Why use Powtoon in the classroom?

by Maria Victoria Pineda

We have moved to a decade when all the information we need is just one Google line away– what about FIBA2016? who are the real parents of Jon Snow? or is a tarsier a monkey? At the same time almost all urban spaces have accessed to wifi connection. So if this is the case, then the classrooms, canteens and homes of the learners are no different from the urban space that will allow anybody to read her email, post a photo in FB or instagram or even tweet the coffee place where she is handing out.

So in the classrooms nowadays, teachers are not expected to be the all-know-person when it comes to the subject matter. Teachers are now the coaches that challenge the minds of the learners. Teachers are the experience designers that provide the suitable activities to enhance cognitive momentum among the students. Teachers are now free to ask a question she or he may not be certain about because most likely that the learners are informed or may be more informed if they have developed great desire on the topic.

So there is no point now to make Powerpoint presentations that have 30 or 50 slides. It is too much power for points you want to send across. As a teacher, you may want to develop the topics of your subject matter in other ways and enable intelligent questions or messages through a short, animated presentation like Powtoon. Powtoon is like a presentation movie in 2minutes or 3minutes.

Here is my Powtoon arguing why we have to make a short presentation.

 

 

Here is an example made by one of my trainees last June and he showcased about their province, Trà Vinh in South Viet Nam. Positive messages are sent across about Tra Vinh.

Created by Huynh Khoa of Trà Vinh University

Powtoon as a video explainer or a presentation movie provides a set of easy-to-follow functions on how to create animations. The use of the templates also make it very convenient for a beginner. What is important for any movie presentation is that the content or the message has been planned and thought well. And this should work for teachers who have arranged and prepared well-thought activities to generate the mental and creativity challenges among the students.

Powtoon products can be exported to Youtube or as a Powtoon web link, https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/gfJye1Qppx6/vietnam-is/?mode=movie#/ too.

So here is another channel of making a presentation.. short, straightforward, fresh and reflective..

 

 

 

The Utility of Infographics

There are two popular web applications for creating an infographics, there is Easel.ly and there is Piktochart. Both have marvelous easy-to-use and easy-to-follow templates. Both are also shareable in the web or in social media channels. But why bother create an infographics?

Infographics is a new type of resource material that is compact, comprehensive,  summarizes and simplifies results and aids in understanding a set of facts and details. Many teachers or trainers or even instructional designers should realize that infographics as a new type of resource material can be very useful to send the message they want to tell. They do not have to put all the information and details as they do in their old Powerpoint materials. The audience or the learners themselves can pull the information they need about a topic from various online sources while they read and understand the point the teacher or trainer wants to send across in an infographic.

Other materials that can be created through infographics are: Timelines, Process flows, Visualized data, Comparative or VS infographics, Research infographics or even, Photo infographics.

Here are some examples of infographic resource materials that I use for presentation or as a reference material. See how to use and present them through a web link or simply use the jpg or png material.

Why Use a Gmail and a Google Drive https://magic.piktochart.com/output/13863608-public-why-use-gmail-and-gdrive

Learning English through Songs https://magic.piktochart.com/output/14166479-english-through-songs

Why create an Infographic