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5 best online presentation tools for the classroom
In this article, we feature 5 of the best free tools teachers can use to create awesome slideshows and presentations. These cool tools will be of great help to the teacher with minimal demands.
Once upon a time, presentations meant Powerpoint. And using Powerpoint meant excellent presentation skills, creativity, and maybe some designing skills. In this article, we feature 5 of the best free tools teachers can use to create awesome slideshows and presentations. These cool tools will be of great help to the teacher with minimal demands.
Canva
Educators can use Canva's web based tool to design stunning presentations that will engage their students. Canva’s free presentation software contains hundreds of beautifully designed layouts to create presentations on any topic. Making a interesting presentation is as simple as choosing the perfect images (over 1 million stock images are available), fonts and colors. Check out Canva's teaching materials for more inspiration.
Google Slides
Using Google Slides, educators can create, edit and present wherever and whenever they need. This free tool from Google contains a variety of presentation themes, hundreds of fonts, embedded video, animations, and more. It gives the teacher the ability to access, create, and edit presentations on the go — from a phone, tablet, or computer — even when there’s no connection.
emaze
emaze is an online content creation technology which enables educators to create beautiful content design within minutes. While initially just presentations, emaze is now a creation tool for beautifully designed social hub websites, blogs, ecards and photo albums. All in minutes and for free.
Office Sway
Microsoft's Office Sway is an Office 365 app that helps educators and students express ideas using an interactive, web-based canvas. Sway's design engine helps users quickly and easily produce professional, interactive, and visually appealing designs from images, text, documents, videos, maps, and more. Sway is not just a web-based clone of PowerPoint (for that you have Powerpoint online), Sway is designed to be viewed in a scrolling linear fashion, just like a single page website. Powerpoint and Sway are designed to be complementary, you just have to know when to use Sway and when to turn to Powerpoint.
Slidebean
Slidebean works on a very different concept of "separating the content from the design". The teacher needs to think of the information she wants to put on her slides, as if writing a draft. Slidebean will then generate an awesome design automatically. This way you can focus on what matters most: your ideas.
Honorable mentions – Powerpoint online, Prezi, SlideDog, Zoho Show
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