Week 4: My Brainshark!

This week, we have been introduced to Brainshark. 
 Above is my example of presentation using Brainshark. Do you enjoy it?

WHAT IS IT?
It is a very brilliant tool where people can create on-demand video presentations quickly and easily. On-demand communications involves people sharing and accessing information at different times on their own schedules, such as via email, social media or online video.This website provides a high impact and low cost means of communication. It also enable viewing activity and collect interactive feedback from your audience. Therefore, with the help of this tool, one can measure how impactful his/her presentation is. Presentation can be in power points, photo albums, podcasts and many more.

Brainshark is often used by Marketing, Sales, Channels, Training and HR to deliver on demand communications to internal and external audiences, and to better engage and communicate with prospects, customers, partners and employees.

How to use it in class?

1. Teacher introduced the website and its key benefits and uses.

2. Teacher demonstrated with the students to create a content of a presentation. For example, about their family or pet.

3. In pair, students are required to create a presentation. Audio, music or anything can be added to make the presentation more interesting. Grammar,word stress and etc. are expected to have in the audio recording.

4. Teacher and students pick the best presentation and do reflection on the activity.

Benefits?

1. Students and teachers can always refer to the records of presentation to assess learners' progress in learning

2. Train students to practise their presentation on their own, and less intimidating as there is no real audience. 

3. Teacher can save lots of time especially when there is time constraint in listening to each of the students' presentation.

4. Great tool for distance-learning.

Weakness?

1. When it is overused, sometimes it might not really help students to build their confident level as there is no real audience when they are presenting.

2. Teachers cannot view students' facial expression and body language while presenting. They are the important elements in a good presentation.

3. Without the teachers supervision, students may not pay attention to the presentation.

4. Not all computers have a good sound system for students to record their audio.

Below is another example of my presentation using audio recording. Enjoy!