Week 3 Activity 10: Prezi, Voki, Animoto

For this week's blog post, reflect on how these production tools can change the learning environment of your classroom. Explain some different ways you can use any of these tools in your teaching or how you would have your students use these tools to create. This week's blog post you will practice embedding- embed your Prezi, Voki and Animoto this week. 

How can they change the learning environment?
Prezi, Voki, and Animoto are helpful learning tools for creating that dimensional toolbox mentioned in earlier my posts. All of these tools are online and interactive, making the learning experience exciting and dynamic. In the eyes of this teacher- these are simply more fun strategies. Digital in, traditional memorization learning out. All of these approaches can be embraced by 21st century learners because they easily align with the way these learners think. 

These tools can also improve flexibility because they can be used at school or home and shared easily within groups as great as 30 members for editing or just watching at another time. As for teachers, the presentations can be viewed now or later and paused as needed instead of frantically scribbling notes for grading at another time in the future.  


Examples of ways students can use these tools to create.

• students can have fun creating their avatar and using it to present with a prezi if they can convert it to a video file (.avi)
• animoto and prezis are easily accessible online for students to work collaboratively and edit 
• my students do a Newman News live update with "reporting live from the desk or out in the field." Instead of sharing with me via email three different links, one for newsprint, one for audio, and another for video, I anticipate these tools streamline this process so there is just one, instead of three, links to cue.

PREZI

 

VOKI


ANIMOTO