Faculty Development: Presentation Resources

Free. EASILY create an events page. Login with Twitter account (can create one from the site).

"create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these graphics on Canva is a drag-and-drop process. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

"create a page for anything in 5 minutes."-(site)

create a simple single page poster with text, images, and videos. Once you sign up (it's free) you simply add the elements and then publish the final product.

Upload your own pictures or simply search for photos on the same site. Can use their templates for ideas.

Don't let the elementary feel about the website fool you

"turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service is that you can upload PDFs and add pictures, links, and videos that are displayed when students read your PDF through the Active Textbook viewer. While reading your PDF through Active Textbook students can highlight, draw, and add comments to the document. " Active Textbook is free to use for up to 500 pages of material. -- from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Allows you to add voice to PowerPoint, documents, images, spreadsheets, or videos. (MyBrainshark supports nearly 100 video formats.) Polls may be inserted. Users may add narration with their phones or computer microphones or by uploading a pre-recorded MP3. Speaker notes may be displayed as a support. And visual dashboards allow creators to track viewing results.

Dipity is a free digital timeline website that allows users to organize web content by date and time. They can also create, share, enbed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

Web-based presentation creation tool. Html5-based, so will work on iOS devices. "Let your ideas flow through your finger. Drag it, drop it, style it, and even animate it."--(site)

Easy, engaging, and free!
Rich multimedia content
Share with students
All in one browser tab

Create awesome presentations by adding photos, music, video, and audio. You can also instantly share your work publicly or privately. Cool transitions.

collaboratively create multimedia documents
Perfect for print or digital (for viewing on a computer, tablet, or smartphone)
Receive feedback from coworkers or clients directly on the document. Collaborate with anyone on any browser, anywhere. With live chat, high-quality templates, drag and drop functionality.

See YouTube video for a 60 second overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhCSEVVd-o

A four dimensional storytelling tool. Using Meograph you can build map and timeline-based stories. A nice plus is that you don't have to include locations in your story. So if locations aren't important to your narrated story you can simply build a narrated timeline. Better than Google Earth since you don't have to download any software.

"Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. Our first product combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when."--(site)

"Metta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Metta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

Now you can add polls and quizzes into a video presentation!

Recorded slide content accompanied with photos, PowerPoint slides, text documents or even videos. Movenote synchronizes the video and the slide content for you when recording the presentation.

"The combination of images, music, and text helps students learn about presentation, expression, writing, communication skills, art appreciation, and media literacy. The quality of the finished work is great and students will remember it forever.

Start creating fun slideshows with captions, soundtracks, quizzes, and easy editing controls!"--(site)

Free for teachers and students. Excellent fun animated choices and transitions. Just drag and drop.
http://www.powtoon.com/blog/presentation-tips/how-to-create-an-animated-presentation-in-5-easy-steps/?utm_source=Regmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BetaEmail

"help your audience follow along with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by allowing the members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads, and Android tablets and watch them change when you advance your slides. This ensures that everyone is on the same slide at the same time. Presentation.io includes a backchannel that allows your audience to comment on and ask questions about your slides.

Upload a PPT or PDF to your free Presentation.io account. Presentation.io then gives you a URL to distribute to your audience. When the members of your audience open that URL they will be able to see and follow along with your presentation. When you're done with your presentation just click "stop presenting" and the synchronization stops."--(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/presentationio-sync-your-presentations.html#.UTYYgVe86f1)

Free version allows you to share your presentations for 48 hours.

"a simple, easy to use, low cost application that allows you to record your presentation and then, by splitting the screen, show you and your slides at the same time, in the same place, enabling you to share the results online with whomever you want. That's Present.Me – and that’s exactly what it does!

Simply upload your slides, images, graphs, photos – whatever your content, in either powerpoint or pdf format. Once the content has been converted, which takes no time, and you’re ready to go, you head to the record queue, click ‘record’ and off you go! Present into your webcam clicking the slides as you would if you were presenting to an audience. Don’t worry about having to remember everything in one go or making a mistake. There’s a really simple self editing function.

Once you’re finished click ‘publish’! And presentme does the rest, editing everything together in real time. Once you’re happy with your performance, you can share it, either publicly or privately, embed it or just keep it for yourself as a reminder of what you’re supposed to say." --(site)

"The presentation recorder integrates a variety of visual aids and synchronizes presenter's video, PowerPoint slides, drawing board, and whiteboard. With the drawing board, presenters can draw lines, curves, graphs, and shapes on the screen to emphasize or clarify their ideas, so the demonstration can be clearer. The whiteboard allows the presenter to type text using the keyboard making it an ideal tool to add more details, or explain equations using words, numbers, and symbols. An uploaded video presentation employs scrollable slide thumbnail allowing the audience to move to the respective video content and control both the time and progress of video. A video presentation also allows interactivity via Facebook comments and self-assessment quizzes, allowing the audience to be heard and involved."-(site)

Registration with PresentationTube, downloading the recorder, and uploading your video presentations are free for academic purposes only, with no ads, no banners, and no limitations in recording time, storage space, or delivery bandwidth. Using PresentationTube for commercial or other purposes by individuals, universities, institutions, associations, or governments is considered as commercial use and requires payment.

Help: http://presentationtube.net/index_support.php

The free light version is fully working but limited to 15 mins of recording, and has basic video recording options. A PresentationTube logo is added at the right-bottom of the video.

ProVersion: $50, with life-time software license, 1 year free upgrade, unlimited video recording time length, and full video and recording control

Similar to Prezi where everything is on one giant canvas and you tell it where to go next.

Create digital brochures, booklets, flyers, or guides and then embed them. Educators can get 10 free publications per year without watermarks or advertising.

Slidely allows users to create visually appealing slideshows using pictures. It supports both online pictures or the ones you have on your computer . It provides users with the ability to add music to slideshows.

Good for showcasing art shows, etc.

"Upload and share your PowerPoint, Keynote and OpenOffice presentations. Record audio and video narration and attach external videos without leaving our site.

Manage your presentations, profile and groups in the Management Console." --(site)

"Taggstar is a free widget for your web site that turns images into an even more exciting, engaging and social medium.

There's no software to download and you don't have to be Einstein to get it to work. Just sign up, then copy and paste some JavaScript into the html of your web site. It's kind of like adding a hit tracking widget, or a Google Analytics tracking tag into your site.

Simple.

Once installed, tagging is easy. Just point and click to place hotspots on pictures, adding rich content such as video, music and shopping links. It's sort of a digital version of placing pins on a board. Your site's images are the board and Taggstar provides the pins.

But wait, there's more than just tagging.

People like to share the images they discover, which is why when you install Taggstar, every image on your site gets its very own "share" tool bar. This means visitors to your site can share your wonderful images with the rest of the world."--(site)

Make images come alive with music, audio, videos and any web content. Can include audioboo audio recordings as well. Can even embed finished product.

could be used by art students to identify and tag important elements of a painting, drawing, etc. It could also be used in history courses to have students identify important places on map, etc.

"Remix is an optional service that allows you let other people use the images that you upload. You retain ownership of the original image and your original image isn't changed, but others can use your uploaded image to create their own interactive images." (Richard Byrne, http://www.freetech4teachers.com/) Great for a teacher to upload an image and then students remix it.

http://edudemic.com/2013/01/10-innovative-ways-to-use-thinglink-in-the-classroom/

Video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kDWdJsr00&feature=player_embedded

"UtellStory is a multimedia storytelling and sharing community where you can easily create and share stories with audio, image, video and words. You don’t have to use all of these media together in one story but you can if its necessary. A story can be as simple as one photo or can be a combination of multiple images, video, audio recording and background music. The idea is to empower you to tell your stories, engage your audience and make an impact."--(site)

In the free version of UTellStory you have thirty seconds per slide and up to two minutes of total audio.

Free. Can create slideshows, banner graphics, and interactive infographics.
Can share online, embed, or download to use offline.

For video tutorials: http://wideo.co/html/learn

"CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)"--(site)

"Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display. Explain Everything records on-screen drawing, annotation, object movement and captures audio via the iPad microphone. Import Photos, PDF, PPT, and Keynote from Dropbox, Evernote, Email, iPad photo roll and iPad2 camera. Export MP4 movie files, PNG image files, and share the .XPL project file with others for collaboration."-(site)

"Ripcorder Screen lets you create movies from your mac’s on-screen activities. Ripcorder Screen will capture whatever is played on your mac’s display into a QuickTime movie. You can use Ripcorder Screen to, for instance, create demo movies of mac’s screen activities."-(site)

Free Chrome extension-- don't need Admin right to use on your computer.

Screencast within Chrome only (either a tab or your desktop). Can choose to show video camera or not. Has option to upload to YouTube.

Desktop recording works, but first you need to enable ‘UserMedia’ option in the chrome://flags/ experimental console.

To do that, enter chrome://flags/ in the URL bar, click ‘Enable’ under ‘Enable screen capture support in getUserMedia().’, and relaunch Chrome. Once that is done, you should be able to screencasts in Desktop mode.

"One-click screen recording on Windows or Mac with no install for FREE!"--(site)

Records screen actions within the chosen dotted border. After the count-down, you can record and then publish to the Screencast-o-matic site, YouTube, or to a video file. Free version is limited to a 15-minute presentation.

Registration is not essential unless you choose to save to the Screencast-o-matic site. If you are registered you can add notes and captions.

Good for up to 10 people. Can enable the text-chat feature and add Google Docs, screensharing, and SketchUp (whiteboard).

Watch video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu4pZirx5S0&feature=youtu.be

Create an online meeting channel . "Allows you to host webinars that can be accessed from any laptop, desktop, or tablet (including iPad) that has a web browser.

Free plan allows you to have three people join each of your meetings and you get 500 free meeting minutes.

It does not require you to install any special software nor does it use Flash or Java. When you create your account on Meet.fm you can pick a name and URL for your room. That name and URL can be yours for as long as you like and as many times as you like within the limitations of your account's time limitations. In your Meet.fm meetings you can share your desktop, your webcam, and transfer files to attendees."-- (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/meetfm-host-and-join-webinars-on-any.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29#.USuSZ1ee4zI)

"Simkl helps you record Skype calls and conversations
automatically so you don’t have to worry about
forgetting or losing your chat history."-(site)

Offers 3 basic accounts (FREE, Pro, and toll free). Can also screenshare! The 'presenter' must use Chrome; attendees cna use any browser, but it works best in Chrome.

https://www.uberconference.com/screensharing