Presentation Tools

Presentation Tools Other Than PowerPoint

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Presentation Choices

Here are three examples of a project about President John F. Kennedy. The examples contain the same content, however, the information is presented in a different format in each project.

Tutorials/Resources:

Videolicious Academy

Videolicious Blog Post & Video Example - Physics

Prezi

Prezi Tutorials on Sophia Learning

Prezi about Prezi

Animoto

Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto from Read Write Think

Sources for JFK Presentations

Examples of assignments that give students choices:

Tic Tac Techo

Choice Board

Articles:

Liven Up Your Lessons by Giving Students Choices

Empowering Students: Add Choice to Assignments

Student Choice and Engagement - Ohio Research Center

Smore (www.smore.com)

Create professional-looking online flyers that can be used by students and teachers for a variety of activities. This easy to use website has a pricing structure that needs to be considered before you begin. The free version allows you to create 5 flyers per month. The paid Educator version gives you unlimited flyers and has several educational backgrounds.

Tutorials:

Smore User Guide

How to Use Smore

Directions for a Class Using Smore to Create Reports

Student Directions for Creating a Smore Space Project

Examples:

Digital Research Kit for 6th Grade ELA

Who Should Be on the Next US Postage Stamp?

Fun Critical Thinking Activities

iPad Lesson Ideas

Pause Before You Post

TACKK (www.tackk.com)

Students and teachers can create interactive websites for free usingTackk.com. There is not a limit to the number of sites you can create in your account.

Tutorials:

How to Use Tackk in Your Classroom

Info from Free Technology for Teachers

Tackk SnapGuide

Tackk in the Classroom

10 Ideas for Using Tackk for Class Assignments

Examples:

Digital Storytelling in Math

3rd Grade Art Show

8th Grade Biography Project

Modern vs. Ancient Archery

Class Reflection

Nearpod

Are you ready to learn something new?

Open www.nearpod.com.

Click on the Join Session button.

Type in the Pin Number the teacher gives you.

Wait for the teacher to begin.

Nearpod also has an App for most devices!

ThingLink (www.thinglink.com)

ThingLink is a free, web-based tool and app that allows the user to upload an image and create interactive links to text, music, video, sound and weblinks.

Note - Use the EDU version and setup student accounts under you name.

Tutorials:

Using ThingLink Beyond the Classroom Walls

ThingLink Launches Teacher Accounts with Safe Search & Student Signup

Four Ways to Think About Using ThingLink

Examples:

Graphing Linear Inequalities

Algebra Problem

Classical Composers

500+ ThinkLink Educational Examples

Google Docs for Learning

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy & Web 2.0 Tools

Class Reflection

Virtual Manipulatives for the iPad

My Texas

Sewing Machine

Bulb

Bulb allows you to combine text, videos and images to create and publish portfolios, projects, lessons and presentations.

Bulb is free, however, educators can upgrade to the Pro version for private publishing. Click here for pricing information.

AP Studio Art Student Example

Coppell (Texas) High School's Anatomy and Physiology Showcase Portfolio

Beginning of the Year Survival Guide

App Smashes and Flows: Choose Your Own iAdventure

Haiku Deck (www.haikudeck.com)

Haiku Deck is a free presentation tool that focuses on a simple idea utilizing images and a small amount of text. Remember the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words"? Haiku Deck is the perfect tool to tell a powerful story with amazing images.

Tutorials:

Tutorial - How To Use the New Haiku Deck Web App

Haiku Deck Tips and Tricks

Haiku Deck SnapGuide

Examples:

76 Examples of Using Haiku Deck in School

Presentation Ideas

10 Ways to Use Haiku Deck In Education

Tired of PowerPoint? Try Haiku Deck!

Haiku Examples

There's and App for that!

Animoto for Education

Animoto for Education is one of the original sites that allow you to create videos from your photos, videos and audio files. Your students will find many creative ways to use this program! Make sure you go to Animoto education because teachers don’t have to pay to use Animoto!

Vocabulary

Meet Mr. Clark

Civil Rights Examples

Tellagami

Tellagami (free) allows you to create and share quick animated videos called Gamis.

Google Play Store

Tellagami EDU ($4.99) - Worth the price!

Google Play Store

For an awesome presentation, App Smash Tellagami and Green Screen App ($2.99) by Doink! Use an inexpensive green plastic tablecloth as your background!

Click here for directions.

Adobe Slate

Adobe Slate - Turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous story. Your Slate web story gets its own URL and can be shared via text message, email, posted on social media accounts or embedded on blogs or personal websites.

Adobe Slate is a free IOS App lets you easily create beautiful presentations that can be read on any device. Images used in the presentations can be from the camera roll or from a Creative Commons image search within the app. The images found in the Creative Commons search are automatically cited.

Students will need an Adobe ID or the teacher can create a classroom Adobe ID account for all of their students to use.

Student Example

Teacher Testimonial - Adobe Slate: Empower Students

Doceri

Blendspace

Blendspace for Schools (free)

Google Play Store

EdPuzzle

EDpuzzle is a site that allows teachers to choose or upload a video and customize it by and add questions to create an engaging interactive lesson.

Open EdPuzzle.com.
Click Login.
Select Student.
Click Login with Google.
Click Add Class.
Type in the Code - eZ4rxg. It is case sensitive!
Click Join the Class.
Choose the Blue Start Button under the video.
Click the Play button to begin the assignment.
Click the Back button.
Click Add Class.
Type in the Code - e9LGZd. It is case sensitive!
Click Join the Class.
Watch my EdPuzzle tutorials

JigZone

Do your students struggle learning their vocabulary words? Make your vocabulary an interactive experience for you students by making your Word Wall/vocabulary words a jigsaw puzzle in JigZone.

Create a PowerPoint slide for each of your vocabulary words. Make sure you have the word, the definition and an image depicting the word.
1. Save your PowerPoint as a JPEG and each slide will become a JPEG image.
2. Upload each JPEG image into JigZone.
3. Create a PowerPoint with hyperlinks linking a text box or image to the JigZone puzzle.
If you have Promethean or Smart software, you can insert the links into a presentation instead of PowerPoint.

Example

40 Sites & Apps for Creating Presentations

Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero

by dkapuler dkapuler@gmail.com

9Slides - A wonderful site and app for adding video/audio narration to a presentation. Ideal for professional development or teaching a lesson.
Animoto - One of the most popular sites/apps for creating beautiful looking slideshows w/ an educational portal.
AuthorStream - A great way to upload PPT presentations and share them w/ others similar to Slideshare.
Aximedia Slideshow Creator - A wonderful Android app for creating stunning looking slideshows.
Biteslide - A fantastic site for creating interactive presentations that contain all types of media w/ educational portal, where teachers create student accounts.
Electric Slide - Is a nice iOS app that allows users to present all styles of presentations (PPT, Keynote, etc) wirelessly.
eMaze - A nice site that is a cross between Prezi and PP that allows users to zoom around their presentation. Best of all, a finished presentation can be embedded into a site.
Flixtime - A cool site for mixing photos, videos, and music to create a stunning presentation.
Haiku Deck - A amazing iPad app for creating beautiful looking presentations w/ the ability to upload Creative Commons licensed photos as well as creating charts and graphs.
HelloSlide - A innovative site that allows a user to add narration to their presentations simply by typing in text.
Kizoa - A fun site for creating slideshows or collages w/ a built in photo editor.
Knovio - A nice site for adding video or audio to a powerpoint presentation. Ideal for Pecha Kucha style presentations.
Magisto - A cool way to create a presentation w/ this video mash-up site/app.
Muvee Cloud - Another nice video mash-up site that creates fun looking movies/presentations by mixing and matching video and music.
Narrable - An innovative site for adding audio to photos to create an engaging slideshow.
Netclick - While Netclick is more of a "student response system" it is a great way to engage an audience through the use of an interactive slideshow.
One True Media - A fantastic video mash-up site for mixing video, audio, and images to creating stunning presentations.
PhotoPeach - One of my favorite sites/apps for creating an interactive slideshow w/ educational portal. A user can also create a quiz embedded into a slideshow as well.
Photoshow (Roxio) - A nice site for creating slideshows w/ photos, videos, and music, and sharing publicly or privately.
PhotoSnack - A fun site for creating slideshows for blogs, FB, or Twitter.
Popcorn Maker - One of the easiest video mash-ups sites around to creating stunning presentations.
PowToon - Is a new (beta) and wonderful site for creating amazing animated slideshows/presentations.
Present.me - A great site for "flipping" your classroom by adding a video narration side by side to a slideshow.
Reel - A simple site for uploading presentations to garner feedback and self assessment.
Slide.ly - Create a beautiful looking presentation w/ images and music.
Slideful - A fun site for creating beautiful looking slideshows.
Sliderocket - A easy to use site for creating visually engaging slideshows, recently purchased by ClearSlide.
Slideroll - A nice site/app to create slideshows and publish them on the web.
Slideshare - One of the most popular sites around for uploading and sharing presentations in a secure environment.
SlideShark - A nice iOS app for view and editing PPT on the iPhone or iPad.
Slideshow Creator - SSC on Google+ is probably one of the most popular way to create slideshows in a safe environment for students.
Smilebox - A very popular site for creating beautiful looking slideshows, collages, presentations and more.
Soo Meta - A wonderful site for "flipping" a classroom and creating excellent looking presentations that can be embedded into a blog or site. Also, there are nice features such as: the ability to embed a poll into a presentation, track usages statistics, and more.
Speaker Deck - A great site for uploading a PDF then turning them into a slideshow that can be embedded into a site or blog.
Swipe - A new (private beta) site for creating beautiful looking slideshows that can be used on any device.
TotSplash - An innovative presentation and brainstorming tool for creating engaging presentations that can be embedded into a site/blog.
Vivapitch - A nice plugin for PPT and Android to engage audiences on mobile devices.
Vizlingo - A cool site for making a slideshow out of text.
Vuvox - A great site for creating stunning presentations and slideshows.
WebSlides - A neat way to turn Diigo bookmarks into interactive slideshows.

Hetemeel

Hetemeel's Einstein lets you recreate this famous image with your own words on the chalkboard.

Open the site and type your message.
Click Preview Image (you might have to play with the spacing).
Right click on your image and select Save As.
Navigate to the location where you want to save your image.

Hetemeel has other designs available, but not all of them are appropriate for school!

Canva Graphic Design (www.canva.com)

Canva is not a presentation tool, however, it is very helpful when trying create professional-looking and creative presentations. Canva is an online graphic design tool that is simple to use to create your own logos, banners, etc. to use in your presentations. There are both free and paid images available, but you should be able to find enough free images to create a professional-looking graphic.

IOS App

Resources:

25+ EDU Lesson Plans and Resources for Canva by Lisa Johnson

Canva Tutorials

A Simple Video Guide to Canva

Create Amazing Images with Ease

Using Images in Your Projects

J2 Training - Janet Corder & Joan Gore

Resources

Tony Vincent from Learning in Hand has created a video regarding the use of digital images in your projects. Click here to view the video on You Tube.

The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons by The Edublogger

CC Image Search by @digichica

Where Can I Find Images?

Free Images for Your Projects by Tony Vincent

Photos for Class - This site from Storyboard That includes age-appropriate images and automatically includes a citation for each image.

Pics-4-Learning - The images on this site are copyright-free for teachers and students to use in an educational setting.

Open Clipart - This site includes free vector clip art.

Unsplash - Every 10 days, 10 new high-resolution photos are added to the site. You are free to use the photos for any purpose.

Pixabay - Thousands of high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics are included on this website.

The Noun Project - This website aggregates and catalogs symbols that have been created and uploaded by graphic designers.

Plixs - Thousands of high quality free photos with Creative Commons License

7 Excellent Resources for Public Domain Pictures Every Teacher Should Know About by Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Top 5 Sites to Find Images for Student Use by Kathleen McGeady

Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media

Let's Take a Look at Shutterfly

Classroom Share sites by Shutterfly are free private websites where teachers and parents can upload photos and videos and share with others. The site can be managed from an app on your mobile device.Free, unlimited photo storage!

Example Site

iPhone App

Android App

Copyright Free Photos