Presentations



Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that gives a whole new meaning to the word "power point". The zoomable canvas makes it fun for students to explore ideas and the connections between them. Turn your students loose with this and watch them captivate their audience the next time they tell a "story".

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Tips:
 * Free educator's accounts
 * Store presentations in the cloud or download to your computer
 * Not all students are provided email accounts by their school. If you are a teacher, you can register bulk email accounts for your students with quite a few providers out there. One worth checking into is Gaggle.

Slideshare offers one of the most simple ways to share presentations, documents, and videos. Simply create an account, upload your project, and then share it with the world.

__**Example:**__The following link is a shared presentation in Google Docs- 52 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom. By uploading it to slideshare, it can now be viewed in classroom blogs/websites or on mobile devices. On behalf of all the Kansas District teachers, Thank you, Tom Barrett, for sharing! media type="custom" key="10737662" __**Tips:**__


 * Upload presentations, documents, PDFs (100 MB) & professional videos (100 MB)
 * Do not upload materials you do not have copyright for

Imagine grabbing a piece of poster board for a class project and being able to embed videos, songs, and interactive graphics. Now couple that with the ability display it to an audience of not only your peers, but to everyone (or no one if you choose)! That is Glogster. This Web 2.0 tool just drips with creative possibilities and encourages teachers to have conversations about the importance of design and layout!

CHECK OUT THESE LINKS TO SEE HOW SOME STUDENTS HAVE BEEN USING IT!
 * Skeletal-Muscular System
 * The Lightning Thief Booksell
 * The Battle of Bunker HIll
 * By His Wounds

If you pay for any online tool during the year, this is one to go ahead and pay for! The administrative features are well done, navigation is intuitive. TIP:
 * When assessing glogs, don't forget to think about elements of design, layout and color choice. Those are all really good visual literacy skills students should be working. Students are bombarded by visual media, help them to effectively make a point using the their own visuals
 * When adding pictures to a glog, students can upload their own pictures. Kids can literally create EVERY aspect of their glogs.

Looking for an alternative way to give your students feedback on a project or assignment they have created. How about collaborating on a project with another class! Using VoiceThread is a multi-media tool that allows you to do just that! VoiceThreads hold images, documents, or video which can be viewed by friends, teachers, parents, and the world if you wish. Viewers can leave comments in five different ways: using a mic, a telephone, text, audio file, or video (using a webcam).

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__**Tips:**__
 * A collaborative website that has an abundance of VoiceThread Project Ideas for all grade levels. Have fun playing and discovering!



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TIPS:
 * Unfortunately, only premium account members can have access to class management, but the whole class can surely make them together, or groups of students can use one user account to create pop up books to be used in blogs, wikis, or other sites that allow embed code. Premium membership also allows you to upload sounds (music, narration, etc).
 * The clip art gallery is pretty clunky to use. To make the stories some alive, use as many high resolution images as possible.
 * Adding images from the Web: Instead of downloading images and the re-uploading them to ZooBurst, Find the web address of the image and paste it into the "File Name" box of the "upload a picture" dialogue box. Saves you a ton of time!
 * Keep your Story text to about two full lines. If you go over, you'll have to scroll to finish reading it. Encourage kids to add dialogue to the pop-up characters in the story.