Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 12, Presentation Apps

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[00:00:00.238]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:02.209]presentation apps.
[00:00:03.296](upbeat techno music)
[00:00:17.098]Hi my name is Guy Trainn,
[00:00:18.358]and this is Mobile Learning in the Classroom
[00:00:20.857]from Tech Edge and today I'm talking about
[00:00:22.646]some basic presentation apps
[00:00:24.534]and this is a good time of the year to talk about it,
[00:00:26.708]towards the end of the year.
[00:00:27.928]Students finish projects, they document them,
[00:00:30.448]and one of the best ways to document projects
[00:00:32.378]is using presentation apps
[00:00:34.491]and presentation apps have been with us for a long time
[00:00:38.574]but there ares a new generation of presentation apps
[00:00:41.826]that are mostly cloud based.
[00:00:43.247]All the three ones that I will show are cloud based,
[00:00:45.827]so you don't have to store them on a specific computer
[00:00:48.550]or device and that means you have access to them everywhere.
[00:00:52.572]They're also in some ways simpler than they ever were.
[00:00:55.458]There less options than let's say
[00:00:57.611]a full PowerPoint presentation,
[00:01:00.030]but that I think is more powerful because it forces students
[00:01:03.260]and anybody using them really
[00:01:05.251]to focus on what's really important,
[00:01:06.754]what do they want to show and how do they want to show it.
[00:01:09.945]The first one I want to talk about is Slides,
[00:01:12.301]this is from Google and it's part of the Google app suite
[00:01:16.772]if you're using Google apps for education
[00:01:18.478]you have access to Slides and one of the things
[00:01:20.754]that Slides has done well over the time is
[00:01:23.822]the importing of things from PowerPoint
[00:01:26.665]so you can easily take PowerPoints that you've used
[00:01:28.920]and import them.
[00:01:29.733]So as teachers, if you created a lot of content
[00:01:31.948]this is great, but really what we want to make sure
[00:01:35.097]is that our students are able to work in Slides.
[00:01:37.860]One of the advantages of working in Slides,
[00:01:39.831]like anywhere else in Google,
[00:01:41.395]is that students, or adults, can collaborate
[00:01:44.505]on making the presentation
[00:01:47.450]so each can work on their own page,
[00:01:49.197]they can edit each other pages,
[00:01:50.782]there's that whole notion
[00:01:51.859]that Google saves previous versions
[00:01:54.419]so even if they make a mistake or erase something
[00:01:56.410]it is recoverable, even between sessions
[00:02:00.453]and so that's a great piece
[00:02:03.136]and now I'll give you some examples
[00:02:04.598]of things that I've used in that.
[00:02:07.463]This is for example a short welcome to Tech Edge
[00:02:12.725]and you can see that there are
[00:02:14.960]and whenever they make changes
[00:02:16.199]you can see the differences very much like a PowerPoint,
[00:02:18.495]you can see the slides on the left
[00:02:20.120]and you can see it on the right
[00:02:22.172]and just pressing on the Go button
[00:02:24.002]will go into presentation mode
[00:02:25.911]and then as it loads, you can see it go full screen.
[00:02:32.128]So this is how you manage it.
[00:02:34.607]To add a new slide you just press the plus
[00:02:38.223]and you can see that you can add many different features.
[00:02:43.485]So there are lots of features including Line, Shapes,
[00:02:45.781]Tables, Links are very, very important
[00:02:50.923]so you can link to outside materials on the web.
[00:02:53.808]You do have to remember and student's have to remember
[00:02:55.718]as well, that if you are including links
[00:02:57.953]you have to be connected at the moment
[00:02:59.983]to include that feature.
[00:03:01.852]You can see that there are different setups,
[00:03:04.291]so you can use lots of pictures,
[00:03:05.633]whether they're full screen or part screen.
[00:03:07.656]Very much like a presentation software
[00:03:11.352]of any kind.
[00:03:12.918]To add people to share, you just press
[00:03:16.250]the person with a plus next to it
[00:03:18.403]and you include the people based on
[00:03:20.516]the e-mail they use in Google
[00:03:23.910]and if you're Google for education school
[00:03:26.042]that should be very easy to do.
[00:03:27.830]You can also add other people depending on how
[00:03:30.735]you're system is built and you can see
[00:03:34.717]that you can build even presenter notes
[00:03:37.440]and other things,
[00:03:38.232]so you can do lots of work.
[00:03:40.305]It's got enough to create really nice presentation
[00:03:43.474]without doing too much
[00:03:45.404]and just a button to add slides
[00:03:48.920]is at the bottom of the slide selector
[00:03:51.337]so you just do a plus, you select the format you want
[00:03:54.426]and then you go ahead.
[00:03:55.949]So this is Slides from Google,
[00:03:57.595]really user friendly, I've seen kindergartners and up
[00:04:01.029]use it very effectively and again,
[00:04:03.976]lots of choices inside, but really simple enough
[00:04:07.876]that anybody can use and the thing I love about it
[00:04:10.761]is the collaboration.
[00:04:12.203]The second one is an even simpler presentation
[00:04:15.374]that is really based on more on the visual
[00:04:18.259]and this is Haiku Deck.
[00:04:19.517]I've talked about Haiku Deck in the past,
[00:04:21.468]but it's worth while remembering that
[00:04:24.760]it's there and I'm showing these things
[00:04:27.442]right now on the iPad.
[00:04:28.640]They look a little differently on my laptop
[00:04:33.374]or a Chrome book, but they are available that way too.
[00:04:36.686]So you can use it with any device you have,
[00:04:39.510]which is again a great benefit
[00:04:41.827]and I keep talking about this throughout our shows,
[00:04:45.138]but I love these apps and those web based services
[00:04:48.998]that you can use on any device you have
[00:04:51.335]that frees students from having to find the same device.
[00:04:55.561]It also frees them to share and to use a variety of devices,
[00:05:01.290]whatever's available.
[00:05:02.408]Even phones work with most of these,
[00:05:04.460]including Haiku Deck,
[00:05:07.446]and Haiku Deck is great because it is primarily
[00:05:10.636]a visual form, so yes you can include words
[00:05:13.482]and I do in this easy presentation that I created.
[00:05:16.874]You navigate just by swiping or by clicking if you're
[00:05:20.288]on the computer.
[00:05:22.137]It's built for these big impact photos
[00:05:25.509]and these are just a few that I put together
[00:05:27.906]just to demonstrate what we're doing right now,
[00:05:30.508]but creating an extra slide is very simple,
[00:05:34.164]you press the plus on the bottom
[00:05:35.952]and here it is, and you've got different formats
[00:05:38.248]that you can use and you can also do an image search,
[00:05:42.135]which is fantastic.
[00:05:44.545]The image search, let's just do this because I'm doing this
[00:05:49.076]about China.
[00:05:50.233]You can do a search and they'll bring up different places.
[00:05:56.034]I'll choose something quickly,
[00:05:59.434]and now I have a background for my text again,
[00:06:02.685]the emphasis here is on the visual,
[00:06:05.062]less on the text, but you can include different things
[00:06:07.785]including different graphs and figures
[00:06:13.391]to add to what's going on.
[00:06:15.546]So, Haiku Deck is great because it's simple.
[00:06:19.833]It's great because it focuses on the visual
[00:06:23.286]and therefore it forces a very careful choice,
[00:06:26.091]I would argue of the visuals and you can of course
[00:06:29.497]choose the visuals you yourself have.
[00:06:32.118]You can change themes and change fonts,
[00:06:33.959]but again, simple selections,
[00:06:35.564]which in my mind and in my experience,
[00:06:37.433]watching a lot of classrooms,
[00:06:38.856]helps speed up the creation process,
[00:06:41.944]because you don't have that many options
[00:06:43.935]and so you're not meandering,
[00:06:45.277]just spending a lot of time,
[00:06:46.821]on a font, or choosing, or writing a lot of text even,
[00:06:51.189]really what is the most important,
[00:06:53.180]what visual helps you make that point
[00:06:55.190]and that's Haiku Deck.
[00:06:56.309]The last one I want to talk about is considerably more
[00:06:58.686]sophisticated and has been with us for quite a while
[00:07:02.181]and that is Prezi and what I love about Prezi,
[00:07:05.126]which is very different than the other two,
[00:07:06.771]is Prezi has a different level of sophistication
[00:07:08.945]because you can arrange things in what is essentially
[00:07:12.277]a 3D space because you can zoom in and out
[00:07:15.406]and go sideways, it's a way to organize the things
[00:07:19.632]that you're thinking about,
[00:07:22.497]so let me give you can example
[00:07:24.408]of a presentation that I did create.
[00:07:29.122]Now Prezi's more easily maneuvered on the laptop
[00:07:33.571]if you go to the app or to Prezi.com
[00:07:36.964]and you use it that way,
[00:07:37.960]but you can use it on the iPad to show it,
[00:07:42.449]and you can do some basic editing.
[00:07:44.258]It's not as easy and you don't have all the features,
[00:07:47.529]but I've worked with it rather extensively on the iPad
[00:07:50.333]and I like it.
[00:07:51.368]I definitely like the fact that you can
[00:07:53.806]move it around and you don't have to be then
[00:07:57.524]tethered to a computer while you're presenting
[00:07:59.373]you can actually walk around the room,
[00:08:00.978]walk around anywhere,
[00:08:02.239]you can do this actually from your phone.
[00:08:04.493]So there's the visual representation,
[00:08:06.952]the spatial organization,
[00:08:09.044]and that ability to zoom in and out
[00:08:12.051]to include different media.
[00:08:13.739]So we have a video right here at the bottom
[00:08:16.440]and we can keep navigating it
[00:08:18.107]even beyond the preprogrammed steps
[00:08:20.423]to make sure that we're getting to all the places we want.
[00:08:24.710]So this is Prezi, again what's great about it
[00:08:28.002]is the movement, although some people
[00:08:29.423]if there's excessive movement seem to be
[00:08:31.984]a little bit queasy so you have to make sure
[00:08:34.990]that everybody's ready for it
[00:08:36.311]and student's know not to just have things zoom in and out
[00:08:39.196]all the time and move in weird shapes
[00:08:42.772]in ways that is not productive
[00:08:45.270]from the presentation perspective.
[00:08:47.079]What it does add,
[00:08:48.887]and Prezi has always been great about this,
[00:08:51.203]is the three dimensional thinking about the content
[00:08:54.088]you want to deliver.
[00:08:55.085]So it's not just about making cool transitions,
[00:08:57.299]but it's actually about contributing to the content
[00:08:59.697]through that movement and that ability to zoom in and out.
[00:09:03.009]So today we talked about three presentation apps
[00:09:05.994]that you can use on multiple devices
[00:09:07.783]and I'll see you next time
[00:09:08.737]on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
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