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.

Google Drawing

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

Glogster

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

Thinglink

Tag a single image with music, video, links, etc.

Edcanvas

Single canvas, multimedia presentation tool. Has a fully integrated search feature in the tool. No need to go to another tab to find what you want. YouTube, Google Drive, Flickr, DropBox, Google Search, etc.

Elections 2012 Flipped

sliderocket

Collaborative, sharable, media-rich presentations. Views like a movie and has mobile capability.

PowToon

Create animated, fun, and visually appealing presentations with this easy to use drag and drop tool. Option to export as movie to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Blogpost - "How to Create Cool Animated Presentations in 5 Easy Steps"

Prezi

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

Tildee

Simple "How To" pages

Voice Thread

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

Museum Box

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.