I have used both Prezi and Google Presentation so I decided to try out BlendSpace. How fun to have another presentation tool and one that is similar but has enough differences to make it interesting to the students who have seen a million slideshows in their day by teachers! I had the students view it when they came into class before we started on the lessons for the day. We reviewed everything once they were done and I explained that this was a resource that they would be able to use if they ever needed a refresher for our keyboarding skills. The students liked the set up of it and how one frame/slide explained what the next was going to be about but that they could see the whole thing before starting it up.
I think that this would fall under the augmentation area of the SAMR model. The students aren't creating anything on their own but they are viewing information in the different way using technology. Instead of just listening to a lecture or reading from a book or worksheet they are able to use the tool in place of that and also have interactive things like videos throughout it to guide them.
I think that this would fall under the augmentation area of the SAMR model. The students aren't creating anything on their own but they are viewing information in the different way using technology. Instead of just listening to a lecture or reading from a book or worksheet they are able to use the tool in place of that and also have interactive things like videos throughout it to guide them.