Presentation Tools and Creating Newsletters
An easy-to-use animation program by Fablevision.
Animation-ish includes three levels that provide students and teachers from K-12 with a fun, rewarding experience that fosters the ability to animate across the curriculum with confidence.
- Wiggledoodle-ish provides a simple set of tools to draw, trace, and animate in just three frames. You can also import and trace any graphic. Creative and fun!
- Flipbook-ish includes an infinite number of frames so you can create longer animations that teach more substantial content.
- Advanced-ish allows for more complex animations using a foreground, background, and a mover tool that enables fluid movement of objects across the screen.
Change up a classroom presentation. The OTT-omatic Slide Randomizer is a simple add-on that allows one to easily and randomly reorder any slide deck. When used, the presentation will be quickly and efficiently randomized. Users can choose to randomize all slides or can keep the Title Slide if desired.
Play Posit is for the more advanced technology-using teacher. In addition to questions, teachers can insert text, images, and hyperlinks into videos imported from YouTube, TeacherTube, and other websites. Play Posit also includes a variety of analytical tools that allow teachers to monitor both student performance and the time students spent viewing the content. Though Play Posit might be a bit more sophisticated than other similar tools, its benefits can potentially pay off in the long run. Click the link to learn more about Play Posit. Basic program is free.
An interactive mind map. Upload a drawing (graphic) to Thinglink and then pin with videos, images, audio files, and links to example each part of the mind map.
ViewPure is pure video viewing. It gives educators the ability show students YouTube videos without advertising, free from links to suggested videos that might be inappropriate, and without user comments below the video. Users can copy the video’s “pure” URL for future reference. In addition, teachers can opt to install a “Purify” button on their browser’s toolbar. Instead of pasting a YouTube video’s URL into the ViewPure URL field, an educator can simply click on the “Purify” button while viewing the YouTube video to instantly clear it of questionable advertisements and materials.
WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!
Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator
- Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables.
- Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.
- Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colors, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!
Keep control of your word clouds
- Share your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)
- Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
- Download your own copy as an image file
- Get any word cloud as a present or gift on a T-shirt, card or more
Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator. Wordclouds.com works on your PC, Tablet or smartphone. Paste text, upload a document or open an URL to automatically generate a word- or tag cloud. Customize your cloud with shapes, themes, colors and fonts. You can also edit the word list, cloud size and gap size. Wordclouds.com can also generate clickable word clouds with links (image map). When you are satisfied with the result, save the image and share it online.
WordArt.com is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease. Professional quality results can be achieved in no time at all, even for users with no prior knowledge of graphic design
Animoto automatically produces video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.
Glogster (price : elementary $39.00 per 30 students - secondary $95.00 per 125 students)
A Graphical Blog (G-log….get it?) – a place where students can create interactive posters that demonstrate their passions, interests and knowledge of the curriculum. Glogs can serve as a great assessment tool and help move students to a higher order of thinking.
A tool loaded with enough easy-to-use features and functionality that anyone can create a variety of engaging content that gets shared.
Fotobabble allows you create and share Talking Photos in three simple steps: 1) Upload a photo, 2) Record your voice, and 3) Share with friends and family.
Try it and have some fun! Check mine out!
A free tool to create newsletters collaboratively. Integrating Lucidpress with Google Drive provides an additional way to store, open and share files with colleagues and collaborators. You can log in with your Google account. The Edu Premium subscription integrates with Google Classroom.
Create flipbook animations online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15XWHdoUiI
Comments or Questions? Email me at sbudreau@longmeadow.k12.ma.us