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Saved by Phil Bradley
on April 8, 2017 at 1:13:43 pm
We've all heard of death by Powerpoint. Those tedious presentations where the speaker nervously reads everything off the slides which we have already scanned. It's no fun for them, and it's not much fun for us either. However, there are a number of tools that you can use to make presentations much more fun and interesting.
Adobe Voice
This is a very simple app that you can use to create a small story video. It's great if you want to do an explainer video for example, or show and tell or to promote an idea. You simply record your voice, add in the image(s) that work with what you've said, save and move on. For a company that normally creates really complicated software, this is refreshingly simple and easy to use.
This is another really simple tool that you can use to create professional quality videos. Simply choose the images that you want, (including video if you prefer) and Animoto will create a short 30 second video combining music, movement, visual effects and so on. You can visit the website at https://animoto.com/
I've created a few examples if you want to have a look at them.
Explain Everything is a whiteboard application. It allows you to use your tablet device as a whiteboard, with a high level of interactivity. You can also record presentations for use later.
If you've wanted to produce PowerPoint type presentations, but with a twist, then you want to take a look at Haiku Deck. You open the application and write your content onto the slide. Choose your theme, and then Haiku Deck will suggest images that you could use as a background. These images are all professionally produced and of extremely high quality. It's very easy to create your deck, which you can then share as you wish.
Haiku Deck has a website at https://www.haikudeck.com/ and you can use the web version as well as an app based approach.
I have produced a few Haiku Decks - one I wrote specifically for a conference speech I was giving.
CILIP Conference 2015 - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;
The other was as a round up for another conference.
ILI 2015 - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;
Here's the course video on how to create your own Haiku Deck
Padlet is a slightly different presentation tool. The other tools that we've looked at have all been for fairly static presentations, but Padlet is a more active tool. Imagine an interactive wall, on which you could easily put post-it notes, move them around, add in video or photographs or files for other people to be able to use. That's basically what Padlet does - it's an electronic version. It's very quick and easy to create and you can share your work with other people. So for example if you were introducing a course, rather than go around the room and ask people what they wanted covered, you could get them to add to a course Padlet, and you could then move the post it notes around into different categories for example. A much more enjoyable and engaging approach.
Padlet is available on the web at https://padlet.com/ and you can also use it there as well as within the apps. You can embed the Padlet into your website or your blog, or as in this case, into the Wiki. Feel free to try it out and add some comments.
In the Padlet video you'll learn how to create an entirely digital world of post-it notes online. However, if you still like the 'old fashioned' approach with real notes, you can use a Post-it notes app to take photographs of your notes, record them, and then play around with them in a digital format.
Unfortunately they haven't produced a version for the Android or Windows devices.
ThingLink
ThinkLink is a tool that allows you to take images and add interactive links to them, such as videos, Twitter links and website addresses. These can then be shared via social media. They're a really good way to provide more content, so work well as an educational tool, a guiding tool, they're great with maps and so on.
Create a presentation using one of the tools above. Share the link to it in the comments. Also feel free to add comments to the Padlet that is embedded in this page.
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