TCC 3-1 More Than Power Point (My Symbaloo has more...)

If variety is the spice of life our presentations need some spicing up! Let’s break out of the PPT mode...here are some suggestions:PhotoStory 3 and Movie Maker are freebies on every machine in the district. ETV has shown us how to use them during summer PD. Both can make movies out of photos or video. And...did you know you can save PPT slides as .jpg photos and insert them also? Other sites which are photo friendly are: Google’s Picasa (download) which isn’t just for pictures anymore but will make a video-type presentation for you. Animoto (membership) makes a movie for you automatically using templates and music from their site,.
 Voki and Blabberize let someone talk for you. Voki allows you to type or record or upload a voice file that the avatar speaks. Blabberize lets you animate still figures so that they talk. (memberships)
Sketchup allows students to model a scene in 3-D It has a free version, and we have licenses for the Pro software for the next 3 years’ use.
VoiceThread uploads either video or photos and allows you to add either text or audio/video comments to each “slide.”
Or would publishing an online book be more matched to the assignment. Issuu (pronounced “issue”) makes a page turning book and gives a url to the book which can also be viewed in presentation or paper mode. While 2epub.com will take a .doc or .pdf or .pub file and make it into .epub which can be viewed with ipads, Nooks, and many other e-readers.
Prezi is more like a mind map than a PPT, but follows a path to each “page” of your presentation.
Webpages or wikis give another way to share information. Weebly, jottit, and Google’s Sites host easy to make pages.
Some other helpful tools are Audacity (a down load that edits audio), Jing ( a download that records your computer screen as a movie), and Vocaroo (a non-member site that records audio which you can embed or email)
These should help add some spice! Enjoy!

*My Symbaloo