CPD23 – Thing 17: Prezi and Thing 18: Jing

Although I’m aware of both of these tools I’ve never used them. I’ve been meaning to try out Prezi for some time just to have another option to PowerPoint for any presentation I might need to do. I’ve had a quick play and my first impressions are that it’s going to take some getting used to! I’m not particularly creative so I’m finding it quite hard to visualise how my Prezi is going to turn out. It’s also hard to do when I don’t have anything in particular that I need to create at the moment. I will persevere and try to get something created that looks vaguely ok and doesn’t induce motion sickness!

Jing also looks interesting as we don’t use this type of tool for creating any help materials at the University library where I work at the moment. However, as my job doesn’t get me directly involved in this type of thing it’s something I’ll need to spend more time figuring out so I can come up with some useful content.

As I’m way behind on CPD23 as it is and trying to catch up I think I’ll leave Prezi and Jing on my list of things to try out and explore in more depth later.