Create presentations with PowToon
Powerpoint presentations are often mainly sleep-inducing. The reason is very simple: it is a typical example of not being able to think out of the box. Do you still remember the time-honored overhead projector? You printed a number of slides with a lot of text and you took a blank sheet. You used that step by step to make the contents of your slides visible on your overhead projector. And Powerpoint that brought nothing new. Old wine, you know. Instead of printing your text on slides, you could project it directly. Powerpoint even brought more disadvantages than advantages: more and more slides, more and more text and ... the all-feared animations. Text came from now on at will, blown in, flown, twisted, ...
It seems that even people have succumbed to it: dead by Powerpoint.
Prezi was already an improvement. Finally something new to give presentations. The logical idea of one canvas on which everything stood was left. Compare it with a schematic representation of the whole of your contents. Suddenly, mutual connections became clear and the visualization became an added value: the visual content we remember much better than the typical Powerpoint summaries.
But can it be even better? PowToon is certainly a creditable attempt. In the first place one plays on the redundancy effect. Bulleted lists are omitted as much as possible and the visual aspect of your presentation takes over definitively from the written content. After all, your content does not have to be typed on your presentation to be read, but you just have to communicate it to your audience orally. Why? Because we can read faster than we can hear. So your enumeration in your Powerpoint slide has been read much faster by your audience than you can tell. And that is why the boredom so quickly hits your audience.
Are there no disadvantages to PowToon?
Certainly. First of all, the approach is rather American. You know: everything has to go fast and you have to use the word awesome very regularly. In my humble opinion, Powtoon is also more suited to make an online video of your presentation than to bring live to an audience. But ... is not that the intention if we can believe the adepts of blended learning?
And oh yes ... do you want to transcend your free account? Then it costs you $ 228. Per year…
Notwithstanding PowToon is mainly focused on business, people also think about education. For this purpose they wrote the book Cartoons in the classroom, free to download at https://s3.amazonaws.com/powtoon/books/Cartoons-in-the-Classroom-Book.pdf
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