia McGee)
• Mrs. Burk's Perimeter Rap
  
• EfS 162 Students' Online Presentations
• What not to do (video)
  

Services:

• Bubbleshare - Create slideshows from images and add text or audio narration for free.NO LONGER AVAILABLE after NOVEMBER 15, 2009.
  
• Expert Village - How-to videos on countless topics.
• Prezi - Create a map of your ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to details, amaze, convince, take the day. And it is very simple to use.
• SlideRocket - is a rich Internet application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
• Slideshare - Free service that allows you to upload and publish your Power Point™ presentations and share them with others. Comments can be added in a discussion thread.
• Teachertube - Videos from teachers and students.
• Voicethreads - An online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. The first three are free.
• YawnBuster - YawnBuster brings alive your PowerPoint slides with Group Activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions.

How to:

• Power Heaven: The Power to Animate - Simple and complex examples and instructions for animation in PowerPoint™.

Successful Practices:

• The Cognitive Load of PowerPoint: Q&A with Richard E. Mayer by Cliff Atkinson - Mayer speaks to the application of mulitmedia principles in PPT design.

• The Lessig Method of Presentation from Presentation Zen blog - this approach personified by Lawrence Lessig can be engaging and thought-provoking.
• Teaching with PowerPoint (PDF) from Brigham Young University - 1 page of tips
• Really Bad PowerPoint and How to Avoid it (PDF) - from Seth Godin - more oriented toward business applcations

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