Creative ways to Present with 21st Century Tools

Presentation Tools

Prezi: A fun alternative to Powerpoint that allows you to organize your information visually

SlideRocket: Import your Power Point or Google presentations to store in the cloud or build presentations that include audio, video, and visual components

Mixbook: Create custom photo books, scrapbooks, or cards

Voicethread: Online meeting and collaboration tool that allows a group to meet, share, or edit together using written, typed, or voice notes for each other

Timeline: Create digital timelines that can include content from a variety of online resources including YouTube, Flikr, Google Maps, etc.

MuseumBox: Add items, including text, images, and video, to a digital box to make a point or describe an event or person

Voki: Create a digital avatar to deliver your message in the classroom, on a blog, a website, or as part of a presentation

Tikatok: Allows students and teachers to create their own books and add their own words and illustrations

Yodio: Create, produce, and share presentations with a voice narration, visual components, and production options

Zooburst: Creat your own 3D, interactive, digital pop-up books

ToonDoo: Create custom cartoons and comic strips

Glogster: Create interactive digital posterboards and presentations

Animoto: Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music

Popplet: Create digital idea webs, collect materials related to a subject, or create a digital posterboard

Lino: create and organize your sticky notes digitally on a computer or smart phone, or post and share thoughts and pictures

Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually

Wordle: Create word clouds with a variety of color and formatting options to print, save, or share

Piktochart: Create easy, fun infographics to convey information visually

Qwiki: Combine pictures, videos, infographics, tweets, and lots more into a presentation Video Resources

WeVideo: Edit video collaboratively in the cloud, then share with others

Movie Maker: Free software download for making custom videos, importing and editing slideshows and videos, and adding soundtracks to video content

C-SPAN: C-SPAN's entire repository of videos about Congress, Politics, books, and American History

TED Talks: Videos of talks given at TED conferences on subjects ranging from education to particle physics, sortable by subject, length, or rating

Animoto: Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music


Pictures and Images

PicMonkey: Edit photos and create custom collages

Pics4learning: Free educational images with no copyright restrictions

Wordle: Create word clouds with a variety of color and formatting options to print, save, or shareT

Tagxedo: Word clouds created in a customizable shape (faces, countries, letters) that can be printed on shirts, mugs, etc.

Animoto: Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music

Photo Story 3: Downloadable software to create photo slideshows, edit photos, and add special effects

Ookaboo: Free stock photos available without copyright watermarks

Veezzle: Free stock photo search engine

Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually

Piktochart: Create easy, fun infographics to convey information visually


Audio Resources

Soundbooth: Adobe software for audio editing and production

Audacity: Free audio editing and recording Websites and Online


Classrooms

Weebly: Easy website creation tool

Schoology: Classroom management system that organizes lesson plans, helps create and manage tests and quizzes, and provide online access to students

Edmodo: Create online class groups to push assignments, questions, and upcoming dates to students and to solicit online feedback from them by class

Remind 101: site that allows teachers to safely text students homework, project, and test reminders, and stay in touch with parents

Zunal: Free, online WebQuest maker

ClassJump: Free teacher website maker that allows for class-by-class individualization and online work submission by students

Wix: Website creator with a variety of templates and tools for a professional-looking site

Jing: Create videos of what you see on your computer screen to share with others

Screencast-o-matic: Create videos of what's happening on your computer screen to share with others

QuikQR: Free QR Code generator

Tagul: Create word clouds of tags or links to present ideas visually

Widgetbox: Create your own mobile web apps and web widgets

Tinyurl: Create short, customizable, easy to remember web addresses in place of long, unwieldly addresses to easily direct students to a site


Quizzes and Polls

Survey Monkey: Create and distribute your own survey, then analyze the results

Polldaddy: Create surveys, polls, and quizzes, then generate reports on the results

Polleverywhere: Create quick polls that collect responses via text, web, or Twitter

Quizlet: study site that allows students to create customized learning tools, games, and digital flashcards