Here is the link to my Prezi presentation "A Person's National Identity is Determined By..." The screen shot is below.
Here is the Creative Commons license for the presentation. I just may be dumb, I couldn't figure out how to put it on the presentation itself.
Once I become more facile with how do make presentations, I could see a number of uses for this with students. In world history I could see kids having to define the criteria for certain concepts and using the visual elements to "rank" which of the criteria were more important for a certain civilization or time period. In philosophy, I could see my kids using this to create presentations about specific philosophers and the factors that influenced their ideas, both internal and external.
I think this would be much more useful than Powerpoint. Once you get over the initial learning curve, I think the few choices kids get to make in terms of colors and backgrounds and fonts, requires them to put more into the content.
Here is the screen shot of zoomed in section of my AP World History web page. I have a Mac and followed the instructions on the System Preferences screen, but it still took me a bit to get just the right feel on the trackpad so it didn't pop up a set of Finder choices. I also had a problem using Jing to take just the screen shot I wanted. To engage the app after you have zoomed in requires scrolling across the window and then scroll back. But I could quite get the selection box to move exactly where I wanted it to snap a picture. I couldn't get it to go far enough up or to the opposite side of the screen to get the shot I wanted. Again, this is probably a problem that would get solved with more use and experimentation. I definitely could use this tool when I try to explain elements of visual primary documents in the AP world history course. Kids have difficulty identifying symbols and their meaning in cartoons and this would be a big help to spot the more subtle elements.
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