Types of Presentation Tools

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PRESENTATION TOOLS AND THEIR ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE

PRESENTATION TOOLS:

1. Power Point

Advantage

- Powerpoint encourages and supports teaching learning process by facilitating the material presentation. The template provided is designed to default to good presentation criteria such as the number of lines of information in each slide and appropriate font sizes. The use of the default templates can improve the clarity and the arrangement of a presentation. It helps the teacher avoid the common use of excessive text often found on OHV (Over Head Projector). This program is also advantages in the sense that the icons used are very simple because they are similar with those in the Microsoft Word.

Disadvantage

- These are several risky factors associated with the using of Powerpoints are:

· Equipment Failure

· File Corruption

· Incompatible Media

· The Most Abuses

- The most common abuses in Powerpoint use for teaching and learning include visually poor or boring slide. Too many text on the slide do not support good reading text, other abuses for example, are too much animation or over use of transitions.

2. Prezi

Advantage

- Default templates

- Prezi Presentations are made via the internet which doesn’t limit you to one device allowing easy to access to your presentation wherever you are.

- Your Prezi Presentations can be a lot more engaging than Powerpoint or Keynote.

- By using Prezi you can make your presentation public for anyone to watch in their own time.

- Prezi allows you to share information online.

- Prezi is also free for students.

Disadvantage

- The disadvantage of Prezi is that your presentation can easily feel unstructured. If too much zooming and panning is used your audience can feel dizzy and a bit nauseous. Your don’t have rich editing tools for creating graphics or charts in Prezi, you need to create the using some other tool and then import them into your canvas as an image or video.

3. Apple Keynote

Advantage

- Quality Presentation

- Touch Optimized

- Graphing Functions

- Useable Offline

- Online and Desktop Application

- Quality Themes

- Remote Controlled

Disadvantage

- Cost Money

- Apple Ecosystem

- Requires Apple Hardware

- Requires Apple ID & IOS

4. Google Slides

Advantage

· Ease of use. Google Slides is not difficult to learn. Help files are incorporated, although they don’t seem to be as extensive as in some of the other packages. There are quite a few third party resources to help you learn Google Slides.

· Web-based. The online files are always current and up-to-date. You can also easily link or embed your document into a web page.

· Collaboration. It’s easy for colleagues and team members to access and edit documents through the web no matter what device they are working on. Changes can be made simultaneously in different parts of the same presentation.

· Innovative. Google Slides has several innovative features. For example, the new Q & A feature that allows audiences to interact with a speaker through a link looks like a promising feature to hold audience engagement for those who make public presentation.

Disadvantage

· Fewer Choices. Google Slides has fewer choices for effects. There are also fewer themes, though Envato Market has a good selection of choices. Some users find the program features to be too basic.

· Gmail Account Required. If you don’t currently have a Google account, you will need one to use this package. However, you can sign up for an account free of charge.

5, Haiku Deck

Advantage

- Beautiful presentations: there are no confusing or cluttered slides with this app. The design elements are clear and beautiful. If having a well-designed presentation is important to you, this is a great tool.

- You can save the presentation as a video.

- Search for and embed Youtube videos into the presentation.

- Provides more than 40M+ royalty free images.

- You can export your project and work with your other tools.

Disadvantage

- Its pretty much pay-for only (4.99/ month yearly paid).

- You cannot customize presentations anyway you want.

- If you can't save it to the server, all your info can be lost.

- There is no undo.

- Loading and applying changes takes time.

- No animations of transition for the slides.

6. Photosnack

Advantage

- The advantages of Photo snack is its being an easy photo slideshow maker. It has a ready music and beautiful design templates. Online albums integration and no features limitations.

- The disadvantages of Photo snack are its strict premium download options and there are no noted and subtitle features.