Lecture 8 Making online Presentation tools and steps Using slides The necessity of using ppt in class

3. Easelly
Infographics are incredibly popular online, and for good reason: They help make sense of facts, figures and statistics by illustrating their meaning and drawing connections between them. These are crucial skills for students learning to research, so why not let them create infographics to organize their findings? Easelly provides templates for students to use. Once they've chosen a format, they can type in their info and customize artwork to develop a fun, easy-to-read infographic on their topic.
4. Powtoon
If you like the look of infographics but want to animate them, Powtoon is for you. Powtoon provides slides like PowerPoint, but makes it a lot of fun to choose images, objects and characters come to life when you run the slide show. With plenty of basic templates and lots of options to personalize the animations, student are sure to find this a fun way to make their presentations more interesting for their classmates to watch.
5. Animoto
Teaching your class the finer points of video editing is very time consuming, but Animoto lets you take a major shortcut. This drag-and-drop program makes it easy for students to add video clips, photos and text that they cut together into a short, share video. This is perfect for creating PSAs, trailers, and advertisements as a capstone project, and teachers can get it for free.
6. Glogster
Remember the good old-fashioned poster project? This is still a great format for younger users making projects focused on a single topic or idea. Glogster brings the poster into the twenty-first century by allowing you to add clip art, video, audio and images directly to the screen — all while keeping everything on one page for easy navigation (and grading!).
7. VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a platform that allows students to share their presentations in a brand new way. It's not presentation software on its own, but it adds a layer of interaction to the projects students have already made. Upload a photo, report, slideshow, video, or other presentation into VoiceThread for others to see and comment on. Once they've seen your work, students and teachers can add video comments and questions for a more personal interaction. This is a great way to foster collaboration and critique via technology — particularly good for asynchronous teaching and learning.
Shaking up your presentation style is a great way to keep participants engaged in what they're doing, whether it's designing a new presentation or staying focused as they listen to their peers' reports. Before you dive in, it's always a good idea to preview any new software by making a presentation yourself. That way, you'll get a sense of how it works and be able to help troubleshoot any difficulties as they arise. And if you decide against using a new presentation platform with your class, you'll still have a nice new lesson to show for your effort.