In this review I will be looking at my two favourite applications. The first is Word, this I consider to be a must for any student. With this universally used, versatile piece of software you can create any document for any scenario from handouts, to lesson plans and handbooks to novels, reports, critical assessments and assignments to note keeping. Since having being forced to use it in my previous
occupation as a police officer (and hating it) I have grown to love it. It is a must for all new students and I would wholly recommend it to them. A word (excuse the pun) however of caution, always remember to save it in multiple areas such as a memory stick or an external hard drive or in the cloud on for example OneDrive. It does have a tendency to have a mind of its own and work can be lost.
PowerPoint ! Where do I start ? It is simply the best and easiest presentation tool as far as I am concerned. It does what it says on the tin. I am new to the Presentation game but as a novice even I with my digital technological adolescence phase can create a professional looking presentation. It is easy to create a simple presentation and I am now even creating sentences that 'fly in' and 'appear' out of thin air on screen. I am having fun in finding and using these tools which are completely new to me. This is one I am already using with my students and as part of my assessments in my PCET. However, I do like Prezi but I think for creating a quick presentation it has to be PowerPoint.
Where would we be without YouTube ? It is a teachers font of information. Almost any subject has an educational video or presentation or documentary that can be found on this amazing piece of technology. This is one I have used myself in class in my micro teach, where I found a clip of a television news show which had a report on a public disorder situation at which I was present in my capacity as a police officer at that time in the 1990's. It is very useful in the classroom either as a gap filler, or to deliver an informative documentary or as an explanation of the subject matter you are teaching. It is also one I have used with my placement students to refresh their memory on Harvard Referencing, where University students in England produced a basic Harvard referencing guide and placed it on YouTube, and it is definitely an application that I will be using with my students again due to its ease of use and it free availability as long as there is an internet connection and a facility to use it in the classroom. 
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