Thursday, November 13, 2014
A different way to present
As teachers, we do a lot of presenting and sometimes the same old PowerPoint or Google Slides gets old. Haiku Deck tries to break the cycle of bullet points and clip art with a simple (think "haiku") image-heavy design. Haiku Deck offers thousands of beautiful, well-categorized images to choose from (or use your own, of course). It's free, web-based, and can be installed as a Chrome app.
10 Tips to Transform Your Presentations - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
If it's not a full presentation, but just an image or infographic you need, check out Canva, which even offers "design school" for the less aesthetically capable among us.
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So, I don't disagree with the tips, but it would be helpful to see examples of the use of this in an actual lecture where students are getting information and taking notes. I would love to get a sense of how to balance getting the materials across to visual learners without typing everything I say into the ppt, but I also want to support students who respond to reading materials in addition to listening to them.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great point.It is definitely important to match the tool to the desired outcome. I think some of these methods would work better for big-picture concepts rather than nitty-gritty details, or for areas where a lecture/class conversation is following a reading, or as other kind of review, rather than initial exposure to information. Here's a short example of a haiku deck on poetry terms: http://goo.gl/bRNCSL and one for persuasive writing prompts: http://goo.gl/3B0YRk
Deletebut neither of those deliver a ton of content.