Ask a Scientist

As stated in the email from Dr. Lyman, my two questions that I asked on the "Ask a Scientist" Website were or haven't been answered at this point.

Hopefully in time, I hope that they do, as I am curios about the answers to both of them.

Online Presentation Tool Evaluation

For this week’s blog posting, I took a look at two different presentation tools.

1. Prezentit.com

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, I would rate this as a 3 in many ways. The only reason I gave it a few scoring points was the fact that it was free to use, which is always nice considering what teachers sometimes spend money on related to their classrooms. As nice as it was from the free standpoint, I did not like its user-friendliness. It was very difficult to work with which didn’t score well with me. One of the first things I wanted to try was incorporating an image; I failed at that part, as I was unable to make that work for me.  I was also frustrated with the fact when typing in my information, as I moved away from that work; I was unable to see that information on the screen. It was as if, it had disappeared, which was difficult to work through. I would not recommend this for our classroom project.

2. Prezi.com

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give this website a 8 or 9. It also was free, like the first one, but this one was much more user-friendly. The user-friendly component was key, as it had a great tutorial that was easy to follow, and allowed me to set up a sample prezi, before creating one for our class project. I would highly recommend this as a possible tool for individual’s projects, and I would love to try this in my own classroom.