A New Type of Presenter
Alternatives to PowerPoint
Take a look at the online tools below. You will be amazed at how easily you can take your same content and make it more visually appealing. These are not just for the teacher though. Turn your students lose and see what they come up with.
Upload your images, music and videos and include text, then Animoto generates a professional, always original, presentation. Animoto for Educators = Animoto Plus and accounts for 100 students.
High School - Life & Debt | Clowns | Global Stratification Visual Creation
Elementary School - Jane Goodall
Movie making made simple. Can you type? Then you can make a movie. An education version is available. Find button under "Sign in".
High School -Gender Inequality in Education | Gender Inequality - The Glass Ceiling
Online poster presentation tool. Embed images, text, and video and create over-stimulating presentations for everything. Glogster Edu = 200 student accounts.
Online interactive poster presentation tool. Embed images, text, audio and video in a simple, linear templates.
A single slide presentation that allows for the presenter to zoom in and out, move to and from images / text in a fluid manner. Prezi Edu = Edu Enjoy accounts for students and teachers.
High School - Heaven's Gate
A collaborative presentation that allows you to share documents, images or videos. The idea behind this tool is that everyone has a voice and should be allowed to express their thoughts. People can comment five different ways and all of the collaborative ideas are displayed on the same page. Voice Thread K-12 = Accounts for teacher and students.
Teacher Example - Origins of Sociology
Think time capsule. The site creators bill this tool as a place to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Users can add text, images, and video.
Students are desperate to use Facebook at school so here is there chance. Higher level processing in a simple program that students are used to.
What would they have tweeted if they were alive? Example of what your students could do with 140 characters.
Integration Ideas
- Have students try one or more these instead a traditional presentation method.
- If having students create "boards" why not try a digital multimedia presentation instead.