Presentation Tools Abound

Just can't seem to keep up these days. We are halfway through the semester and since creating their xtranormal video animations as a class partner/icebreaker activity students have been busy learning how to search the deep web by doing eight lessons at the Barebones Search website, starting a wiki at pbworks.com, testing out Google docs as a collaboration tool and more, all in addition to their daily computer application assignments in myitlab simulation software. We still have a few presentation tools to try out including blogs and prezi. By the end of the semester they will chose a presentation tool to show the class the steps and considerations they would undertake when they buy their own computer. That should probably be enough to choose from although I may allow them to suggest their own presenation tool as well. Should be interesting because in the past my students only used PowerPoint for this final project assignment. It seems to me that there are so many tools that could spice up presentations these days!