1. Microsoft Sway Your Way to Success
Bonnye Nance
@nancebl
Instructional Technology Specialist
Longview ISD
Lisa Darlin
Technologist
Sulphur Springs Middle School
Microsoft Sway Your Way to Success
Online presentation made with Microsoft Sway found at: Bit.ly/SwayToday

2. A Sway (equivalent of a document or presentation) is composed of multiple cards that are combined into a storyline.
Cards are containers that hold text, images and videos. You can combine cards into groups. A collection of cards make up the storyline.
What is Sway?

3. How is Sway different than Powerpoint?
Unlike a page-centric document such as PowerPoint presentations, storylines can shift across the screen in a continuous fashion.
How is Sway different than Powerpoint?

4. Sway is a one page website.
When published it can be shared with any device anywhere in the world.
What is Sway?

5. Why and When to Use Sway When creating media-rich content:
The proverb, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” hold true in many cases. This is especially true in Sway where much of the presentation is optimized to display images and create smooth transitions between cards.
When you want your reader to interact with content:
Include live content such as tweets and embedded IFRAMES from numerous sources that the user can interact with including Google maps, and numerous other audio, video and picture sharing sites. You can find a full list of embeddable sites here.
Why and When to Use Sway

6. What can be imbedded in a Sway?
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Pulse
Microsoft Sway
Mixcloud
Poll Everywhere
Sketchfab
SoundCloud
Vimeo
Vine
YouTube
What can be imbedded in a Sway?
Esri ArcGIS Online
GeoGebra
Giphy
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Maps
Infogram
Microsoft Channel 9
Microsoft Docs.com
Microsoft Office Mix
Microsoft OneDrive (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents)

7. How do I access Sway? Log in to your 365 account, or any Microsoft account/
Hotmail.

8. Wait, isn't this email. Yes
Wait, isn't this ? Yes. But 365 has many apps, and is just one of them!

9. Templates Resumes Newsletters Vacation Stories DIY Project Recap
Portfolios
Blogs
Student Reports
Presentations
Templates

10. Start from a document
Start from a topic
Create an outline with your topic
How to Start

11. Click on "Create New"
Creating a Sway

12. Insert button also opens search bar for internet content.
Add Sway title here.
Adding a title with an image: Give your Sway a title Click where it says "Drag image here." Notice the search window that slides open. This happens when you click "insert," too.
Click here to open search function.
Search your topic here for online suggestions.

13. Adding new Slides (content)
Click the "+" to add content.
Decide what kind of content you would like to add here.

14. Stacks look like this. Click on images and they flip like a stack.
Change "automatic" to "stack" to see a stack of images to flip through instead of a grid.
Picture Display Options: Drag and drop card onto each other to group them together. Create a stack or grid of grouped images.
Grids look like this.
Stacks look like this. Click on images and they flip like a stack.

15. Remix!
Click "Remix" to see other layouts and designs for your presentation. If you don't like it remixed, click the "undo" arrow next to it.

16. Click here to share. Choose "Anyone with link" to make it viewable by anyone you share the URL with.
Sharing a Sway Click "Share" Copy the URL to , write on the board, tweet, etc.

17. Examples of ways to use Sway
Units of study:
The Alamo
The Revolutionary War
Art Display
Musical Compilation
Video Compilation
Book Study
Author Study
Science pictures with definitions, links, videos
Science fair project
PBL
Research report
Examples of ways to use Sway

18. Presentations – Teachers and students can use Sway as a presentation tool for learning
eTextbooks – create your own eTextbook with links, information, videos, images and questions. You can then direct students to different website, using Sway as the base learning pathway
Picture Books – get students to create a storybook using Sway
Experiment and Research Reports – use sway to show research, experiment videos and results. You could even make your next science report using Sway.
Artwork or Multimedia Portfolio – Use Sway as a product portfolio to show a number of your own creations. Spend some time to explain what your project was, and why you created it
More ideas for Sway

19. Even more ideas for Sway
Dictionary – Sway would make an awesome picture dictionary for English as Another Language or Language Other Than English students. Set groups the task to create dictionaries complete with audio tracks (uploaded to sound cloud)
Book and Film Reviews – This multimodal tool makes a wonderful platform for students to create literacy focused tasks such as reviews and analysis pieces
Professional Learning Resource – Create a Sway for professional learning by bringing together links, help, examples and advice for teacher colleagues with which you are working
Flipped Learning content delivery – use Sway to deliver your unit of study. Bring all the content together and allow students to view it at home in one space. Share the link, and you’re done
School Showcases – Bring the best of your school together, simply choose images, text and video then embed your Sway on the front page of your school website. What a cool new way to share your school’s success.
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Even more ideas for Sway

20. Examples Examples of best practices:
State Flags
Project Recap for the class
Field trip study guide
Research report Red Panda
Maya Angelou
Examples