Zoho+Show



Tisha Duncan

Zoho Show:[| www.zohoshow.com]

Zoho Show 2.0 is an online presentation tool. It is supposed to be a step up from desktop presentation tools like PowerPoint. Similar to PowerPoint, Zoho Show has predesigned templates, clipart and some other cool features. When using tools such as, WebEx or AT&T Connect, users have to upload their presentations or share their desktop so that participants can view the presentation. You can host meetings with multiple users using Zoho Show. There is a participant panel as well as live chat capability.
 * About Zoho Show: **

Zoho Show’s main benefits are the following: Zoho Show is FREE for personal use. However, for businesses there is a cost.
 * 1) Users can access their presentation anytime and from anyplace.
 * 2) Presentations can be viewed, edited and shared within a browser.
 * 3) Present to people in remote locations.
 * 4) Post your presentations to your blog or website for others to view.

** Tutorials: ** Zoho Show’s website does provide resources for users to familiarize themselves with the product.

Video Demo on how to use the product: @http://media.zohostatic.com/show/videos/show20/show20video.html New Features Tour: @http://show.zoho.com/help/tour/tour.html Features done as a presentation: @http://show.zoho.com/embed?USER=zohoshow&DOC=show20 Online User Manual: [] Discussion Board: [] Zoho Show Blog: []
 * Additional Resources: **

Zoho Show is really easy to use since it works like PowerPoint. Navigating the application is second nature if you are familiar with PowerPoint. Setting up an account is pretty simple. The problem is trying out a tool like this in the office since we are not permitted to download any applications. Our execs have had so many issues with tools such as AT&T Connect that it would be difficult to get them to think about using a tool that they are not familiar with. If we could use this tool in our office I don't think that the users would have any issues figuring out how to use its features. The website does a pretty good job of describing how to use it and what its latest features are. I think that having all of the capabilities that we currently use in one application is a huge benefit.

** Objective & Lesson Plan: **

Currently, we use multiple tools to design and present content to users in remote locations. We use PowerPoint as a design and presentation tool and AT&T Connect to present to users in remote locations. Sometimes we run into problems uploading our presentation into AT&T’s content editor. Other times, the features used in PowerPoint don’t carry over when the presentation is uploaded to AT&T connect. Zoho Show provides users with a “one stop shop.” I wouldn’t use this tool as a way to enhance learning but for the purposes of building and presenting content.

I have been working on several courses to help employees in other departments design better business presentations/training courses and presenting this information to an audience in a way that won’t put them to sleep. Part I is called Designing Effective Business Presentations and Part II is Presenting Content Live and Online. The end goal of both courses is for the participants to successfully design a presentation/course using Zoho Show and then present their content to our employees either in a training room or online.

The participants taking the class will work on a presentation/course that they have to create for their department. Part I of the course will go over tips on how to design a presentation/course using a presentation tool. The course content will include the following 5 parts; · Part 1 – Creating Objectives · Part II – Determining and Knowing Your Audience · Part III – Determining the Message · Part IV – Organizing Your Content · Part V – Designing the Look of Your Presentation.

Part II will go over tips on how to present content to an audience (I am in the process of creating the content for this course so I don’t have a lesson plan as of yet). The participants could use Zoho Show to build their presentation/course as they would use PowerPoint. Once the presentation/course has been designed and edited, they could use the tool to present the material to a live/online audience.

** Challenges: ** I found the tool easy to use from my home computer but the biggest challenge would be using this tool in the office because I am not permitted to download it. This is similar to using PowerPoint so our employees could use the product with no problem. Another challenge to using a tool like this is getting management to buy into trying something new. Another challenge would be getting the presentations created in Zoho Show into our Learning Management System. I don’t recall seeing any information on their website regarding having the ability to create SCORM compliant presentations. We currently have to import anything that we build into Publisher so that we can upload the content into our LMS. Unless the content built in Zoho Show can be uploaded into Publisher or directly into an LMS then the product would only be useful for live online training.