Internet Tools - Miklenne Guzman

Prezi

Prezi is an online presentation software that allows teachers, students, and common users to create presentations that go beyond the traditional slides. The limits are endless because it uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to create great presentations. There are readymade templates that can be used and customized or you can start a blank Prezi to fit your style or need. Users can then layout their topics and subtopics with different forms of content such as text, images, videos, and more that will remain hidden until the presenter is ready to have them revealed. 

Since presentations are very common in education, Prezi is great tool for making this process easier and less frustrating for both teachers and students. Presenters can jump through their presentation without having to scroll through numerous slides to find relevant content. This allows the presenter and audience to constantly stay engaged during presentations. Prezi also has a presenter view that allows its users to leave cues and prompts that can be seen while presenting. It also has a timer that helps presenters stay on pace.

Prezi presentation links can be shared and viewed by others on various mobile devices. Teachers may find this beneficial for students to access and learn from the presentations in the classroom or at home. This allows the learning process to be continuous. In addition to the many great features of Prezi, real time collaboration and co-editing can be done at any time or place. This is a great feature for students because group collaboration has become very common in education. Students can collaborate and create their presentations all in one internet tool. Anyone can use Prezi to create organized presentations that can captivate and engage its various viewers.

Diigo

Diigo which stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff,” is an online multi-tool that is great for teachers and students to manage their workflow from browsing, reading, researching, annotating, storing, organizing, and so much more. Taking notes and becoming organized can be done easily with Diigo. Annotation tools such as highlighters and sticky notes are available to use on PDF’s or while browsing the web on any mobile or desktop device. This is a great feature for any learner because it allows them to take notes during the research process. Providing feedback is another feature Diigo allows its users to do. Whether you are a teacher or common user, you can provide feedback using the different annotation tools.
          Diigo also allows its users to organize and structure their links, references, and other input with the use of their automated outliner or a customized outline. Users can be organized by adding bookmarks and creating tags with significant terms that will allow them to go back and view various websites when needed for future reference. Teachers and students will easily be able to go back and review websites that are specific to a topic they have researched.

Sharing information with others has become essential in education and Diigo allows different forms of sharing to be done. The cloud can be used to build a library of links, pages, notes, and pictures that become easily accessible at any time or place. Users can also share the information with groups of classmates, colleagues, or friends to patriciate in large or small group collaboration of the various topics shared. Overall, Diigo is a great tool for education to store online resources with annotations that can be accessed indefinitely.

SlideShare

SlideShare is a great online tool for education that is used to share and learn about various topics from different experts. The ­goal of SlideShare was to make knowledge sharing easy for the learning process. With over 18 million uploads in 40 content categories, teachers and students can search and learn from the wide variety and vast amount of information provided.

Teachers, students, and individual learners can use SlideShare to build their knowledge of topics by flipping through the SlideShare deck. PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote, media files, and other document file types can be viewed, uploaded, and shared with the public or uploaded for personal use. Anyone can explore SlideShare and choose from the different topics provided in Today’s Top, Featured, Daily Top, and Trending in Social Media. Or they can explore the various educational categories from Art & Photos, Education, Science, Law, and so much more. SlideShare also has a search bar that can be used to limit the topics you are interested in learning about and filters that allow learners to narrow the selection of file types to easily locate and learn from appropriate resources. Overall, this tool is great for teachers as they are able to find resources and presentations that can be used in the classroom. It is also beneficial for students because they can continue to learn about topics if clarification is needed or if they want to increase their knowledge. SlideShare is an exceptional online tool for getting educated through different forms of media.