#2. Presentation Tools & Screencasting Tools

1. Describe the Presentation Tool or Screencasting Tool you used.  Provide a link to the website.

- I used "Prezi" for making my presentation. When you visit the site, you can simply sign up. Then you will be able to create a presentation. First, you can select a template among several ones. and type in the editing page. If you don't have enough frame, it can be added if you insert new frames. Also, arrows or direct lines  can be drawn. When you finish making the presentation, click disc-shaped button to save your presentation. Or you can have it as a form of PDF file. In the section named "your prezis", the list of presentations made by you will come up.

http://prezi.com/


2. Describe the presentation or activity you created using the tool.  Provide a link to the location of your embedded presentation on your Google Site.

- Using Prezi, I made the presentation which introduces five basic sentence patterns of English. It is geared to being used by teachers of a grammar class and it is for the beginners. My presentation consists of five frames  and each frame, contains the structure of an English sentence, the definition of terms, and the examples of each sentence.

https://sites.google.com/site/hyucallclass/homework


3. Describe your experience using the tool.  Would you recommend it to other teachers?  Why or why not?

- I always used to use Microsoft Office Powerpoint whenever I was to make a presentation. It was because the presentation tool which all that I knew was the only one before I took the third class of CALL. Actually, I saw one of the students in my class use Prezi, but I had no idea what that tool exactly was and how to made it. What I liked the most about Prezi was that it already had a several ready-made templates so I didn't need to spend time decorating the presentation. In other words, it was very convenient to use because all I did was simply to type what I wanted to say about the topic. Also, Prezi had more vivid visual effects than Powerpoint in that it is fun to see slides move to the next slide: it sweeps across somewhere. But the fact that I could not access the more contents unless I pay monthly was the only demerit of Prezi.

  Despite the one shortcoming of Prezi, I would recommend to other teachers to use Prezi because it is simple and easy to use, has a lot of beautiful templates, has vivid and funny visual effects.

4.  Describe potential uses the tool could have in the Korean EFL learning context.

- Considering that the learners are EFL students, they might not have more interest in learning English than ESL students because the former group have less necessity of learning the language than the latter one. As a result, I think that there are a lot of possibilities of getting bored if EFL students just listen to a teacher without any visual aids during the class.

   In this situation, it would be helpful for teachers to make use of Prezi. As I mentioned above in answering question number 3, Prezi has more visuality than Powerpoint. According to my previous experience as a listener of the presentation made by Prezi, I could concentrate more on it because of the vivid visual aids. Likewise, if teachers use this presentation tool in EFL classroom, it would help draw learners' attention more so they could listen up.
   In the aspect of the property of Prezi, it could be perfectly used when teachers are to explain a new concept, especially in a deductive way. It is because I noticed that many of Prezi's templates had a structure that showed categorization. Or since some other templates had a step-by-step process, it also could be effective when a teachers are planning to show the history of English language or else.