Free, Fun, Alternatives

to PowerPoint

What Could Possibly Be Better? Prezi www.prezi.com A great way to jazz up your presentations!

Prezi Features

How Much Will Prezi Cost Me?

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Your Prezi Dashboard

How to Get Started 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

“Prezify” Your PowerPoints! 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 Empressr tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rMT9mMkSE

Empressr

Instructions

Empressr Categories

Google Yahoo PhotoBucket Flickr Or use your built-in webcam to take a picture and insert directly into your

presentation

Import Images From…

Empressr is a Community!

Getting Started

Importing Your PowerPoint

Loading….

PowerPoint Loaded!

Empressr Dashboard

What Could Possibly Be Better? Zohoshow http://www.zoho.com/docs/online-presentation-tool.html

ZohoShow Front Page

ZohoShow Features

Why Try ZohoShow?

Questions? Go to the Forum!

Photo Peach www.photopeach.com Probably the easiest to use of all of the sites.

How to Make a Presentation

Facebook Picassa Your computer

Photos Uploaded

Choose Music & Name Show

Example… My Weekend in Seattle

Notice the “Ken Burns Effect”, as the program zooms in and zooms out on each photo as it shows

Spiral View

Story View

Convert PowerPoint Slides

Take a “screen shot” of each of your PowerPoint slides “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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Other Alternatives to PowerPoint

PhotoStoryMovie MakerTikatok – imagine a story, create a book http://www.tikatok.com/Animoto – create videos http://animoto.com/Voicethread – photos with commentary http://www.voicethread.comPhotopeach – slideshows http://photopeach.com/Glogster – interactive posters http://www.glogster.com/Letterpop- brochures, invitations http://www.letterpop.com/Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/Pixton – create your own comics http://pixton.com/uk/GoAnimate – cartoons and animations http://goanimate.com/

The list below are not what would be considered “slide presentation applications” but can be an alternative for students to demonstrate their understanding to the class.