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.
Online poster presentation tool. Embed images, text, and video and create over-stimulating presentations for everything. Glogster Edu = 200 student account
Elementary School - All About Me
Part of Google Docs. Embed images, charts, graphs, text, shapes, lines, clip art, etc.
Dan's Sample Assignment: Muslim Empires Info Graphic Assignment / All Examples
Reuben's Sample Assignment: Culture Collage / All Examples
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.
Example - Tech Presentation (teacher)
Full Potential - Future Proof Your Education
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.
26 Interesting ways to use Voicethread in the Classroom
Elementary - Letter From The Mayflower
Example - Poetry Slam
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. Example.
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.
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