Web Tools Course: Cracow 2013 I am attending a course about computers and Web applications. It is very interesting.
Here is some information about Prez., one of the technologies we looked at: Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas. “Prezi allows us to communicate design ideas with our clients in a highly engaging and dynamic way, liberating interesting conversations from the boredom of one-way presentations.” — Randy Howder, Design Strategist, Gensler Seeing is believing and a picture can tell a thousand words, but a picture doesn’t tell an entire story. A visual story has a flow and narrative, where images and words work together to present an idea or lesson. Use Prezi’s open canvas to construct a story arc, where visual context leads the viewer on a path of discovery. To understand complexity, one must zoom out to see the big picture and in to see the details. Prezi’s 3-dimensional canvas is a virtual space where you can delve deeper and pan wider to broaden the conversation. People remember spaces and stories. Prezi's use of spatial metaphor helps your audience remember your content better. Each prezi is a place where you can use spatial metaphor to engage your audience’s memory.
Prezi Basics Prezi’s zooming presentation software lets you choose between the freedom of the cloud, the security of the desktop, or the mobility of the iPad. We also toured some of the amazing sites around Cracow Below is the salt mine we saw yesterday. A church is located within the salt mine. Kirsti sang a song in the church!
I visited Schindler’s factory also. This is well worth a visit. Here is some information about Oscar Schindler: Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist, German spy, and member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark, and the subsequent 1993 film Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, and dedication in order to save the lives of his Jewish employees.
This was his factory.
Schindler was arrested twice on suspicion of black market activities and once for breaking the Nuremberg Laws by kissing a Jewish girl, an action forbidden by the Race and Resettlement Act. The first arrest, in late 1941, led to him being kept overnight. His secretary arranged for his release through Schindler's influential contacts in the Nazi party. His second arrest, on 29 April 1942, was the result of his kissing a Jewish girl on the cheek at his birthday party at the factory the previous day. He remained in jail five days before his influential Nazi contacts were able to obtain his release.[56] The third arrest, where he was accused of black marketeering and bribing Gรถth and others to improve the conditions of the Jewish workers, took place in October 1944. He was held for most of a week and released.[57] Gรถth had been arrested on 13 September 1944 for corruption and other abuses of power, and Schindler's arrest was part of the ongoing investigation into Gรถth's activities.[58] Gรถth was never convicted on those charges, but was hanged for war crimes on 13 September 1946.[59]