I have already used several of these tools before, with varying degrees of success. I've used SlideShare, YouTube and Popplet fairly recently and Prezi and various video editing tools less recently. I wanted to learn something completely new so I looked at the 50 ways to tell a story and then followed a chain of links and ended up with:
- Microsoft Sway
- PowToon
- Padlet
I'm currently playing with Microsoft Sway. It's like PowerPoint but much better and entirely online. It brings together all kinds of multimedia and you can create a presentation that takes the audience through a series of thoughts. There are lots of different layouts and themes. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can't export it or save it offline. I had a look at their online forum and it seems that I'm not alone in wishing they had thought about that.
Anyway, when I've finished playing with it, I'll post something to show how it works.
Interesting isn't it Nicki that we all tend to talk about 'playing' with a new software tool when what we are doing is actually work. One advantage of networking is the opportunity to hear what others felt about the different tools they have tried. For example in our group Padlet has had some use. Last year several of my group liked the possibilities/affordances of PowToon.
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