Best Alternatives to PowerPoint. Let’s face it: PowerPoint isn’t the easiest to learn and use, especially if you’re wanting to elevate your design beyond headers and bullet points.
Thankfully there are other tools available today that allow you to easily create presentations — and have them look good, too. Here’s a look: 10 Good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons for Teachers. This afternoon I was asked if I could put together a list of my favorite Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons.
In the past I had put together lists of Sheets scripts, but most of those lists are outdated as Add-ons have mostly replaced scripts. Here's my updated list of my favorite Google Docs, Sheets and Forms Add-ons. My Favorite PowerPoint Shortcuts. This week I was reminded how much I hate traffic.
When I found myself rushing to a meeting yesterday morning downtown, you can guess how I felt seeing bumper to bumper gridlock. Luckily, I know a few shortcuts. Shortcuts. They are one of my life’s most beautiful things. The Secret to Activating Your Audience’s Brain. If you are like me, you are always looking for the latest and greatest ways to do things faster, better, and cheaper.
Personally, I get a thrill as I hunt for the best piece of hardware, software, or acclaimed process that will “change my life.” In the world of presentations, there is one key ingredient that will radically change them – specifically, how you engage your audience and how they perceive you. Share Your Presentations - Presentation Tools. Home - Presentation Tools. 8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations.
A good public speaker takes their audience on a journey, leaving them feeling inspired and motivated.
But structuring your speech to get your ideas across and keep your audience engaged all the way through is tricky. Try these eight storytelling techniques for a presentation that wows. You’re doing a presentation, so you start with the facts you want to get across. Microsoft in Education: Adding Value to Experiences both Inside and Outside of the Classroom. 7 Creative Student Design Projects to Try with Canva. There’s plenty of compelling evidence supporting the notion that visual-based learning is tied to better retention and recollection of new information as well as measurable success for students in the classroom.
A study by 3M Corporation yielded astounding results indicating that 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. It’s no surprise then that traditional pedagogical approaches — once epitomized by lecture-style, teacher-centric formats — are slipping into obscurity and quickly replaced by a new philosophy around education. Forget brute force delivery and ingestion. They’re no longer the mechanisms by which students acquire knowledge. In the last ten years, the dry and uninspired (read: boring) has transformed itself into unleashed creativity.
8 Simple Tools for Creating Engaging Infographics. Via eSchool News Information graphics, also known as infographics, provide a way to express complex data, ideas, or other information graphically.
Human beings are visual and adept at identifying patterns and trends quickly. Therefore, infographics often aid our understanding of otherwise dense, multifaceted, or complicated material.