Final Presentation: Why Weebly Should be Used in Schools
The tool that I chose to use for this project is Weebly. Weebly is a web creation site where you can make a website of your own for free. I chose to use this tool because I believe that everyone should have the basic knowledge to be able to post things on the web without having to rely on big name social networking sites, and also it can be a very useful thing to have to show off to collages our organizations, just another thing to make you look well put together.
The tools that I chose to use in my presentation are Prezi, Mindomo, Worlde, Pixlr, Youtube, and Weebly. The way that I used each tool was very different, for prezi and mindomo it’s obvious what I used those for, to put my presentation together and to create a basic layout of what I might do. Wordle I used to make a cool title that is shown on my presentation; I thought that the fonts provided were a bit bland, and using the wordle the title gains a little pizazz and strays from the regular titles. The next tool that I used is pixlr; I used this tool to edit two pictures, the first of which is showcased at the beginning of my presentation and is used to get a glimpse at what the websites web creation tool, and while the picture is being displayed I planned on explaining the uses of Weebly. The next picture that I made is showcased at the end of my presentation and is used as a slight play on words as I plan to wrap up with something to do with infinite possibilities (cheesy I know) and shows a kaleidoscope altered picture of weebly almost literally goes into infinity. The next tool that I used was youtube; I used the slideshow creator on youtube, and created a simple slide show that I plan to showcase when I show my demo of creating a website using Weebly. Lastly, I will be using the tool that I’m presenting to show off how awesome the tool is; I plan to do a demo of how simple and easy it is to make a website using weebly, also showing off the large amount of content that you can put on it, i.e. the youtube slideshow that I had mentioned above. The problems I had with this assignment were few and far spread, but none the less there were some. To begin, I had problems with mindomo, simply because it was much more difficult to use than simply drawing out a mind map. The boxes that are used are difficult to handle and when looking as a thing as a whole it’s difficult to see what they say. I can see the use in this if you’re doing a group project with other people, so that you can share ideas on the flash, but if you are working by yourself then the use disappears. Another problem that I had was with prezi; I had trouble making a custom template to show off my product; however this problem was quickly overcome when I used a template that worked well my project. Overall making this final presentation wasn’t that difficult, but I did require a good amount of thinking and planning to decide what tools that you were going to use, and how you were going to effectively use them in your presentation. Because of this, this project could not have been done effectively at the last minute, like other projects that we’ve had or else the rushed feel would surely present it’s self in the presentation. However I do believe that we were given to much time to work on this project, so for me it was difficult to stay on task knowing that we had a good two or more weeks to work on this project. |