Application 1 (Part 2)

The first presentation tool that I evaluated was the Glogster. I had heard about Glogster last year from a media specialist at a nearby middle school. She spoke to myself and fellow teachers about how students were using Glogster in class for presentations. Curious, I checked it out this week. It is very user friendly, although it does not give you a lot of direction or instructions. I learned by experimenting with a "Glog" of my own. I had no trouble selecting backgrounds or pictures. To use any type of audio, it must be uploaded first. I would have to create some type of audio myself or find something appropriate to my presentation to upload. My only negative comment would be the size of the page itself. For a simple or informal presentation, it seems as though it would be great. But for a several-week long project like the one we are conducting, I do not know if I would be able to fit all pertinent information onto the Glog page. Text can be placed anywhere and resized as needed, so I suppose I could make it work. It just provides only one page for presentation in a poster-like format.
The other presentation tool I evaluated was Slideshare. Slideshare had a great slide presentation outlining its uses and benefits. I liked that I was able to see exactly what its purpose was and how it was useful as a presentation tool. Slideshare enables you to take a simple PowerPoint presentation and share it with anyone. I could choose to make it available to the public or just to classmates. I can also add an audio component to the slideshow. I can also search for others on Slideshow with similar presentations or presentations I like and find more that they have created. Uploading a PowerPoint presentation seems fairly easy. Adding audio, like with Glogster, is more difficult and more foreign to me. It would obviously be to my benefit to learn how to do this, as most presentation tools I have looked at have this feature. While it would be easier to simply add music, I would like to be able to add my own voice discussing the presentation.
Both tools offer great options for presentations. Glogster does seem as though it would be better for a quicker, poster-like presentation. Slideshare allows for multiple pages of information to be shared.