Communicating

Grades 3-6

• • Branding & Power of Images to help with your presentations

  • Bubbl for mind and concept mapping

  • Can I Use that Picture? for a chart to help you make smart decisions about using images from the Web

  • Colors in design

  • Design in Infographics: The tips apply to any presentation you create.

  • Design in Presentations: This blog post is filled with smart design ideas to help you make your presentations image rich with limited text.

  • Design Squad at PBS Kids

  • Designer roles at KidsThinkDesign

  • Easel.ly for digital infographics and posters

  • Eleven design tips

  • E-mail 101 for a full range of tutorials for using Gmail and being a good netizen!

  • Example of a well-designed, image-rich presentation

  • Fonts communicate a great deal :)

  • Glogster Education for digital poster boards (7 day free account)

  • Google Docs and Presentation (among other apps)

  • Importance of imagery in presentations

  • Infogr.am for chart and infographics creation

  • Lucidcharts for diagrams and mindmaps (Google App partner in Chrome)

  • Metaphors in your presentations (TEDed video)

  • Mindmeister for mind mapping

  • Multimedia Rubric to help you create your presentations

  • Padlet for digital Post-it notes

  • Power of Sound (video) to help you think about sound in your videos and slideshows

  • Powtoon for animated videos & presentations

  • Presentation Planning by Common Craft (Generate Ideas - Group Them/Storyboard - Assign to Slides - Find Images, Drawings, Headlines to Represent Ideas - Speaking Points to Notes Section of Each Slide)

  • Presentation resources to use good design

  • Presentation Tips Slideshow

  • Presentation Tool Matrix to engage your technology literacy to decide which tool(s) will be best for your presentation

  • Prezi for motion presentations

  • Slideshare for slideshows

  • Steve Job's Presentation Tips: 11 Tips (not sure if you need a villain) | Make A Presentation Like Steve Jobs (business oriented so adapt)

  • Student PowerPoint DesignQuest assignment and design tips

  • Venn Diagram Creation Tools: Gliffy Venn Diagrams | ReadWriteThink Venn Diagrams

  • Visual Communication: Information Design | Presentation Tips | PowerPoint Mistakes | 40 Ways to Mess Up a Presentation | Typology

  • VoiceThread for image and audio | VoiceThread Library for examples of projects