Presentation tools

Teacher’s recommendations for academic uses of 5 fun free presentation tools

January 11, 2012

Course participants offer their ideas about ways to use these fun free tools in instructional situations and other academic applications. One of the most meaningful and informative types of communication that happens through education technology blogs like this one is when teachers share their experiences and ideas about how to use technology in the educational setting. Last summer, EmergingEdTech ran an online [...]

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Breathe New Life Into Your PowerPoint Slides With Dozens Of Exciting Free Tools & Resources

October 2, 2011

A wealth of free resources that can help you jazz up those tired old (or new) lesson slides and presentations. Thanks to a preponderance of boring content, PowerPoint has earned an undeserved bad name. It has become an all-too-easy target for bashing in today’s web media. At a recent education conference, someone used the phrase “Power Corrupts, but PowerPoint [...]

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8 Great Free Digital Presentation Tools For Teachers To Try This Summer

July 20, 2011

A mix of web apps that can help you make presentations that are fun, eye catching, and engaging (great for students too)! In this month’s free online workshop, we’re learning about the wonderful variety of free digital presentation tools available on the Internet today, and ways we might use them in our classroom. For the last assignment, [...]

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Free online workshop, Fun Free Digital Presentation Tools for the Classroom, to be offered in July

June 26, 2011

Course will be limited to the first 25 participants who enroll (so sign up today if you wish to participate). I had an overwhelming response to last week’s survey, asking if readers would want to take a free online 4 week course. Based on this feedback I am offering the workshop, “Fun Free Digital Presentation [...]

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Voki Is A Fun, Free Animated Avatar Application That’s Easy To Use In The Classroom

January 30, 2011

Voki makes it easy for educators to incorporate technology into lesson plans and assignments (and it’s advertisement free!). A couple weeks ago in the post “3 Quick Lesson Plan Ideas That Utilize Technology”, we explored some ways in which animation web sites could be used in the classroom. These types of tools were new to me and struck me, and readers [...]

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3 Quick Lesson Plan Ideas That Utilize Technology

January 16, 2011

Letting students use technology to create presentations, reports, journals, etc., can be an easy way to introduce technology in a lesson plan or project. Guest Post by Rebecca Garland If you’ve been teaching longer than a few years, you already know that it can be tricky to be a “perfect” teacher all the time. While we might [...]

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2 Great Online Presentation Tools for E-Learning

December 29, 2010

These two widely used presentation applications are accessible from any web browser. Guest post by Mark Davies. If you want to present a lecture without too many words, then your best bet is to prepare a presentation and let your slides talk for themselves. This makes presentations a convenient tool for teaching online courses. There are [...]

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Making the Rudolph Music Video (a Web 2.0 story)

December 26, 2010

Join me on a little diversion from Ed Tech, to explore some fun Web 2.0 tools that I use to create music videos. I occasionally get asked what it takes to create videos like the one I made to accompany this year’s “musical Christmas card”, my version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (or last year’s [...]

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Vuvox Rocks (what a great tool for creating student reports and teacher presentations)

August 25, 2010

This free, easy app for creating scrolling timeline-style content is a fun way for students or teachers to create presentations. With Vuvox you can easily create scrolling presentations that include pictures, text, video, and music. I’d come across it some time ago, and thought it would be a lot of fun for students or teachers to use [...]

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Skype in the classroom

June 23, 2010

We’re finding the popular, free voice and video conferencing solution to be very useful in the classroom. How about you? This year, there have a been a growing number of cases where we are being asked to set up Skype in our classrooms and provide webcams to facilitate video calls.  This free application makes it easy [...]

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