ICT Tool Group 3

Digital Tools - Presentation

Powerpoint
This is a simple, effective and popular presentation tool, students from year 1 can engage with this program and achieve positive results. The program provides means to display images and texts and the scope to add various transitions, sound, links and many other tools to the presentation. Power points can also be created relatively quickly should the need arise.

Prezi
The world of prezi is endless, this program steps up from power point and creates a highly professional presentation that links all concepts and ideas together. The program provides many features for students to engage in. Presentations allow for zooming in to see single concepts then zooming out to see the bigger picture and where each concept fits in. They can be used to create information presentation, narrations, sales pitches and many other texts.

Glogster
Glogster is another great presentation tool. It is more like a scrapbooking tool than power point or prezi. This could be used for students to present one idea or event. It allows for images and text to be used in a bright and fun way. I enjoyed engaging with this tool, unfotunately I did not save my glog, and one wrong click of the button meant that it has disappeared for ever, a sad moment, but a valuable lesson learned about saving work that can be passed on to students.

 Digital Tools - Google earth and google maps

Students engage quickly in google earth as they can see things from their classroom that they normally would not experience. I would recommend that the learning manager allow students some time when first engaging with these tools to explore their own neighbourhood as this is a temptation to difficult to resist for many of us. While students are exploring their neighbourhood they will be learning how to navigate this tool, the many features available and setting themselves up for higher learning experiences.

Google maps can be used to locate areas, work out the best way to get there, how long it would take, if provisions are necessary and many other valuable learning experiences.