14 Online Presentation Tools. There may be times when you need to present ideas to clients or co-workers and could benefit from one of the many resources for creating online presentations.
In this post we’ll introduce 14 different presentation tools to get the job done. Some are free to use while others will come with a cost. Online Presentation Tools: 280 Slides 280 Slides is a free tool with a clean user interface. SlideRocket SlideRocket allows you to create presentations or upload your existing PowerPoint files. PreZentit PreZentit is a free tool that is currently in beta. AuthorSTREAM authorSTREAM allows you to upload PowerPoint presentations and share them with others online. Empressr With Empressr you can upload your images, video, and audio to create presentations online.
Google Docs With Google Docs you can upload your own images and video, add text, and create presentations quickly. Harvard Education Letter. Cafescribe. MindTap - Cengage Learning. Welcome to LearnCast®. Middle School Students Find Their Voice with Digital Cameras. Some years ago I taught a life skills class to a group of eighth grade boys.
The curriculum I offered wasn't working. They were disengaged -- they wouldn't read, write, or talk about what I wanted them to talk about -- and they were mounting a rebellion. "What is going on with you? " I confronted them; I was losing my patience. Popplet. Online learning official: Lecture capture helps students 'review, review, review' UMass Lowell leader eases faculty concerns over video lectures as program proves popular among students By Dennis Carter, Assistant EditorRead more by Denny Carter October 20th, 2010 Moloney said more UMass Lowell classrooms will have lecture capture systems soon.
Jacqueline Moloney wants college students to do less transcribing and more listening. Moloney, executive vice chancellor and head of online learning at the University of Massachusetts Lowell campus, has overseen an effort to make lecture capture technology a standard feature in the university’s classrooms, along with a host of other technologies that can be tailored to fit instructors’ preferences. Along with a suite of other technologies—digital document cameras and interactive LCD touch screens among them—about one-third of UMass Lowell’s classrooms have been equipped with lecture capture programs that, Moloney said, let students “review, review, review” by rewinding the video lectures and hashing over complex concepts.
"Skype in the Classroom" Launches to Connect Teachers & Students Worldwide. As its major outage in December demonstrated, Skype bridges the personal and the professional, and many of us have come to rely on its VOIP calls to family, co-workers and colleagues.
Skype has also been embraced by many educators who are using it in the classroom in some innovative ways. Teachers use Skype to open their students to a world beyond the classroom walls. They use it to bring experts, authors, and guest instructors into the classroom, those who would never otherwise be able to visit the school. Students can take virtual field trips, if you will, via Skype as they're connected to places through video chat. Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010.
The Ideal Technology Device for Students and Teachers - Leading From the Classroom. In 2001, Mark Prensky coined the terms "Digital Natives" and "Digital Immigrants" to describe the differences between adults and students in using technology.
Educators are "Digital Immigrants" who have to adapt and learn how to integrate technology into their lives. Students are "Digital Natives" born into a culture and lifestyle where technology immersion is the norm. Although I know a lot of educators who argue that immigrants can use technology in the same ways as the natives and that being a native does not necessary guarantee proficiency, I have found the Digital Native and Immigrant comparison to be helpful in understanding the essential differences in childhood experiences that separate educators from the students. From my perspective, growing up with my Commodore 64 and learning in a school during the pre-Internet Age is a very different experience from today's students who have a variety of technology tools that connect them to the world through Twitter and Facebook. gsd Says:
Presentation Software – The Top Ten (10) 1.
PowerPoint Like it or loathe it, PowerPoint is here to stay. At 20 years old it is still the leading presentation software. At one point it was estimated that there are 30 million PowerPoint presentations given every day. But is it really time to Ditch PowerPoint? 2. For stunning presentations that you can also put on-line Flash is by far the best presentation technology on the market. 3. Open Office Impress is the free open source presentation technology. 4. If you want to make your presentations fly then you will need a way of easily editing images – for example to adjust the colours, or make images transparent. 6.
NXPowerLite can compress files by as much as 75%, making them easier to use, store and share. 7. If you want to make professional looking graphs and charts in PowerPoint then you will find the PowerPlugs Charts pretty hard to beat.