Presentation Tips & Tools: Tools

Online version of Powerpoint; the free service should be more than enough power for all your slide needs.

zooming presentation editor

Google Slides is a slideshow creation tool. Use Google Slides for collaborating with colleagues and for commenting on slideshows. The publishing tool in Google Slides makes it very easy to embed your slideshows into a blog or website.

Make a cool photo show with music! Great for personal stuff as well as class presentations. You will need an account. You may have a free acct with limited features. Or, see Mrs. Nocita for access to the library account.

Make your own Flipbooks!

interactive poster maker
Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students | Text, Images, Music and Video. Sort of a virtual poster, but prettier. You will need an account. See Mrs. Nocita

Visual short stories.

Another new presentation option, great for portfolios and slide-style presentations.

Create, share and show your
presentations online

Zentation combines video and slides to create online presentations that best simulate the live experience. Easily create high-end webinars, webcasts, elearning, training and virtual events.

Animated Movies Made Easy!
Xtranormal instantly turns your words into a 3D animated movie.

online presentation tool

online screen recorder

Record and share your presentations.

instant screenshots and screencasts

free screen recording software

Empressr is a fully functional, high quality, online slide show presentation creation and sharing service. Empressr has a couple of features differentiating it from its competitors. The first feature of note is the option of embedding video from multiple sources into your slide show. The second feature of note is Empressr's editor which allows users to draw, create, or edit images inside their slides. Empressr slideshows can be embedded anywhere.

We give you a blank wall.
You put anything you want on it, anywhere.
Simple, yet powerful.

Don't stick with the canned color options when you use something like Powerpoint. This tool will help you select colors that play well together.

Excerpts and extras from a book about thoughtful slide-based presentations.

Shared color palettes from users; great source for ideas and inspirations.

Default graphs are usually bad news from a visual perspective, and bad visuals lead to less audience comprehension. This post takes you through one graph step-by-step and provides some helpful design tips along the way.

Great breakdown of the CRAP idea presented in Steal This Presentation, here applied to visual interfaces rather than just slideshows.

Online Diagram Software and Flowchart Software - useful for creating original, pared down to the essentials graphs and diagrams.

Sometimes less (data) is more (clear), and this somewhat silly example helps explain why.

We have Slideology in the library, but if you are short on time, some basic tenets of presentation are summarized here. See pp 65-77 for useful tips on data in your presentation.

This means the video file is saved to your computer!

If your teacher is logged in on the computer you are using for the presentation, you will be able to access YouTube videos. If you are logged in as a student, you will not be able to play the content.

Link to websites

What it looks like as you move from slide to slide