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From PowerPoint and next generation presentation tools; I learned that PowerPoint is useful for teachers who must continually present information to students in ways that will engage and inspire. Knowing the strength and weaknesses of a power point is essential to give the best of a good presentation. Other presentation software program like Prezi, SlideRocket, Acrobat, and Google Docs produce high quality multimedia as well. As a future teacher I would definitely incorporate PowerPoint presentations to my classes. Since it can load text, images, and videos, PowerPoint presentation will feature colorful graphics and pop up windows helping students stay focused. It will help newbie teacher by borrowing PowerPoint presentation from other teachers. PowerPoint is installed on all computers in schools so that students can access it to create their own project presentation. With Prezi, SlideRocket, Acrobat, and Google Docs students can also do presentations at home if they do not have PowerPoint available at home. PowerPoint's features are useful for teachers at every school and students at every grade level.

Next generation web 2.0 presentation tools use multimedia to expand the ways that information is shared in classrooms. The most used next generation tools are Prezi, Animoto, and Glogster. I have used Prezi before for other classes it can only be done online. With Prezi, slides can be made to zoom in and out, occupy different parts of the screen, show animation and more. It is widely used by teacher and students because it clearly emphasize key points over supporting details. Students can view Prezi outside school letting them review information and make their own contributions to the slides. I have not had any experience with Animoto which is another next generation tool but it allows teachers to use video clips, pictures, sound, and text to expand how information is presented. It allows students to create their own short video presentations in many ways. Glogster lets teachers and students create digital posters that combine the use of images, sound, and text. These digital posters can be sent via email or posted on class website. These are all good tools with different purposes that students can used to complete projects and class assignments. As future teachers we should include these tools available for our students so that they can become more productive and more creative.

YouTube, handcrafted videos, and streaming videos resources are awesome ways to use as a visual support to your teaching when you need students to remember concepts during class. YouTube is a website where people can upload and watch videos made by others. It is one of the most widely known websites in the world. There many educational channels on YouTube which can be safely played during class. Handcrafted videos, on the other hand, are short films about important educational topics and concepts and are made without showing peoples faces. The camera focus on words, numbers and images so that viewers listen to narrator as they watch mathematical operations in actions or scientific events. Streaming videos is the simultaneous transfer of video, voice, and data from one computer to another. A lot of good interesting and informative educational materials are available to schools for free or on a subscription basis. Videos from YouTube and internet television are examples of streaming media. As a student I have experienced videos during classes and it allow us to visualize concepts and experiments that we cannot picture in our head. It really helps students and teachers and I will be like one of those teachers who plays a lot of videos to prove my point.

Blog Written and Mind Map Created by Leandris Rodriguez.

   Rodriguez, L (2015, March 13). Powerpoint and Next Generation Tools,Next Generation Web 2.0 Presentation Tools, and Video Resources, Created with Bubbl.us, via https://bubbl.us/mindmap