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W H Y U S E   P R E Z i ?           Prezi is a software where you can create presentations online anytime and anywhere! It has an interesting interface that allows users to zoom in and out of their presentations and incorporates amazing 3D transitions that can enhance their presentations to a whole new level. There are palette tools that teachers and students can use to make and improve creativity to their presentations for classroom discussions, reports and school projects to be more attractive to their audience such as rotating and adding depths to texts and importing other powerpoints.           Prezi, with its up-to-date features, offers convenience to users especially to teachers and students. They can create and save their works online for free via public access and retrieve their works on other devices in order for them to view or continue editing their presentations. Prezi also supports common file types ...

REFLECTION           I totally haven’t heard about Web 2.0 before. It actually caught my attention when I saw this as a task to do. As I start digging out details about this, I find this very interesting. Web 2.0 tools help people create, edit, participate and share informational contents online. Web 2.0 also serves as an open communicator. Teachers consider this very beneficial in a way of tackling lessons in another dimension by browsing other websites that can broaden their discussions. Several tools are free which bring convenience to discover applications that can be used in teaching such as document tools, media tools, presentation tools, community tools, and a lot more to mention. However, enough care must be applied while using these tools to prevent malwares invading our computer’s system. Pop-ups may still be present that are prone to viruses and scam. We just have to choose the right tools that are efficient for us to use. ...

WHY CORE STANDARDS MUST EMBRACE Authors: Richard Beach & Frank W. Baker SUMMARY       We cannot really hide the fact about the youth getting so hooked into devices released throughout the market from time to time. However, studies show that the young generation lacks several skills of being media literate. Youths are not able to access, evaluate, produce, and critically analyze media messages and utilize digital tools properly.      According to Ernest L. Boyer (1989), children must know how to segregate facts from falsifications such as isolation of social cliche, analysis from banter, and important news from coverage. The demonstration of teachers to students about nonprint media was a resolution made by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in 1996 while the necessity of new digital and media literacy was recognized by their executive committee in 2008.      The Partnership for 21st Century Ski...