Prezi: presentations with perspective

Prezi rocks! Free for education. Preferred over powerpoint, more fun!

http://prezi.com/profile/signup/edu/

These prezi presentations show how prezi is new and different than linear boring powerpoint presentations. You'll be WOW'D. Think about the flexibility and creative advantages prezi provides. Makes presenters think on their feet and does not lock them into a linear discussion.

10 ways to say it with Prezi

New Perspective

Interactive Timelines

TimeToast.com create and share timelines.
Beautiful interactive timelines perfect for lectures or student projects! TONS are available to use already online, don't reinvent the wheel.

Interactive timelines can take the place of powerpoint presentations and would be great with smartboards too. You can also link to them from your class pages.

Here's a sample but they are better viewed full-screen:

http://www.timetoast.com/categories/10?page=2

Voki speaking avatar

Voki.com speaking avatar, use built-in laptop microphone to record any text. The custom avatar will speak along with your recording. Very amusing. You create an account so it saves your avatar, and you just change the recordings when you want.

How about a speaking version of yourself on your class page?

Language classes? Students can record themselves and email it to you.

Wordle, Tagul word clouds

Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ stunning word clouds!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or take a screen shot and past into PhotoShop to save a .jpg.


Tagul http://tagul.com/(live links on text) can be inserted in presentations. OR USED IN PLACE OF POWERPOINT for something less dated.

Tagul live link word clouds can be used as projects, linking to wikipedia or history or other web pages. Interesting to share among class members for informational projects.
Use for characterization, key quotes, parts of speech, get to know you activities
(Three words about self, 15 min. arrange it, screen shot it or print it)
Words about favorite character in a book

Free Publishing and eBooks

BookRix Free online book publishing , free ebooks and audiobooks
Kids can publish there. Can pick from stories, tag irony for examples, right click to do stuff
Dashboard for teacher

Blurb online publishing (yearbooks, etc) prints/publishes

Software for whiteboard or tablet:

DabbleBoard, chat questions in. videoconferencing on whiteboard with webcam.

Twiddla.com

Scribblar.com

Uniboard: getunivoard.com. Works with anything. Slate, tablet, polyvisions, etc.
***Wicked widgets (stopwatch, notes, compas, ruler, protracter, live wikipedia
SCREENRECORDING! Can publish to youtube!

Free Stuff!!!

Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/ lets students text a response to a poll, answers show live while coming in. graphical results.

Classtools.net
Class timer with custom music!
Live online ven diagrams, games, flashcard generator

Youtube+tooble tooble.tv
Click off choices and downloads to iTunes
Can save things in iTunes account, but need youtube account and need to be logged in for it to work

EasyBib: ALA or MLA formatting, autocite. Create Citation. If you make an account, saves what you create.

Cloudtrip.com 100's of cool tools

Jamendo: free classroom music : creative commons. 31,000 albums, free and legal. All nobodys. Spanish stuff, decode foreign language. Some crude.

Freeplaymusic.com. Rules are, can't use for sale, only non-profit.

Mobygratis.com will license music.

Eraserdog.com + free math worksheets every level. Games too. Control the problems not the book.

Englishexercises.org. youtube videos used for scaffolding. Can tooble it.
Thousands of these. Great for