Web 2.O Presentation Tools

 

MULTIMEDIA

PRESENTATION TOOLS

Prezi – (http://www.prezi.com)

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. You can create zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings, and more.

SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net) 

Upload your slides, share with a link, embed in a blog, discover interesting slideshows, tag, comment and have fun.

280 slides (http://w80slides.com)

Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for - and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.

Picsviewr (http://www.picsviewr.com)

Picsviewr is an application for Flickr users wanting to showcase their photos in a different way. It proposes 8 different templates (some written in Flash, others in HTML/JS) to suit Flickr user needs.

MULTIMEDIA – WEB 2.0 TOOLS

WORD CLOUDS

There are many different websites available that will let you create your own word clouds. Here are 8 of them:

1.  Wordle (http://www.wordle.net)

One of the most common word clouds. It doesn’t have fancy shapes, but it works well at what it does.

2.  Tagxedo (http://www.tagxedo.com)

This word cloud allows you to create fancy-shaped clouds. Be sure to look through the examples!

3.  ABCya (http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm)

This cloud is geared to younger students. Visit the website to see some examples of how this could be used.

4.  Tagul (http://tagul.com)

Like Tagxedo, Tagul lets you create word clouds in various different shapes. It’s very simple to use.

5.  Tagcrowd (http://tagcrowd.com)

Tagcrowd is more like Wordle in that you can’t choose the shapes, but it works quite well.

6.  Worditout (http://worditout.com)

Another simple word cloud generator like Wordle and Tagcrowd. You cannot make words into shapes.

7.  Word Mosaic (http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/)

Word Mosaic lets you chose the shape of the world cloud from a small variety of shapes.

8.  Wordsift (http://wordsift.com)

This is slightly different to the other in that the word cloud produced is pretty simple. But it does have the additional feature of linking each word to a visual thesaurus. Click on the word to get it’s meaning, and see how it is linked to other words.

MULTIMEDIA – WEB 2.0 TOOLS

WORD CLOUDS PROJECTS

For this web 2.0 project, you are to select 2 of the 8 websites to create 2 word clouds of your own. To prepare for these 2 projects and to get some ideas, do the following:

• Visit EACH website and explore their galleries.
• Use the galleries to come up with 2 different ideas for word clouds you will create.
• One of your word clouds should result in a specific shape (animal, person, etc…).
• The other word cloud does not have to take on a specific shape.
• Your word clouds should contain A LOT of words…the more the better. Both of them should look as detailed as the examples you have seen on the websites.

You should be able to share your word clouds from any of the sites with embedded code (like we did the Prezi projects).

Put both word clouds on the same post (blog #9) with a short description of your topic and why you selected it. Be sure to reference the word cloud website in your paragraph for each cloud.