Reflection on “The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style” by Kurt Paccio and James Gates (K12Online07)

Reflection on “The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style” by Kurt Paccio and James Gates (K12Online07)

This workshop presented me with two new tools that I hadn’t heard of before: Spresent and Splashcast.

Spresent will probably become my “Power Point” type tool of choice. It’s very easy to use and Kurt’s presentation was very easy to follow. The thing that I really like about Spresent is how easy it is to embed in my own website or wiki. What I’d really like to use it with, of course, is for students to create presentation with it. Unfortunately, working with elementary school age children, I’m not sure if I can create a class account that they can easily access.

Kurt brings up a great point about using a “web based” program: when there’s an upgrade, everyone gets the update.

Unfortunately, the video for James’ presentation wasn’t working (or able to be downloaded), so I listened to the audio and worked through the Splashcast site. This is definitely an amazing player, very easy to create different channels and playlists with and easily embed on your own site. If I worked with high school kids, I would encourage them to post all presentations here so that it can easily be archived and viewed by all. Students could then embed each other’s presentations on their own blogs, and then reflect on them right there.

I wish that Splashcast would also allow for RSS feeds for blogs/podcasts rather than just Flickr or Youtube.

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