Assignment+3

Love Your Library 2.0 Prezi:

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Reflection:

I decided to create a Prezi for Assignment 3 mostly because I had never used the tool before and I know how incredibly popular it is with my school librarians. I felt that I could be the most creative with this tool and thought I could do the best job with the assignment utilizing this tool. To complete the assignment I had to try to put myself in the shoes of a students, who I would try to advocate for utilizing this Prezi. Using imaginary quotes and imaginary students, I thought of some things that students might say the enjoyed about the library since I took it over in September. Once I had those set, I decided to look for pictures on the Creative Commons portion of Flickr. I found a great user, Enokson, whose pictures were fantastic and perfect to use to complete this assignment and simulate a documentation of student involvement in the library and with me. I decided to go with the theme of "Who Care About the School Library?" because I wanted to encompass the feeling of many adolescent teenagers about pretty much everything that goes on in school which is: who cares? I figured by designed the Prezi in a style that would be endearing to them: the neon colors are really popular with middle and high school aged kids, that this would work. While the main audience of this Prezi is students, I purposely made the wording and messages throughout the Prezi generic so that it would not seem that I was singling out students for not caring about the library, but so that it would also be appealing to parents that may happen to find it on the school website.

I learned that Prezi has a steeper learning curve than many of the other Web 2.0 tools that are available for students to use today. It also takes a little bit of time to get used to the overall feel of the program and getting familiar with the pinwheel like device in the upper left hand corner of the screen that controls everything. However, once that is learned, I think that it works effectively and quite well. Prezi's are more engaging and more fun to look at and design than PowerPoints, however they do take longer to create than PowerPoint presentations and take a little bit more detail than PowerPoint presentations do. I think that next time I might plan a little bit more before beginning to complete a Prezi. I think that if you have more planned out as far as what you want to say and how you want to say it, completing the Prezi would take less time. I am happy with how my Prezi came out and I feel that I am now very comfortable using this important Web 2.0 tool.