Monday, December 7, 2015

Blog Post 4 - Visual Media and the Oral Presentation

Visual media presentations do NOT equal Power Point. It's very sad, but true. But, depending on the site that you use, visual media presentations can be fun and exciting.

The purpose of visual media projects is to help convince audiences of your way of thinking, to buy something, or to call for action. By using these projects, it is possible to not only tell an audience, but to show them, too. By utilizing passion, common interests, and effective visual displays, it's possible to sell, convince, introduce, or educate products and ideas.

Today, I'm going to recommend two sites for visual media presentations.


Image from Slides.com
 Slides.com is an excellent site for the first time presenter. It is the site that is closest to Power Point, easy to use and navigate, and great for presentations. Users can change the background color, upload images and use them in presentations, and the site offers a variety of text sizes, colors, fonts, and options. It may be a bit confusing at first, but the site offers tutorials to help the user acclimate to the site. The best feature to me was the auto save feature. If I forgot to save, I didn't have to worry due to the auto save. It was a real time saver in the end. Another awesome feature was the ability to remotely control the presentation by phone.

Image from Prezi.com
 The second site is Prezi.com. I personally didn't use this site, but the presentations I've seen are amazing. My teammates and I used Prezi for our team proposal project because it's very interactive. I'd still prefer to use Slides over Prezi, simply because when I worked to edit our project, I found that it was a bit harder to use and navigate.

In the end, there are multiple sites out there that offer different features, It's best to find the one that works best for you as a user.

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