Saturday, February 16, 2013

Journal 6


I always wanted to use Prezi for making presentations but never got a chance to use it. This week’s assignment gave me this option. I felt most engaged while creating this prezi presentation. It is a great tool for presenting presentation in liner  or non-linear fashion. It definitely offers more options compared to the powerpoint in terms of templates, colors, object orientation and sharing. Users can add as many frames on the Prezi canvas and keep adding text, graphics and other multimedia to these frames. The objects in the frames can be ungrouped and objects can be presented individually.  I liked the features which allows users to rotate, scale or move objects. The voice over feature is great too. I just added some music.
After reading the DB posts on implicit and explicit instructional styles, I didn’t find myself very comfortable with the idea of using only implicit instructional methods. I think that if explicit instructions are provide prior to the start of teaching, it is helpful for learners and they make sense of what to  do. Also, simple tasks are best learned through explicit instructions.  

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