Free, Fun, Alternatives to PowerPoint

What Could Possibly Be Better?  Prezi   A great way to jazz up your presentations!

Prezi Features

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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 getinstructional videos

“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”“Prezify Your PowerPoint”

Empressr   View Empressr tutorial 

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

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PowerPoint Loaded!

Empressr Dashboard

What Could Possibly Be Better?  Zohoshow 

ZohoShow Front Page

ZohoShow Features

Why Try ZohoShow?

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Photo Peach   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! Technology for Free! 

Other Alternatives to PowerPoint PhotoStory Movie Maker Tikatok – imagine a story, create a book Animoto – create videos Voicethread – photos with commentary Photopeach – slideshows Glogster – interactive posters Letterpop- brochures, invitations Digital Storytelling Pixton – create your own comics GoAnimate – cartoons and animations 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.