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VIDEO ESSAY

Presentation Tools:

Google Slides:

Can include voice-overs - see video and link above

Slide Carnival

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Source: Slide Carnival
  • "SlidesCarnival templates have all the elements you need to effectively communicate your message and impress your audience, and completely free!"
  • "You can download your presentation as a PowerPoint template or use it online as a Google Slides theme. You can also export your slides to other formats: PDF, JPG, PNG, etc."

SlidesGo

  • Free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates to boost your presentations

Canva Tools:

Canva

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Source: Canva
  • "Allows you to create beautiful designs and documents with easy drag-and-drop features and professional layouts."
  • Can download (JPG, PNG, and PDF) and/or share the file
  • Make sure you manually save your designs (Go to FILE and SAVE) - Ms. Barker has had issues in the past with designs not saving

Other:

Can include voice-overs

Prezi
  • "Presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter."
  • Try the free version linked to the left (you should not have to pay)
  • Suggestion: Do not make large transitions, or people might feel sea sick
  • Easily edit collaboratively and share
Can include voice-overs

PowToon
  • "Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use our library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own! Free. Easy. Awesome. Sign up today!"
  • Try the free version linked to the left (you should not have to pay)

HaikuDeck
  • "Haiku Deck makes it easy to follow the best practices recommended by experts: simplify your message, use images to amplify emotional impact, and keep formatting clean and consistent."
  • Try the free version linked to the left (you should not have to pay)
  • Downside to using this platform is that only one user has access. Cannot share and edit collaboratively 

Piktochart
  • "Easy-to-Use Presentation Maker. No complex design software. No heavy designer fees. Just a simple, intuitive tool that helps you tell your story with the visual impact it deserves."
  • Try the free version (you should not have to pay)
  • Very similar to canva where they will try to get you to pay to upgrade your options
Can easily create a video of your slides and record a voice-over

Adobe Spark
  • "Adobe Spark is a free online and mobile graphic design app. Easily create beautiful images, videos, and web pages that make you stand out on social."
  • Rather than create a presentation, you can create a webpage that looks and feels like a new and hip presentation

Genially
  • "The tool for creating interactive contents that make your audience fall in love. Communicate, educate, and attract bringing your contents to life."
  • Try the free version (you should not have to pay)
  • Animates your slides and provides you with a hyperlink to your presentation
  • "AMAZING VISUAL EXPERIENCES! Turn a flat presentation into an impressive visual story using our stunning visual effects."
  • Try the free version (you should not have to pay)
  • Video and animation plus live Twitter feeds

Explain Everything
  • Explain Everything Whiteboard is a presentation app that can integrate content from many sources, enabling teachers and students to use it to create lessons, tutorials, and more for class or personal use. A full-featured adaptation of Explain EDU, this formidable tool is like a superhero version of PowerPoint. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies, websites, and more from iTunes, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, WebDAV, and other sources to use in a presentation. Explain Everything can also be used as a whiteboard.

Color Palettes:

Paletton

ColorHexa

Coolors

ColourLovers

Creative Commons:
Creative Commons (CC) licenses allow creators the ability to communicate what rights they reserve, and what rights they waive for the benefit of recipients/creators (YOU). By using CC, you will get access to high quality work and know how to properly attribute/use said work as originally intended. Just a bit of a warning, some creators have given their works CC licenses that do not actually belong to them, or they are not the original copyright holder (Ms. Barker does not encounter too may of these cases, but they do happen so just be aware).

Public Domain:
The Public Domain is the perfect place to find media for your magazine articles and presentations. There are 100% no restrictions and no copyright claims on these works. Luckily, more and more creators are releasing their works to the public so you will find that all of the websites below have high quality photos (even hipster Instagram worthy photographs). One note, Royalty Free is not Copyright Free. Royalty Free means that you must pay for a license to use that work for a continued amount of time (like Getty Images and most stock photo websites) - again this is not in the Public Domain.

Screencasting & Voiceovers
There are so many different screencasting products (see links above). I use loom now (free) the most and if I need to edit the video, I import it into iMovie or another video editor.

Loom (Chrome Only)
Basic:
  • Unlimited recording time
  • Number of videos you can record - As many as you need
  • Number of videos you can access
    Unlimited until July 1 in response to COVID-19.Learn more

Screencast-O-Matic
Free:
  • Record Screen and/or Webcam
  • Record up to 15 Minutes
  • Record Window or Full Screen
  • Zoom in While Recording
  • Trim Recordings
  • Captions
  • Save to Desktop
  • Publish to Screencast-O-Matic and Youtube
  • Quick Share to Facebook, Twitter and Classroom

Screencastify (Chrome Only)
Basic:
  • Record up to 5 minutes per video, with all recording features included.
  • 📹Record screen and webcam
  • ✂️Trim your videos
  • 💾Autosave to Google Drive
  • 📤Export as MP4, GIF and MP3
  • 🖥Full HD resolution
  • 💧No watermark
  • ✏️Annotation tools
  • 🔺Publish to YouTube

Don't like hearing your voice? Here are two options for more "natural" text to speech. Please make sure you only use the FREE versions of both:

Interactive Presentation Tools

Pear Deck

"Pear Deck was founded by educators to help teachers engage every student, every day. With solutions built to integrate with Google Apps for Education and rooted in active learning and formative assessment best practices"
Free Version Allows:
  •  Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on
  • Google Slides Template Library
  • Create or import unlimited decks in Google Slides
  • Student-paced mode
  • Project anonymized student responses
  • Lock slides when presenting
  • Pear Deck Vocabulary & Flashcard Factory

Nearpod

"Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons."
Free Version allows you to create polls, interactive quizzes, open-ended questions, beautiful slideshows and more.
  • Class Size: Up to 30
  • Multi-Platform Availability
  • Basic Features
  • Download Hundreds of Free Lessons

A lot of major features you might want will only be available for a limited time with the free version, like YouTube videos, websites, etc.

Honorable mention is ClassFlow, which also can create interactive presentations with whiteboards, polls, lessons, activities, and/or quizzes (but the graphics are meh)

Interactive Quizzing Tools

Kahoot

"Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!"

Mentimeter

"Create fun and interactive presentations for your meeting, event, conference or classroom. Mentimeter is a free, easy-to-use software that you can use online."

Socrative

"Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding."

Gimkit

"Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win."