the song of peter allen Everything old is new again came to my mind when I started writing this post. That’s because this week’s tip is about taking some of your old favorite slideshows and turning them into new things for your students.
ClassPoint
ClassPoint is a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to add interactive questions, polls, whiteboards, and quizzes to your existing slides. With ClassPoint enabled, your old slideshow can be turned into a new interactive activity for your students. To interact with your slide students, simply go to classpoint.app and enter a class code that you give them. They don’t need to register or log in to an account to interact with your slides.
A full description of ClassPoint can be obtained seen here either read here.
Formative
Formative is a tool I’ve used for the past six or seven years to turn images, PDFs, and Google Slides into interactive learning and assessment activities. One of the many features Formative offers is the ability to upload images and PDFs or import Google Slides to which you can add interactive bookmarks. You can add quiz questions to those interactive markers or just add additional clarifying information for your students.
If your old slides are in PowerPoint format, save them as PDF before importing them into Formative to make them interactive. If your slides are in Google Slides format, you can import them directly into Formative to make them interactive. jump to the 1:22 mark on this video to see how I like using Formative.
Lumio
Lumio is a SMART service that you can use to take your existing PowerPoint or Google Slides and turn them into a variety of learning activities for your students to complete online. Some of those activities include virtual manipulatives, whole class games, and individual games. In fact, Lumio offers a dozen templates that you can use to create games with your slides.
Cousin! Turn slides into narrated videos
Narakeet is a tool you can use to turn your PowerPoint slides into a narrated video lesson for your students to view. Narakeet offers twenty voiceover options to choose from. You can adjust the speed of the voiceover and choose to have subtitles automatically added to your video. Look at this video to see how Narakeet works.
50 Tech Tuesday Tips and Workshops
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