Title: Presentation Tool Design
Course: Informàtica 4t ESO v2 ang > Section: Topic 17. Final Presentation

Activity

This last topic must be used to prepare your final oral presentation where you will present your App and all the material you have drafted throughout the course.

To do this, we propose two possible tools, both online, so that you can work on all the group components at the same time if you share the document. This means you can all make contributions and better use of your time.

The proposed tools, of which you must choose one, are:

1. Prezi

This enables collaborative presentations in a format that is very different to the traditional slides of other tools. All the concepts, objects, etc.  are found on a single table and are displayed in the order which is fixed. Viewing involves zooming in and out on the elements to produce a dynamic presentation.

You must be careful not to go overboard with these effects in the presentation because they may grab the viewer's attention and distract from your intended message.

Once the presentation has been created it can be shared to edit or just for viewing. Viewing can be public or limited to people who know the corresponding link. When a Prezi presentation is public, it can be downloaded and used directly or with the modifications you feel are needed.

2. Zoho

This makes it possible to generate collaborative presentations in a slide format but enriched with active elements and dynamic transitions. The slides can contain text, tables, graphics, images, videos, sounds, forms, etc., and there is an extensive template format to choose from.

With respect to transitions, you can choose different effects, applicable to all the slides or differentiated for each.

As with Prezi, the presentation can be shared privately, to edit or view, or publicly, for viewing or to download and used directly or with modifications.

Both programs are free but you need to register before using them. You need an email address to register. In the case of Zoho you can register directly from your Gmail account. For Prezi, choose the education licence.

They can both be installed as Google Chrome Apps so you can access them directly from this browser.

Another feature common to both is that they allow you to import presentations made with PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress, although they require certain changes and adaptations with respect to transitions.

To decide between one tool or the other, do a test presentation with both. It doesn't have to be very long, but it should contain as many elements as possible to be able to practice all the options of both tools.

If you have worked with one of the two, choose the one you don't know. This means you will get the chance to develop a good working knowledge of them both.