Educational presentation tools

Once the content of your slides is ready, you will need to use a web tool of your choice to create your presentation. We have curated for you some of the best tools you may want to try out in this regard. See the list below. After selecting your presentation software and picking out the template you like, you start populating your slides. Related: Do's and Don'ts of Presenting. With the smartphone and tablet and VR phenomenon exploding from generation to generation, kids have more distractions than ever before.

If students are bored with PowerPoint, Google Slides, and other generic presentation tools, WOW them with video, audio, and imagery that mirrors the content they spend hours watching on YouTube and Netflix. As teachers learn to master the art of engagement, kids will inevitably learn by example and begin creating powerhouse presentations of their own. Disclosure: This preceding post was sponsored.

We were compensated by the sponsoring company, and consider this to be an advertisement. I almost included this in the same neighborhood as PowerPoint, but Sway serves a different purpose. Sway is a Microsoft product. PowerPoint is very presenter-driven, much like a classroom that is teacher directed.

PowerPoint has many layout options; Sway has three. Similarly, PowerPoint has thousands of templates; Sway is limited. The win for Sway here is the option that the viewer can run the show much more easily than in PowerPoint.

An article on the alternatives to PowerPoint cannot be written without Prezi. This is perhaps one of my favorites when compared to PowerPoint.

Prezi can work like a controlled bubble map where you start with the helicopter view or topic in the middle and then move around to all the other topics that relate to where you started.

However, visually, this is a viable alternative to the linear PowerPoint. If you have a more creative audience, this may be a good route to go as opposed to an audience that is more straight laced. Visme offers HD backgrounds, millions of free images, graph tools, hundreds of fonts, data visualizations reports, and ready-to-use templates. The biggest drawback to Visme is that there are so many options it is easy to get lost and this makes it harder to master all their features.

Two instructional technologists I talked to about this article highly recommended Visme, but both had an issue with all the options. In a world where time is short for marketers, educators, and more, sometimes less is more. Edmodo is an educational tool that connects teachers and students, and is assimilated into a social network.

In this one, teachers can create online collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure student performance, and communicate with parents, among other functions. Edmodo has more than 34 million users who connect to create a learning process that is more enriching, personalized, and aligned with the opportunities brought by technology and the digital environment.

Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, Socrative is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can see the results of the activities and, depending on these, modify the subsequent lessons in order to make them more personalized.

Projeqt is a tool that allows you to create multimedia presentations, with dynamic slides in which you can embed interactive maps, links, online quizzes, Twitter timelines, and videos, among other options. During a class session, teachers can share with students academic presentations which are visually adapted to different devices. Thinglink allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs. These can be shared on other websites or on social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook.

Thinglink offers the possibility for teachers to create learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive content that can expand their knowledge. TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collaboration of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas.

This website allows democratizing access to information, both for teachers and students. Here, people can have an active participation in the learning process of others. To achieve its objective, this platform has an open source interface that allows creating and distributing educational material through the internet, which can be modified and contain videos, audios, and interactive exercises.