Do you want to present with panache, style or flair? If you or your learners spend a lot of time trying to make your PowerPoint slides look good, then welcome to PowerPoint’s inbuilt Designer or Design Ideas to power up your PowerPoint presentation in the click of a button!
Category: Presentations
PowerPoint Presenter Coach to help become clear, confident and expressive when communicating & presenting
If you are looking for a way to support learners (or indeed, yourself!) to be clear, expressive and confident when communicating & presenting to others using digital tools, then Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Coach is a handy feature of Microsoft PowerPoint.
And…Action! Creating a Teaching Video
Looking to create a teaching video? If you wish to create a teaching video to share with your class then where do you start? There are a number of different ways to create a teaching video. You don’t need lots of fancy filming equipment, specialist lighting, highly scripted text, remote microphones or a studio set! …
Build an interactive virtual classroom in Microsoft Teams
You’ve no doubt seen lots of teachers sharing their interactive virtual classroom images – a visually-friendly way to connect with your learners via an online platform where they can click on elements in the picture to view details of learning activities, or view videos, or read books chosen for the class, or click on …
Apple Clips for Creating Videos for Sharing Learning
Apple Clips is a neat free video-creation app for iPad or iPhone. It lets you quickly combine text, music, graphics, recorded voice, images, and animations to create videos with ease. So if you are trying to find a way to explain a topic or a teaching point then you might find Apple Clips a handy …
Stop-motion animation with Stikbot iPad app in the classroom
Stop-motion animation creation by pupils in a classroom is an engaging way for learners to demonstrate their learning. Whether that’s showing the steps in the processes involved in a numerical calculation (from something as simple as showing the story of 5 for young learners, or how to do long division to more complex mathematical equations); or to illustrate a …
Creating a Multi-user Collaborative Presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint Online
The go-to presentation-creation tool for many teachers and pupils is PowerPoint. So as your pupils are already familiar with using Microsoft PowerPoint then consider using Microsoft PowerPoint Online available to all Glow users in Scottish schools as part of Microsoft Office 365. PowerPoint Online is available anytime, anywhere with online access so can be accessed …
Sway for engaging online presentations
Microsoft Sway is a presentation tool which is free and works on any device. It can start with a simple word-processed document (or from other sources such as Powerpoint or PDF) where you’ve put your ideas and, with just a few clicks, you can upload the document, highlight text you wish to emphasise, which parts …
Improvise a coherent presentation from images you’ve never seen with PechaFlickr
PechaFlickr – for encouraging learners to think on their feet, and have fun as they try to improvise a coherent talk to a presentation of 20 random photographs which they have never seen before, each displayed for 20 seconds. This free online tool lets you specify a word (it’s set up by default to be …
Adding interactivity to videos with EDpuzzle
EDpuzzle is a free tool to let you add interactivity to online videos to help engage learners with the content rather than simply be passive viewers. You can select videos from a host of online hosts (including YouTube, Khan Academy and more) or ones you have uploaded yourself, crop the video to show only the part you are …
