Happy Friday everyone!!
I am sure that everyone has become
tired of the tried and true power point presentations and has experienced the prospective
motion sickness when the ‘Prezi’ frames move about too quickly on the screen. This week I would like to introduce you to a
new option which you (and your students) can use to create and edit presentations
online and on the web – Haiku Deck.
Haiku Deck is a free iPad/iPhone app (Haiku Deck) and online web tool (haikudeck.com) that lets you create presentations with over 35 million fantastic
images and 6 presentation themes. By
creating an account and clicking on ‘New Deck’ you can begin creating your
unique and colourful presentation. The
unique feature that Haiku Deck offers is that you can save your presentation on
one web tool (i.e. iPad) and retrieve it from your home computer and vice
versa. Additionally, when you are
creating your slides, simply type in a key word (i.e. anxiety, books, biology)
and Haiku Deck searches the web and locates Creative Commons licensed images
for you to use. If you would rather, you
can add your own images or screen shots to the deck from your photo stream, Instagram,
Facebook page, Flickr, Picasa or Google Drive, then share your finished
presentations on a variety of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest, Google+ and Slideshare. You
can even hook your phone or iPad up to a projector and present directly from
it, embed the deck in a blog or website, or download a PDF version to use for a
handout. The iPad app version of Haiku
Deck allows you to include private notes to guide your presentation or public notes
for everyone to view as they follow along.
Decks can be published with three different privacy settings – private to
be viewed only by you, restricted to be viewed only by those you grant
permission to and public which is available for anyone to view and search out
on Google.
One favourite feature of Haiku
Deck is the user friendly format. When
you are not sure how to begin or where to go next, simply click on the question
mark in the upper right hand corner and you will immediately view an overlay
which describes the possible actions available to you. Once you decide what you would like to do
next, simply click on the screen and the overlay disappears to allow you to
continue creating.
Finally, in honour of teacher’s
appreciation week, Haiku Deck has offered to give teachers ANY OF THEIR PREMIUM
THEMES FOR FREE. Just open up the iPad app tap on Themes, and select
any locked theme showing a green $ in the corner, and it’s your for free – but only
until May 10th!!
I hope that you find Haiku deck
to be a useful and productive tool for yourself and your students.
Cheers,
Stace
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