Week 5 - Prezi

Well I can definitely say that this week has been a whole lot better using the multimedia tool Prezi! It was very quick and easy to get started. I just needed to sign up using my email address and could get started right away. The video tutorials helped me create my first prezi with ease. I went onto my Facebook and saved a few pictures of my family and created the presentation within 15 minutes. Very easy to create and embed the link onto my blog. Here is the prezi I created about my family.
http://prezi.com/oihcnszsduey/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Prezi is a great tool for teachers to use for creating quick presentations to the students. It can also be a way for students to create their own presentations. Students can create their own narratives using prezi, rather than typing up a story on word. Each slide can contain an image with some text, whether the images are found on the internet or the students art work is scanned to the computer and embedded that way. Parents/Caregivers will be able to access the story online, they can also save it as a pdf file and print it out for safe keeping. The students will be more engaged using prezi rather than typing up the text on word, they will be able to see their story come to life, making their story even more meaningful to the students.

Substitution:
Prezi can be used in the classroom to show the students how a narrative is structured. The first slide can go into more detail on the orientation of a narrative, then the next slide on the complication and then on the resolution.

Augmentation:
The children can now start to think about some ideas on what their narrative will be about. Viewing narrative stories on Prezi and begin writing down all of their ideas for their very own story, choose a layout and images to use as well.

Modification:
After viewing narratives on Prezi, the students can now start editing the stories and even change the characters, the setting and the mood. The students can begin to start predicting what might happen in each event, based on the title and images.

Redefinition:
Now the children can put all of their ideas and planning into creating their own narrative using prezi.com. By now through each stage they would of been able to gather enough information on how a narrative is structured and many ideas on what their story could be about.