cool alternatives to power point

Jeffrey Laster

Lead Technology Teacher

Jan 9, 2013

Why would you NOT use PowerPoint?

What could possibly be better than PowerPoint?

How to use this new information

With all of the free resources available, where do

you start?

Don’t worry about that…just start somewhere!

Pick a website or two, and explore

Prezi

www.prezi.com

A great way to jazz up your presentation!

Kids will love the zoom feature!!!

Building a presentation on Prezi is a lot easier than

it looks

Watch the instructional videos, and use some of

your old PowerPoint presentations to get started

The best way I have found to use Prezi (in the

beginning)

You don’t have to make your own content to start,

just import one of your old PowerPoints!

Play around inside the Prezi software to make it

look cool

There is a video called “Prezify Your PowerPoint”

Empressr

www.empressr.com

View this cool Empressr tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rMT9mMkSE

Google

Yahoo

PhotoBucket

Flickr

Or use your built-in webcam to take a picture and

insert directly into your presentation

Zohoshow

http://www.zoho.com/show/

Have others on other computers collaborate on

your presentation from anywhere with Internet

access

Import content from PowerPoint and other

presentation platforms

A “Master Slide” makes it possible to choose a

format that works for every slide (I spend a lot of

time adjusting every PPT slide)

Photo Peach

www.photopeach.com

Probably the easiest to use of all of the sites I’ve

talked about today

Facebook

Picassa

Your computer

My Caribbean Spring Break Adventure

http://photopeach.com/album/18nj2nv

Notice the “Ken Burns Effect”, as the program

zooms in and zooms out on each photo as it shows

Make a “screen shot” of each of your PowerPoint

slides

“Ctrl” & “Prt Scr”, then paste into Paint, then save

the picture

Insert the pictures into PhotoPeach

Your PowerPoint will play with the press of a

button…and include background music!

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