#easely.ly

Les competències bàsiques de l’àmbit digital les vam aprendre a través del vídeo d’en Jordi Adell ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjC1LOC0r1g&feature=youtu.be ) on de manera molt clara ens explica el camp d'acció tan gran que ocupa aquesta nova manera d'enfrontar el coneixement i aprenentatge. On tots tenim l'oportunitat de conviure. Però són eines més per a la gent jove, que de veritat van néixer enmig de la informàtica.

Seguidament vam fer ús de:  Videonote (www.videonot.es), on vam fer una síntesi sobre les idees principals. I també de : easel.ly, per tal de crear aquesta iconografia on s’hi pot mostrar la informació dels diferents 4 tipus de competències digitals. 

A més a més, finalment vam realitzar un qüestionari sobre elles, valorant de l’1 al 5 i fent una breu explicació a través d’exemples.   

Vam tractar la Competència digital a les xarxes a través d’un vídeo de l’expert i docent de les TIC, Jordi Adell (https://youtu.be/tjC1LOC0r1g) .

Un cop vist el vídeo, vam fer ús de l’eina: Videonote (www.videonot.es), on vam copiar el link del vídeo i a mesura que l’explicació anava avançant podíem prendre nota fent una síntesi sobre les idees principals i a la vegada, quedava enregistrat el minut del vídeo per si volies tornar a fer referència o veure’l altre cop poder fer-ho amb més facilitat.

Sota el meu punt de vista, una eina d’ajuda i suport molt útil que sempre va bé fer-ne ús en comptes d’anar i tornar a un document del Word.

Tot seguit, durant aquesta sessió a classe vam fer ús del programa: easel.ly, per tal de crear aquesta iconografia on s’hi pot mostrar la informació dels diferents 4 tipus de competències digitals. 

I do quite a bit of work in PowerPoint (as do most professional these days) and have come to realize that my clients have varying appetites for how complex and fancy my presentations are. In certain industries, the clients would prefer to have a simple white background with bulleted points. Nothing else. Maybe some clip art if we're feeling excited. Then I have other clients who LOVE to see well engineered, well designed, aesthetically award-winning slides.

More recently, I've come across a few clients in the consumer electronics industry who are looking for something new. PPT just doesn't cut it for them anymore. Their executives prefer to see information presented in more creative ways. I don't believe that I am the only one with this experience, and until MS decides to really spruce up the functionality of PowerPoint, it will remain relatively constrained in it's ability to showcase information in new creative ways. I'd like to share a few alternatives to PPT that I've been exploring recently (admittedly these are by no means 'new' - but not widely used with my clients).

Wordle: Ironically created by a former IBMer, this application generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The more often the words appear in the text you provide, the larger they are relative to the other words. Here is an example of a worlde based on my last blog post. I've found wordle particularly effective in showing discussion trends (or analyzing clusters of free form text).

Prezi: The video explains this concept much more appropriately. Be careful with this one, too much complexity in the presentation may actually cause nausea...

Easely.ly:This tool allows you to create and share neat infographics. It has an easy-to-use drag and drop functionality that makes it easy to learn and efficient. I have recently used easely.ly to create infographic representations of data analysis. Rather than the typical tables, bar graphs, and pie charts, these infographics make it easier to communicate a message. Here's an example: