Digital Presentation Tools
With the use of technological tools particularly such
as projectors, presentations, video, and the Internet in education in recent years,
visual education has become popular. (1) The use of presentation
software to support lectures and presentations is omnipresent in the vertical education platform. PowerPoint
is the
most applied presentation that
I see often. The program allows the user to design and layout
content within the boundaries of individual slides, arrange these slides in the
desired order, and then display each slide in sequence to an audience during a
live presentation. Prezi, on the other hand, is a relative
newcomer as it was
released to the public in April 2009. Prezi made a free-flowing presentation to give the
effect of zooming. Prezi is a web-based program that comprehensively integrates text, pictures, animation, video, and audio into one
presentation file. Prezi
offers the presentation designer an “infinite canvas,” a virtually endless two-dimensional space navigated by a
zooming user interface. This application combines creative thinking with modern technology facilities, leading to an interactive and highly customized
presentation. (2)
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PowerPoint Presentation
Advantages |
PowerPoint Presentation
Disadvantages |
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- most well-known presentation making program - allows fast data transfer to the other Microsoft Office applications - offers the possibility to compress audio and video
clips - Microsoft PowerPoint Mobile allows presentations
to be viewed on the telephone, as well - limitlessly time of auto-play a single animation or slide - elements can be made to appear immediately as if
rendered from thin air, or to ˝fly in˝ using various types of computer
animation and different speeds of movement |
- slides are static, linear - more difficult to visually encode the physical or logical
relationship among elements of a presentation when those elements are
separated by a strong display boundaries - lack of diversity - requires the installation of the entire Microsoft Office
Pack - compatibility problems may appear between versions - the fonts must be available and various problems may
occur with the video files - it does not offer the possibility of
simultaneously having a document edited by several users - it requires resizing the pictures at an optimal resolution
or the final presentation size in Mbits will be large - effect combinations are difficult to apply |
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Prezi Presentation
Advantages |
Prezi Presentation
Disadvantages |
|
- most
well-known presentation-making program - allows fast data transfer to the other Microsoft Office applications - offers the
possibility to compress audio and video clips - Microsoft
PowerPoint Mobile allows presentations to be viewed on the telephone, as well - limitlessly
time of auto-play a single animation or slide - elements can
be made to appear immediately as if rendered from thin air, or to ˝fly in˝
using various types of computer animation and different speeds of movement |
- many of the previously presented strengths are only available
in the paid account version - requires the existence of an internet connection
and the creation of a user account on the Prezi.com website - at less high-performance computers, the frame movement
during the presentation may be fragmented - desktop version has several disadvantages: only
available for a fee; PDF files cannot be inserted; the application can be
used on 3 computers with one license; the more complicated graphs must be
made by using specialized software; the limit per inserted file is 50 MB;
files can be inserted, regardless of their size; - the forms can overload the presentation content - due to the over-mobility, imagines can create
visual discomfort - limited and fixed time of auto-play a single animation
or slide (just 4, 10, or 20 seconds) |
This Prezi
Presentation is a new concept to me but I am now very interested in utilizing
it.
References:
Vecdi Can, A., Karaca, N., Akyel, N. and Demirci, S.
D. (2012). Evaluating the Fitness of Lecturing with PowerPoint Presentation for
Accounting Education – research at Sakarya University. Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 55, 128-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.486
ŠPERNJAK, Andreja. International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science & Technology (ICEMST), May 16 - 18 2014, Konya / Turkey. The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational & Social Sciences (EPESS), 2014. Volume 1, Pages 191-195. http://www.epess.net/tr/download/article-file/332931
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