The two web tools I have investigated for my project are Prezi and Animoto.  

I have found that Prezi is pretty neat.  It has a lot of features and seems easy to use.  With a lot of videos on how to use it and videos that show ideas of the things you can do it seems very friendly to new users.  I like the idea of clickable links that can take you from one subject to an area with more information instead of just moving from one slide to another like a Powerpoint. Plus Prezi also has an iPad app for Apple users.  Overall I fell like a Prezi presentation’s look and design is similar to navigating a website.

Animoto was also interesting.  It too takes pride that it differs from the normal slideshow presentation.  Animoto is instead a way to create a multimedia presentation (video) from using text, music and photos.  The main difference is that Animoto does not offer a viewer the option to explore on their own.  This can be a plus or a negative.  On one hand information is presented and a viewer does not have to search for it. On the other there is not a good way to present additional information if a viewer wants to seek it out.  Prezi has this option by adding additional links for people to dive deeper into the information.

Honestly either of these presentations tools would be a good choice.  The one thing I will say is having so many options of what you can do in Prezi seems cool but also overwhelming.