Weekly Report & Reflection Week 10

Welcome back ...again to some of you! 

This week we took a look at many different presentation tools and I personally tried to explore the majority of them and see what was similar and what was different between them all. I found that most of them were easy to use and that all of them allowed you put input pictures, videos and text. Some even allowed you to put a song over so as the presentation played there would be music to it, or another allowed you to record your voice so that played as the presentation went along. I think that all of these features are interesting and some may appeal to other more, but personally I like Prezi. These tools, specifically Prezi will be helpful in my education because it is a new and creative way to put a presentation together. I think that it is a cool way to present a topic that interests you and allows you to pick from different themes as well as start from scratch and fully create your own. I think that this a good tool for any student to know about because it is a neat way to create a presentation other than using the typical Power Point. 

Prezi and some of the other presentation tools are different to others that we have explored because they have different features, such as music and voice recording as mentioned above. Also some of these tools do not have the feature to share like some of the other ones we have looked at such as Google Docs. Which is somewhat of a con to these tools just because it you are working collaboratively it is easier when everyone is able to access the presentation at once. I would for sure add Prezi to my PLE and I would most likely put it under create, because it's a tool I would use to create presentations for both school and if needed outside of school as well. 

As we move through the course I learn more and more about what it means to be a digital citizen and this week I learned that you cannot just take any image that you want off of Google or another website to use it for your personal use. There are certain pictures for that use and before this week I did not know that, but the work for this past week has informed me of this topic. I have also learned that you have to make sure that you are properly citing everything that you use because if you are using someone else's work they deserve credit. I look forward to learning more about being a digital citizen in the last couple of weeks that we have left! 

On a side note I found a blog post from a couple of weeks ago on a Brock Student blog site (which you can see if you click HERE) and I found that since exams are coming up in a few short weeks that this may help a couple of you! This blog post was about tips for midterm season, which essentially you could apply to exam season as well. All lot of them I resonate with because I need to be in a place with minimal to no distractions or else I do not get any work or studying done. Which usually means I have to be in the library in a cubicle or at home in my bedroom! What are some of your study tips that you would give someone? 

Until next time,
Amanda :)