Presentation Tools

There are many presentation tools, other than just PowerPoint, now available through libraries.  Here are some examples of multi-media presentation tools:

Animoto

Animoto creates video pieces from digital images, digital clips, and music.; an alternative to PowerPoint.

Audacity

Audacity is free recording software you can download and use to record students talking; makes great audio for projects with Movie Maker or PowerPoint.

Blabberize

A blabber is a talking picture;make your photos talk.

Dipity

Create your own timeline or select from online ones in Dipity.

Download PhotoStory

Photostory is a free download

Drop-io

Use drop.io to privately share files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more.

Emoticons

In this High-Tech Dictionary from Computer User magazine, this is a list of the keyboard symbols representing facial expressions, like smiley faces and a lot more.

FlickrStorm

Get high quality pictures, and narrow the search to common domain pictures, which are free to use

ImageOid

ImageOid is free image modifier available on Firefox, Safari, Chrome BUT NOT Internet Explorer as of 5/11.

Jing

Jing is a tool that lets you take screen shots including video. Copy or save them to use in other documents.

Photostory

A detailed guide to creating PhotoStory presentations.

Prezi

Create unique presentations with Prezi.

SlideRocket

Use this tool to create presentations with unique templates.

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

Enter your own text to generate "newspaper" like articles with images,etc.

Voicethread

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

(from the Parkway Northeast Middle school’s website)

The Colorado Virtual Library offers another list, with some overlapping tools, but some new ones as well.

Common Sense Media – There might be some overlap of tools at this site – however, the list is one of the best I have seen!

Adobe Spark’s  design features capture visuals and turns them into social graphics, web stories, flyers, and animated videos and more! It can be used on a desktop or IOS device.

Animoto:  Photos and video can be put together in a professional looking presentation with your own style and music. Customize your photos and videos with text and get ready to present.

Canva is a tool for creating presentations, resumes, graphic design pages, or editing photos online. There is a useful design school section with tutorials, teaching materials and design courses to help users learn more about graphic design.

Go Animate: In less than 5 minutes, you can easily create a professional looking animated video that’ll tell your story out loud. It’s ideal for the classroom because it serves up information in a unique and engaging way, that’ll keep students interested. And, the unlimited subscriptions mean you’ll have complete access to unlimited creation, hosting and download.

Haiku Deck is a cross-platform, (Laptop, Desktop,  iPad, iPhone, and Android) slideshow presentation tool that uses amazing layouts/fonts for engaging slides. There is access to over 40 million Creative Commons licensed images and you can also integrate it with Google Classroom!

Photo Peach is an online presentation tool for students for creating slideshows using photos. Students can add background music and text to enrich their slides and easily drag and drop their images in place.

Powtoon is an online presentation tool where you can create animated comic style presentations. It has graphic templates to use that you add your text along with your own voiceovers. Presentations can be exported to YouTube, Vimeo and, even PowerPoint.

Prezi  This one has been around for awhile, however, Prezi keeps reinventing itself. Take a look at the updated features – presentations feature a map-like, schematic overview that lets users pan among topics at will, zoom in and out on desired details, and pull back to reveal context. Videos and images can be added to your own design or you can use Prezi templates.

Thinglink is a tool that creates presentations based on interactive images that are embedded with rich media links. Users can embed audio and video links that pop out from pictures to visually tell a story. One great feature is the ability to create interactive 360° image tours that can be viewed on mobile virtual reality headsets.

Vectr is a free graphics editor that students can use to make imagery and then download for presentations, websites and other projects. The desktop and web app has builtin help tutorials for students too!

Voki  Fun and engaging presentations are created by adding the customizable Voki characters, audio, and images. You will need Adobe Flash 9 for the free version. Paid versions are available too.

(from https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/technology/digital-presentation-tools/)

What is similar about all the tools is that they offer multi-media, even interactive aspects with rich media links.  This offers rich media choices that can be used in teaching, informative, or sales presentations.