Presentation Tools for your Classroom
These tools can be used in a wide variety of ways:
- To display photographs and video clips of students working, to share with parents, what's been happening in your classroom. Embed on your class blog/wiki!
- To showcase outstanding work samples in a professional looking video.
- As a tool for students to use to create professional looking presentation videos on a researched topic.
Smore
Love this website! Have recently taken to creating my weekly technology flyers using this site. So easy to share via twitter, facebook or email. It allows you to add text, images, links, embed videos and audio. Great for creating multi-modal texts in your classroom too! It even works on an iPad! Check out the Information reports by one of my Stage 3 students on Orangutans created using smore below. More can be viewed here.
This site allows you to create interactive images. Upload your image and then add a tag. You can change the icon to suit the type of media you are liking to. You can add links to audio, video, images and URLs. You can also simply add text to the tag to give more information. Hover over the image to locate the tags. This website is also now an available as an app. You can find lesson ideas and more student work samples on my iPad lesson page.
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This simplest online video creator out there in my opinion. Simply upload your photos, select a music track and press finish. The rest is done for you. You can either download the video in mp4 format or request an embed code to place on your blog/wiki. Be sure that you click on the education link at the bottom to upgrade your membership for free and gain 50 student accounts. Check out my animoto tutorial here.
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I created this animoto to showcase all of the entries by our students in the CLI Digital Art Awards.
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This is a fabulous presentation tool which allows you to create a scrolling presentation of photos and even allows you to create cutouts and collage it altogether. Furthermore, you can add hot spots which link off to websites too! It is very easy to embed and has multiple options to suit your blog or wiki. You can embed as a thumbnail, in a 400x400 square (as seen at right) or at full screen width, which is definitely my favourite.
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Another cool tool for creating videos using photos. Very similar to animoto in that you upload your photos, select a music track and publish. You can easily embed these into your school blog/wiki.
The example to the right is one made recently showing my students using the Money Vision AR app as part of our maths lesson. |
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Another fabulous presentation tool with lots of extra features that animoto and photopeach don't have. You can select animations and effects to add to your presentations as well as select transitions for between each image. There are free animations and effects or you can upgrade your account to access hundreds of stickers, animations and effects. The example to the right displays student work samples from the technology lab and was embedded on their class wiki.
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Slideboom allows you to share your PowerPoint presentations on the web. Upload your presentation and then embed it into your blog or wiki, quickly and simply. I prefer to use Slideboom over Slideshare as Slideboom maintains all the animations and transition effects in your PowerPoint presentations whereas Slideshare does not.
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This website allows you to embed .pdf files into your blog or wiki. When embedding a pdf file I choose this site over embedit.in because it offers more options in terms of the viewing of the file. Issuu lets you embed your pdf in book format complete with flipping pages and you can also add audio. You can select cute themes to have as a background to your book and customize your viewing audience. Very effective for presentating a collection of student work samples, especially when it allows you to view it in full screen mode.
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Got some music/story/news item you want to put on your wikipage to share with parents? Simply upload it to audioboo and it will convert it into an embeddable online player for your site. There is also an app for your iphone so you can record and save directly to your online account from your ipad/ipod/iphone. If you are a NSW DEC teacher you will need to take the device home for the files to upload to the Audioboo server as it is blocked through the proxy.
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Very similar to AudioBoo in that it allows you to record your voice and share your audio with others. This website is easier to use than Audioboo as it allows you to record directly onto the website with a microphone and immediately gives you a URL to share your mp3 with the world. We used this technique to quickly embed audio into our smore flyers (sample at top of page). Alternatively you can grab the embed code and embed the audio player on your blog,wiki or website. There is also a nifty little app, however NSW DEC teacher be aware that the app does not work through the proxy.
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