After my Multimedia class worked with 280Slides, we continued our unit on Presentations by moving on to Prezi.com. If any one is interested in using this tool I definitely recommend it, but I also recommend watching the tutorial video. Prezi is lots of fun to work with and watch presentations made in it, but it is very intricate and I found that it took quite a bit of work to figure out what was going on with it. I don't even know half of what there is to know on how to use prezi, since its just basically an introduction to the program.
Again, first I had to choose a presentation. I used the same idea that I used for 280Slides, which is "How to Setup a Scene for a Movie". Again I used this idea because its something we just got done talking about in another class, and knowing the topic well made it easier to focus on the presentation part of the project.
The Prezi sheet is spread out on the whole screen, you can zoom out to see the broad piece of you're presentation, or zoom in and only focus on working on a small portion. You can write wherever you want, add pictures, and frames around it. When you have all you're information down, you add a path. The path is helpful, for when you are ready to present, because when you click it acts like a regular slide show and takes you to the next number in the path. The good thing about Prezi is that if someone wants to go back and look at another slide, you can back out of the "presentation" to the wide view, and go back to that slide with ease.
To present, you can do a picture within a picture, adding dialogue. Or you can have a spiderweb of information that is expanded across you're prezi spread sheet.
You can upload you're own pictures, or pictures from the web and place them. You can size them, rotate them as you wish. As I said before this is really an indepth program that takes quite a bit of practice, so I can explain it until I am blue in the face. But more than likely I will just confuse you, or just won't be giving Prezi the "respect" that it deserves.
To just go and have a look at the site and tutorial go to ---> prezi.com
To have a look at the Prezi Presentation I made go to ---> http://prezi.com/c1a3qpoy_idz/set-scene-movie/
Friday, April 23, 2010
280Slides Workshop
In our Multimedia class, we began a Unit on Presentations. You know, when you're sitting in class and the teacher says "Powerpoint time", that sort of presentation. At first I was rather meh at the whole idea because even though powerpoints are a useful teaching tool, some professors...(at UVM who will remain nameless) use it as their only form and it can become very boring. But after we started the unit, just seeing the different tools that you have at hand to make them, is just amazing.
We started with 280Slides.com. This is a lot like powerpoint that is often on school computers and such, only it is through the internet and doesn't have the vast amount of options that you would get from powerpoint. But it is free, and it has a lot of other merits that outweigh that of you're run of the mill presentation program.
* First of all, as stated above, it is a free program. You can sign up for it just as easily as if you were to sign up for facebook or email or something.
* It is right there on the internet, so there is no hassle of changing formats or whatever to make it open on another computer. Since it is already there, you don't have to worry about graphics , words, and other portions of the presentation to disappear in transition.
Getting Started-
I found that after a few minutes of playing with the different tools that 280slides had to offer, I was able to make my way through the presentation with relative ease. So the next thing to do was to pick a topic. I decided to talk about setting up a scene to film for a movie. I had just been studying this in my movie class and as it was fresh in my mind it would be easier to write about and be able to focus more on the presentation part of the assignment. I decided on a light blue background, with white writing. I went slide by slide, making a point on each one, giving dialogue about it and quite often backing it up with some sort of graphic.
When we presented them, the feedback was that I had made more of an online tutorial rather than a stand up presentation. I needed to put less on the slides and be able to explain more with the slides as the BACKUP to what I was saying. I also found that somehow I had managed to change the font from white to black without noticing. So it was an interesting experience, and a good tool to have but I definitely have more things to learn about the program and presentation making.
When finished I published it to slideshare, so if anyone would like to take a look at it, you can find it at this link ---> http://www.slideshare.net/lanelane12/in-the-movies
We started with 280Slides.com. This is a lot like powerpoint that is often on school computers and such, only it is through the internet and doesn't have the vast amount of options that you would get from powerpoint. But it is free, and it has a lot of other merits that outweigh that of you're run of the mill presentation program.
* First of all, as stated above, it is a free program. You can sign up for it just as easily as if you were to sign up for facebook or email or something.
* It is right there on the internet, so there is no hassle of changing formats or whatever to make it open on another computer. Since it is already there, you don't have to worry about graphics , words, and other portions of the presentation to disappear in transition.
Getting Started-
I found that after a few minutes of playing with the different tools that 280slides had to offer, I was able to make my way through the presentation with relative ease. So the next thing to do was to pick a topic. I decided to talk about setting up a scene to film for a movie. I had just been studying this in my movie class and as it was fresh in my mind it would be easier to write about and be able to focus more on the presentation part of the assignment. I decided on a light blue background, with white writing. I went slide by slide, making a point on each one, giving dialogue about it and quite often backing it up with some sort of graphic.
When we presented them, the feedback was that I had made more of an online tutorial rather than a stand up presentation. I needed to put less on the slides and be able to explain more with the slides as the BACKUP to what I was saying. I also found that somehow I had managed to change the font from white to black without noticing. So it was an interesting experience, and a good tool to have but I definitely have more things to learn about the program and presentation making.
When finished I published it to slideshare, so if anyone would like to take a look at it, you can find it at this link ---> http://www.slideshare.net/lanelane12/in-the-movies
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Pod-Cast
A link to my pod-cast on PodBean...I worked together with a friend and we kind of combined our projects. He had to write out an interview and I had to do a podcast on something, so I used the interview for the podcast. It's me talking about life living as the oldest with four younger brothers. Just something very simple.
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