Transcript Presentation Tech Tools: Alternations to Writing a Research Paper

Presentation Tech Tools:
Alternatives to Writing a Research
Paper
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Animoto -- Create easy videos and presentations using photos, images, videos, and music
Audacity -- Free audio editing and recording
Evernote -- Create notes and idea lists that are accessible anywhere through the cloud
Freeplay Music -- Copyright-free music to download
Haiku Deck -- Presentation software to create fun, beautiful,and effective slides
Jeopardy Labs -- Online Jeopardy template to create study games
Mixbook -- Create custom photo books, scrapbooks, or cards
Movie Maker -- Import photos and videos and add or edit audio
Photo Story -- Create slideshows using digital photos and personalize them with captions, special effects, music, voice
narration
PicMonkey -- Edit photos and create custom collages
Popplet -- Create digital idea webs, collect materials related to a subject, or create a digital posterboard
Prezi -- A fun alternative to Powerpoint that allows you to organize your information visually
Quizlet -- study site that allows students to create customized learning tools, games, and digital flashcards
SlideRocket -- Import your Power Point or Google presentations to store in the cloud or build presentations that include
audio, video, and visual components
SlideShare -- Upload and share presentations, documents, and videos
Survey Monkey -- Create and distribute your own survey, then analyze the results
ToonDoo -- Create custom cartoons and comic strips
Wordle -- Create word clouds with a variety of color and formatting options to print, save, or share
ZooBurst -- Digital story telling tool that allows you to create 3D pop-up books
Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/Ways to Tell Your Story
Infographic: Infographics are packed with opportunities for exploring all types of literacies and
students can create them to display their knowledge and analysis of a topic, issue, piece of
literature, event, system, person’s life. Students collect and synthesize content on any topic with
an eye toward presenting patterns using charts, timelines, maps, and other graphics to illustrate
conclusions. For example, the topic of Italian Renaissance artists could be presented through
charts to compare style, training, support of patrons, colors used, and subjects of paintings.
Check out this Guide for models, as well as resources and inspiration on using Infographics as a
creative assessment. Also check here for charting tools.
Annotated works cited: Students search for the best materials relating to their question or thesis
and evaluate them for relevance, scope, point of view, and credentials of the author. Posted on
the Web, these selective lists may be especially useful for future researchers. Check this Guide
for a model.
Pathfinder: Students create a path for future researchers on a defined area of knowledge.
Students carefully evaluate available resources and select and annotate the best print and online
sources, offering search strategies, context for the topic, question or thesis, and concluding
summaries reflecting on the issues they discover while researching. If these are designed as wikis
or blogs they may be shared and may serve to guide other researchers.
Curated pages: Assess learners’ skills in identifying quality, appropriate sources by having them
curate and share content using such online tools as: Livebinders, Google Sites, Sqworl, Diigo,
Scoop.it
Newsletter: Using a desktop publishing program or a blog and ask students to set their
newsletters in another time or place or culture. They create classified ads, theater and book
reviews, sports stories, and business information. This is a perfect collaborative project. Consider
using Microsoft Publisher, a Google Docs Templates, or LetterPop, or blogging software.
Debate: Choosing two historic (or modern) figures and an issue, students duke it out. The rest of
the class is responsible for asking questions and judging the debate. Videotape the debate for
later discussion or for sharing with another class. Consider using a VOIP program like Skype to
involve a class from another school.
Brochure: Using a desktop publishing program, like Publisher, Google Doc templates,
MyBrochureMaker, or SimpleBooklet students create flyers to advertise a product they’ve
developed, a place they’ve researched, a period of time, a solution to a problem, or to offer
health advice.
Résumé: Using a desktop publishing program, (like Google Docs or LetterPop), students create
professional-looking (print, online or multimedia) résumés for a famous person and attach cover
letters in the individual’s voice. They might simulate interviews of the historical figure applying
Ways to Leave
Your Term
Paper/Ways to
Tell Your Story
Using PowerPoint:
What’s is good about this model?
Visual and Creative Thinking
Power Point Do's and Don'ts
Resources for You:
PowerPoint Tips
Using Movie Maker
Introduction and Walkthrough:
Windows Live Movie Maker