Activity 5.1 - Trying out multimedia tools

Unit 5 begins the process of producing a multimedia poster about our conference presentation. It asks us to try out three new tools from this list:

Alternatively, we can use other tools if they meet the criteria.

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.