Presentation software and tools help users take their ideas and messages, and display them (typically onscreen) for others to watch, listen, and learn. Initially for a live audience (and initially almost always PowerPoint), presentations are now made with a host of different tools and saved or posted online for later viewing and interaction. (Of course, all presentations are only as good as their content; but it’s nice when they are visually appealing and convey the target message — and are easy to make!)
Prezi - Free/Paid; Web-based & Downloaded..... Prezi appears more like a dynamic presentation map, rather than a straightforward slide deck. Viewing effects and transitions flow between images or text in a zooming, push/pull, bigger/smaller, non-linear way (which when overdone can create audience discomfort). Prezi Basic is cloud-based and allows you to create and edit presentations in a simultaneous collaborative environment (across multiple users and different locations). Prezi's must be played from the Prezi viewer/Prezi site (Internet connection required).
Free Mac program: https://prezi.com/desktop/
Free Windows program: https://prezi.com/desktop/
Website: https://prezi.com/
Google Chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prezi/acoonfmhnndodekhecidldfdjgooefpg
Haiku Deck - Free; iOS (Web version in beta)..... Haiku Deck is a free app that makes simple, visually appealing presentations (based on millions of free images and helpful themes). It's simple premise is to move users away from slide after slide of bullet points, clip art and flash animations (none of that is available in Haiku Deck), but instead focus on images and few words to tell your story.
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haiku-deck/id536328724?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Website: http://www.haikudeck.com/
Slidebean - Free; Web-based..... Slidebean is a cloud-based platform that helps you create clean, visually appealing presentations in seconds, by having you focus on the content, and it taking care of the style. If you know your message and want to get it across cleanly, clearly, and professionally, Slidebean can help. Presentations must be viewed from their site (Internet connection required).
Website: https://slidebean.com/
Visme - EWC Presenter (Now known as Visme) - Free; Web-based..... This is a more powerful web-based presentation creation tool. It brings content to
Website: http://www.visme.co/
emaze - Free, Paid; Web-based emaze is an online presentation platform where users can create, manage and share their presentations through the cloud. emaze allows users to easily create spectacular visual presentations, simply and fast, and offers a variety of professional looking templates including formats with 3D animations and video backgrounds. The user adds the desired content. Excellent alternative to Power Point-like slideshows or zooming with Prezi.
Website: http://www.emaze.com/
PowToon and PowToon Slides - Free, Paid; Web-based PowToon helps users easily create animated presentations, animated videos, and pre-designed slide shows It's freemium plan is aimed at educators and non-professional designers, and offers a simple drag-and-drop interface to easily add images and objects slides. Standard templates are provided (or you can create you own). then you then choose the animation you want, and add text or a soundtrack. It then creates a very professional-looking presentation. It's a great tool for easily creating polished presentations or animations.
Website: http://www.powtoon.com/
Google Chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/powtoon-edu/ogodblbnhpbcmcjcoopbalconhnloagl
ThingLink - Free, Paid; Web-based.... While not quite a formal
Website: http://www.thinglink.com/
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinglink/id647304300?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Free iPhone app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinglink/id647304300?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Adobe Voice - Free, iPad.... Adobe Voice is an extremely simple media creation app that create beautiful animated videos in minutes, supporting students (and educators!) in creating and telling their own stories. Simply push the orange recording button and begin talking to create a narrated “slide show.” Easily add images to each slide by using the built-in Creative Commons and icon search engine of over 25,000 images, or by import pictures from your camera or library. Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack; the music and background images can be changed as well. Students can make up their own story or retell one page by page.
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Animoto – Free, Paid…, Web-based, iPad Animoto is a quick and easy way to make professional looking animated presentations. The program makes it easy to build animations from the Animoto libraries filled with styles, settings, props, and actors with lip-sync to put in to your animation. Teachers and students can create an animated lesson or project for class. The Lesson Gallery contains educational materials creating by educators from around the world.
Website: https://www.vyond.com/
MoveNote – Free; Web-based, iOS, Android..... MoveNote offers an extremely flexible and creative way to make video presentations from your documents, PDFs, graphs, photos, and other images. Users simply display their documents or files and use their device’s webcam and to record what they are doing on the screen. MoveNote creates videos from your computer, tablet or smartphone, and even provides viewer statistics to know who watched your presentation. This is a great tool for “how to” videos, demonstrations, and detailed class projects.
Website: http://movenote.com
Google Chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/movenote-for-google-drive/cncockmkadmineiddbpnakjabfdpldhd
Free Android Phone app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movenote
Free iPhone app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movenote/id535115011?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movenote/id535115011?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Website: https://www.buncee.com/
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buncee-creative-presentation/id1093956684?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Free iPhone app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buncee-creative-presentation/id1093956684?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Free iPad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slideidea/id691236637?mt=8&uo=4&at=10l6SU
Tackk - Free; Web-based..... Tackk is a free creation app that allows anyone to create content on the go, without needing special technical or design skills. Tack's simple format that allows users to instantly create and share content on the web, through text, images, and more. Creating beautiful presentations in Tackk is simple and intuitive. The stream feature is a unique way to have students submit assignments and provide both teacher and peer-to-peer feedback. If desired, Tackk provides a simple way to publish student work to a global audience.
Website: http://tackk.com/
Genial.ly - Free/Paid; Web-based..... Genial.ly is an easy-to-use web tool that can be used to create beautiful, interactive, visual content such as presentations, infographics, reports, posters, or guides. Teachers (and students) can use it to convey information and teach skills. With Genial.ly, programming or design skills are not required to create unique and appealing digital projects that can include images, graphics, social media, maps, surveys, videos, or audio. Users may one of the many available templates or create their own, with everything available on the cloud—users can easily access, modify, or share their creations from anywhere.
Website: https://www.genial.ly/
Google Chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/genially-en/pdlmkloiljfeaplibjdiadebmdancldl
PrimaryAccess - Free; Web-based PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students an easy way to access digital images and materials to create presentations, tell a story, or share a personal narrative. Using their browser, teachers and students access a large archive of primary source historical documents to create digital movies (historical narratives) that follow a story structure, with a beginning, middle, and end resulting in a movie that uses the documents to accompany the narration in a visually compelling manner. Teachers create an assignment then assign it to a class of students who each get student their own link to to the assignment to save and load their work individually. Teachers can then monitor student progress and review student work. Finished products may be saved and shared via the web. View the tool at http://www.viseyes.org/primaryaccess/
Website: http://www.primaryaccess.org/