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Lesson plans and resources for your SMART Board - SMART Exchange

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Free interactive classroom resources - Get activities, games and SMART Notebook lessons created by teachers for teachers

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Scratch Tutorial 1: Make Your First Program - YouTube

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Scratch Tutorial 1: Make Your First Program - YouTube

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Scratch Tutorial 1: Make Your First Program

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Google for Education: Bringing Learning Online

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Google's privacy and security commitments for the tools we provide for schools.

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how to export a Pixie drawing as a jpeg - Google Search

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how to export a Pixie drawing as a jpeg - Google Search

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this shows how to convert your drawings into JPEG's. This is a photo format.

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how to export a Pixie drawing as a jpeg - Google Search

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Save Venn Diagram in Kidspiration as a JPEG ... Pixie-Finish Mother's Day Card, save to W drive and print out in color, make sure that Happy Mother's day is spelled out on it, student name is ... in Pixie Use Drawing tool, stickers etc to draw a picture for your mom ...

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6 Easy Ways to Send Pictures from Your Cell Phone to Your Computer

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Join the 2017 Student Blogging Challenge – Starts October 1 – The Edublogger

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Want to learn more about blogging with your students while connecting with classes around the world?

The Student Blogging Challenge is run twice a year beginning in March and October.

It is made up of a series of ten weekly tasks which you can customize for your class.

The next Challenge starts on October 1. It is a great way to connect your students with a global audience while helping to develop their blogging skills.

It is organized by Sue Wyatt (@tasteach) with help from Sue Waters, and the team at Edublogs.

The Student Blogging Challenge is open to both class blogs and individual student bloggers from all over the world. All age groups can participate. Blogs don't need to be hosted by Edublogs, but your blog must be public.

The Weekly Activities

Each week a post is published on the Student Blogging Challenge blog with a list of activities for your class or students to choose from. The students only need to complete one activity each week, but if they want to do more they can.

During The Challenge students learn about:

Creating pages and posts

Creating avatars

Digital citizenship

Commenting skills

Connecting with students globally

Using tools and embedding on their blog

Some weekly topics are similar every time The Challenge is run because they are important skills for both teachers and students to have.

Some examples include:

1. About me - creating avatars and an About page. This includes digital citizenship and cyber safety.

2. Let's comment - teaching what makes a quality comment, how to connect through commenting and again, cyber safety and digital citizenship.

3. Using images - using Creative Commons images, giving attribution, and tools for using images in posts.

The other weeks of The Challenge are based around a topic such as food, games, government, history, maths or nature.

Registration

There are three registration forms:

Mentors Needed

There have been over 2000 students in the last few challenges and it isn't possible for organizer Sue Wyatt to visit them all regularly.

Can you help?

You might be a teacher, principal, educational coach, parent, retired teacher or a trainee teacher. If you would like to get involved with student blogging, you can register as a mentor. You will be asked to help by reading and commenting on posts from 20-30 students during the ten week challenge.

Perhaps you even know someone you could you could ask to help?

Register Now!

Think you might be interested in joining the October 2017 Student Blogging Challenge?

Register here now! Remember, The Challenge begins on October 1.
Please comment if you have any questions about The Student Blogging Challenge.

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DigitalCitizenshipHandout.pdf | Powered By Box

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DigitalCitizenshipHandout.pdf | Powered By Box

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Digital Citizenship check out the PBS website!

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18 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers And Students - eLearning Industry

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18 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers And Students - eLearning Industry

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Summary: Do you believe that digital storytelling is important in education? Are you looking for a creative, critical, and powerful way to help your students? Would you be interested in a list of free digital storytelling tools?

Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers And Students
Editor's note: We have originally written and published this article in February 2013. Thanks to your useful suggestions and our own following of the latest developments in the fast paced field of technology, we have updated this piece in November 2015 in the hope that you will keep finding it useful. Thank you for sharing!
Stories are important. At the following list you will find 18 free digital storytelling tools, both websites and apps, which will help you use technology to tell a story while being highly creative and having fun.

11 Free Digital Storytelling Websites

1. Capzles
All of your media and stories together like never before. Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs, and documents.

2. Comic Master
Comic Master allows you to create your own short graphic novel! With Comic Master you can decide how you want the page or your graphic novel to look, add backgrounds, choose characters and props to appear in your scenes, add dialogue and captions, and much more.

3. Slidestory
Slidestory allows you to combine picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption. Isn't this a very exciting way to make presentations and share them?

4. ZooBurst
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D popup books. ZooBurst books "live" online and can be experienced on your desktop or laptop computer, or on your iPad via the free ZooBurst mobile app. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. The basic, free, account allows you to create 10 books of 10 pages each.

7 Free Apps For Digital Storytelling

1. Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

2. Toontastic
Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app and kids can't stop creating!

3. 30hands Starter
A very easy and exciting way to tell a story, explain a concept, or flip a classroom. Create a multimedia presentation in minutes and publish it as a video to share. This tool was designed to be simple and fast, so it takes backseat to learning and expression. In a single class period, students can complete a video activity. Mapping these activities to a longer project helps students make PBL projects authentic and fun. Whether you are in Kindergarten or College, 30hands Storyteller helps you learn better by following UDL principles and getting you to think and create iteratively.

You may also find the following lists of tools useful:

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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Thousands of copyright free and copyright friendly images and photos for teachers and students.

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Google for Education: Innovative Tools to Enable New Ways of Learning

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Google for Education: Innovative Tools to Enable New Ways of Learning

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Google for Education: Innovative Tools to Enable New Ways of Learning

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Center for Teaching and Learning at Queens College » QC G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education)

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Center for Teaching and Learning at Queens College » QC G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education)

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learn about G Suite, and get an account!

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Queens College has a G Suite for Education environment, for use by QC students, faculty, and staff.

With G Suite, you can create documents and websites, store and share files, create and share calendars, and much more. Using QC G Suite has some advantages over using regular Google Apps (including unlimited Google Drive storage space), and gives you access to some specialized software not available on the public Google Apps environment. We hope you enjoy using these tools!

Below are some frequently asked questions about G Suite for Education. Google also has an excellent page on Common Questions regarding G Suite for Education.

The environment is maintained by the Center for Teaching & Learning in collaboration with the Office of Information Technologies.

If you have questions, let us know.

Why G Suite for Education? Frequently Asked Questions

What's the benefit of using G Suite for Education?

G Suite is free.

G Suite offers integration between files stored on the Google Drive and all other Google Apps functions. Among other things, this means:

Groups, like listservs, will be able to maintain their own files.

Sites made in Google Apps will have their own file repositories, which obviates the need to upload files to a site.

Google Documents are embeddable in other web sites like Blackboard and WordPress.

Your data is more secure in the QC G Suite environment than in public Google Apps. Be sure to read this, however: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/181692?hl=en

If you have questions about the terms of service for the QC G Suite environment, you should read this: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/

It is easier to share Google Docs, Sites, and other tools with people within QC: rather than knowing a colleague's specific Google account, all QC G Suite for Education accounts will be based on an individual's QC identity: you can look up a person by QC email address.

With QC G Suite, you get unlimited Google Drive space. You can use Google drive to store files and share them with others on a file-by-file or folder-by-folder basis. Google documents in the drive provide one of the most sophisticated ways to share and collaborate on documents available anywhere.

Who can sign up for an account?

Anyone with a valid QC ID - faculty, students, and staff - can get an account. (You must have activated your email and AD accounts in CAMS, http://cams.qc.cuny.edu.)

How do I get an account?

To activate your account, go to gdrive.qc.cuny.edu and log in with the same username and password as you use to access your CAMS account or QC wifi. Don't have your QC Username? Go to https://cams.qc.cuny.edu/.

Once your account is activated, you can log in at this page to access all of the Queens College G Suite for Education: https://google.com/a/qc.cuny.edu/

To request a departmental account, submit this form to the OIT Help Desk in Dining Hall 151.

How do my visiting students, who do not have QC CAMS accounts, get access to QC G Suite for Education?

Contact your department chair.

What can I do with a QC G Suite account that I couldn't do before?

Create appointments in Google Calendar

Create a Google Classroom

Require login for submission of Google Forms by people with QC accounts, which allows collecting user information

Create a website with "qc.cuny.edu" in the URL

Maintain all of your QC-related files in one place easily shareable with collaborators within and outside of QC

Create and maintain your own tech projects using Google's Apps Engine and make them available within QC

Easily invite other QC members to video/audio/text conferencing through Google Hangouts

and much more!

I don't want to use Gmail.

Gmail is not activated for QC's G Suite for Education. You can continue using your QC-issued email account (Outlook for faculty and staff, Office365 for students), which is the email address where all correspondence related to your QC G Suite account will be sent.

I want to use Gmail.

Gmail is not activated for QC's G Suite for Education. If you want to use Gmail, you can do so outside of QC's G Suite environment, through a private account you set up yourself. You will receive all correspondence related to your QC G Suite account at your QC issued email account (Outlook for faculty and staff, Office365 for students).

Does G Suite for Education work in my browser?

Yes. You can access all of your Google Apps through your browser, and the best browser to use is Google's Chrome browser, https://www.google.com/chrome/, though Google Apps works well in other standard browsers.

You can also access QC G Suite through apps you install on your desktop computer or other device. For example:

Drive: for Mac/PC and Android, iOS
Hangouts: for Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod https://www.google.com/hangouts/
Calendar https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/1340696?hl=en

Can I share my files with an entire class or office?

Automatically, not at this time. Manually, of course. See the following Google help document for sharing instructions: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494822?hl=en

Will G Suite for Education work on my iPhone, Android, or other mobile device?

Yes. Google Apps will work best on mobile devices if you use the app made for your device: for iOS or for Android phones and tablets.

Are my information and documents secure?

If you want added security, use 2-Step Verification for your account. Remember that Google Apps give you options for sharing documents with others within and outside QC, so your data and documents will be as secure as you make them. For more information:
https://support.google.com/googleforwork/answer/6056693?hl=en

What if I already have a Google Account with my QC email address?

Google has an easy way to resolve conflicting accounts: https://support.google.com/a/answer/185186?hl=en

I want to move my personal Google Drive files over to my QC Google Drive. How do I do this?

Share your personal files with your G Suite for Education account. If you want the latter account to be the owner of the files, you will have to make a copy of the files. You can't transfer ownership between domains (that is, from a personal Google account to your QC Google account).

How do I switch between a personal Google account and my QC Google account?

Look for your email address (usually displayed in the upper right hand corner of the browser) and click on it; if you don't see an email address, click on the blue avatar icon. You should see a dropdown with both accounts. Click the account which you would like to use. If your QC G Suite account isn't listed, click "Add account", which will take you to a sign-in page where you can add a new account.

Switching between accounts in the Android or iOS apps is similar: look for an icon with three horizontal lines, usually on the top left of the app screen. It will open up a way for you to select or add an account:

Can I export my Outlook Calendar to my Google Calendar?

Unfortunately, this is not currently possible with the version of Outlook that Queens College provides. If you have the full version of Outlook, you can right click on your calendar, choose the save option, and then specify what you want to do.
Import a calendar from Outlook or Yahoo!

Can I sync my Outlook Calendar and my Google Calendar?

No, this is currently not possible with the current Queens College settings. Some of us have been having variable success syncing between Outlook and Google Calendars with a third party app called GSyncIt .

How can I check the amount of storage left on my G Suite for Education site?

If you have a G Suite for Education account through Queens College, you have unlimited storage. If you want to see how much storage you are using, follow these instructions:

Click on the avatar icon in the upper right hand corner.

Click on the blue "My Account" button.

Once you are on your account page, click on "Your Google Drive Storage" under Account Preferences.

Afterwards, click on storage; you'll be able to see your storage information.

Can I still use the account after I graduate from school? Is there an expiration date?

After graduating, students will have access to their account for one month.

I have a question that's not listed in these FAQs.

Check out Google's Support Center : chances are your question is answered there.

You can also submit your question using this form. Do not use the form to ask time-sensitive questions. Instead, contact Rob Garfield, Rachel Stern, or Jean Kelly.

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Our video & written tutorials will help you get the most out of Jing

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Jing (Mac): Installation Instructions – TechSmith Support

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Jing (Mac): Installation Instructions – TechSmith Support

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Allows you to create voice over pages and videos. Free. Pro version 15.00/year

There are other screencast tools that may be better than this but many require purchasing. Google Screencastiing and see what comes up.

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Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Things You Can Do With Google Sheets

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As I mentioned yesterday in my run-down of ten ways to use Google Forms, Google Forms and Google Sheets is the part of G Suite for Education that I get most excited about teaching to others. My excitement comes from seeing how many applications for Google Forms and Google Sheets teachers develop once they understand the basics of how Forms and Sheets work. Here are ten ways that you can use Google Sheets once you understand the basics of how to use Sheets.

1. Send personalized emails to everyone in a group. Rather than sending a generic, "hi everyone" greeting you can address each person by name.

2. Create and display progress trackers. This is ideal for things like reading logs or fundraisers.

3. Create flashcards. You can make them or have your students make flashcards from the information in a Google Sheet.

4. Schedule room use. Keep track of who is using a meeting room and when.

5. Develop and publish multimedia timelines. Include pictures, videos, and maps in your timeline.

6. Keep track of iPad/ Chromebook carts in your school. The same logic can be applied to keeping track of anything commonly borrowed in your school.

7. Create maps of data sets. If your spreadsheet contains location data, you can map it from a Google Sheet.

8. Create rubrics and email grades from a spreadsheet. Email scores and feedback from the same place that you recorded scores and feedback.

9. Develop and manage a gradebook. If your school doesn't have a system-wide gradebook system in place, you can create your own in Google Sheets.

10. Create Jeopardy-style games. This staple of review games can be developed and played from a Google Sheet.

Register for Google Forms & Sheets for Beginnersto get started on using Google Forms for any or all of these purposes.

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As I mentioned yesterday in my run-down of ten ways to use Google Forms, Google Forms and Google Sheets is the part of G Suite for Education that I get most excited about teaching to others. My excitement comes from seeing how many applications for Google Forms and Google Sheets teachers develop once they understand the basics of how Forms and Sheets work.

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Free Technology for Teachers: Student Stories Drawings in ClassDojo

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Free Technology for Teachers: Student Stories Drawings in ClassDojo

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Student Stories is ClassDojo's student portfolio tool that they launched around this time last year. A few weeks ago I gave a run-down of new features that are going to be added to ClassDojo's Student Stories tool for the new school year. One of those features is an option for students to draw or annotate images in their portfolios. That feature is now live and ready for your students to use.

Applications for Education
Drawing on an image in a portfolio can be a good way for students to highlight the most important parts of an picture or of a diagram. In an art history lesson you could have students take a picture of a famous work and then use the drawing tool in Student Stories to highlight the techniques used by the artist.

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Presentation Software | Online Presentation Tools | Prezi

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Open Canvas

Create, organize, and move freely on an open canvas. Create seamless presentations without the restrictions of linear slides.

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Presentations and videos with engaging visuals for hybrid teams | Prezi Present

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Create Infographics, Charts and Maps - Infogram

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Create Infographics, Charts and Maps - Infogram

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Infogram: Create Infographics, Reports and Maps

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Infogram is an easy to use infographic and chart maker. Create and share beautiful infographics, online reports and interactive maps. Make your own here.

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Kahoot! | Learning Games | Make Learning Awesome!

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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PowToon | Create Animated Videos for Work or Play

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PowToon | Create Animated Videos for Work or Play

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Powtoon | Create Awesome Videos Yourself

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Powtoon gives you everything you need to easily make professional videos and presentations that your clients, colleagues, and friends will love! No design or tech skills are necessary - it's free, easy, and awesome!

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Five Best Online PHresentation Creation Tools

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Five Best Online PHresentation Creation Tools

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You don't have to download an office suite to build great-looking presentations for work, a talk, or school. There are plenty of online options that work well from any computer with a web browser, whether it's your desktop, a PC at work, or a laptop on the go. This week we're looking at five of the best.

There are plenty of good reasons to consider an online presentation app-by and large, the best ones are either free or low-cost, they store all of your data online for you to access when you need it, and you don't have to carry around files or your own computer to give a presentation-as long as there's a web browser where you're headed, you can give flawless talks-assuming you know your material of course-there's more to a great presentation than the slides. Still, earlier in the week we asked you for the best online presentation creation tools, and you gave us a bunch of great options. Here are your five top picks, in no particular order.

Haiku Deck was founded on the premise that simple, modern, and elegant slide decks should be the norm, instead of overly dense, difficult to read, and difficult to digest ones. Similarly, the service makes creating those presentations easy, thanks to its webapp (and iPad app). Slides made using Haiku Deck focus on imagery and graphics, with a few words per-slide, but you're free to customize your slideshows so they work best for the story you're trying to tell. You can see more than a few examples in Haiku Deck's featured presentation gallery, which gives you a quick feel for how your presentation might look if you used the service. Haiku Deck is completely free, and your account gives you access to over 35 million images and six presentation themes to choose from (additional premium themes and images are available to purchase.) You're free to upload and use your own images as well, or import them from sites like Instagram, Flickr, Dropbox, Google+ Photos, and more. The service also has chart and graph building tools built-in you can use to display data.

Those of you who nominated Haiku Deck supported it because it puts all of the tools you need right at your fingertips to create good presentations. If you have no idea how to license images for use in public presentations, or music, or the only tool you've ever used it PowerPoint and you don't want your slideshow to turn out like everyone else's, Haiku Deck is an elegant, easy to use alternative that handles the details for you. It has tons of presentation options, and you have the choice to make your slideshow private, public, or restricted to a few people. Many of you noted that it's great for people who just want a good looking presentation but don't want to spend all day creating one. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

Prezi isn't just a great online presentation tool, it's one of your favorite PowerPoint alternatives in general. The service made waves when it launched years ago because it gave users the ability to create dynamic, fluid, non-linear presentations with great animations and motion effects that lend an energy to a presentation that you won't get with a static series of one-after-the-other slides. Of course, with its popularity also came some overuse of those features, giving rise to some equally awful presentations that zoom and swoosh all over the screen, overusing motion effects to a dizzying degree. Even so, it's a highly popular tool that's all-online and free to use for anyone who wants to sign up. It's powerful in its own right, and allows you to visually show how ideas relate to one another instead of just putting one idea after another. It's best used for non-linear presentations, where you may need to go back to old topics, show how multiple topics are connected, and show how details relate to a greater picture. Prezi also allows you to make heavy use of images and multimedia, graphs and charts, and other original details to really make your presentation your own. Best of all, if you're working on a presentation with others, like for work or a class project, you can have everyone collaborate on the presentation together at the same time. Like we mentioned, Prezi is free (but all of your presentations will be visible to the public). If you need to use it for work, want storage for files, need privacy, want to edit offline, or want more features, there are premium plans and discounts for students and teachers available.

Those of you who nominated and supported Prezi's nomination liked the fact that you can build and edit your presentations on any device with a browser, and that your work syncs immediately with other devices, including mobile devices. Prezi's library of templates and media lets you find inspiration and use it in your own presentation, too. It's not perfect though-many of you shared your horror stories as well as your praise for the service, but overall, many of you appreciate Prezi's ability to create unique and dynamic presentations that break away from traditional slide decks. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

While other online presentation tools take a more dynamic approach and try to depart from the PowerPoint-esque style of presentations, Google Sides embraces it-and that's not a bad thing. If you're already familiar with tools like PowerPoint, want something familiar but simple and easy to use, Google Slides is the tool for you. In fact, we should mention it was Another of you favorite PowerPoint alternatives. It's come a long way since it was introduced, but it manages to incorporate a professional look and feel along with some interesting and dynamic transitions, images, presentation themes, and other tools that make it fun and refreshing to use. Like other Google Drive applications, Slides also allows you to collaborate in real time with other users, and everything is stored on the web, in Google Drive, so you can get to it any time, on any computer or device, or send it to anyone who needs to see it. Slides also makes embedding your own images, charts, graphs, videos, or just about any other type of multimedia relatively easy. Best of all, if you're coming from a PowerPoint world, Slides can open, save, and convert PowerPoint files. Offline editing is part of the package, and best of all, it's completely free. If you have a Google Account, you already have access to it and don't need to sign up for anything else.

Those of you who nominated it pointed out that it's free, easy to use, and offers a feature set that's on par with more complicated tools but a user interface that keeps things simple and easy to understand. It may not be flashy or dynamic, as some of you noted, but it's that simplicity that really makes it-and the presentations you create with it-stand out the way you want them to. You have more control, and you're not subject to someone's specific design preference for transitions or slide styles or themes. Others of you praised Google Slides' integration with and availability on mobile devices. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

If you like your presentation tools free, open-source, and either hosted on the web or hosted on your own GitHub repository, Reveal.js-and its online editor companion, Slides.com-are perfect for you. Reveal.js is framework that lets you build robust slide decks and presentations using HTML or Markdown, right in your browser, so you don't have to download anything. The builder is remarkably robust and well put together, not to mention simple and easy to use. It may seem like a developer's dream presentation tool, but you don't have to be one to make the most of it, or the online editor. It's easy to create animations, transitions, graphs and charts, or even upload and attach your own to your presentation. Reveal.js makes it easy to check out those presentations on the go, on any device, or embed them in your blog or web site so people can see them when they visit. Similarly, you can just send a link out to people to view your presentation, or save a PDF of your entire slideshow so pass around that way. There are also a ton of advanced features available too-you can create presentations and keep them private, present your deck offline, control your presentation from a mobile device, sync your work to Dropbox if you choose, and more. You can see a full list of features here, most of which are free, but some only available with a Pro account -or the ability to fork the whole project and add or manage them yourself.

Those of you who nominated Reveal.js and Slides.com all commented on how well built the tool is, and how easy it is to do things like nested slides, add speaker notes, and more either by forking the project on your own and running it yourself, or by using the free webapp. Some of you noted the open JavaScript API makes it easy for developers to add in their own features, not to mention save their presentations anywhere they want. You can read more praise in its nomination thread here, over here, and over here.

Keynote is best known as Apple's own presentation software that's part of the iWork productivity suite, but thanks to the iWork for iCloud Beta, Keynote is also available entirely online if you're looking for a web-based presentation builder (and you have an Apple account and access to iWork.) The web version brings most of the same features to the table as the desktop version. It can open PowerPoint files, sports tons of templates to make designing a great-looking presentation from scratch easy, and lets you upload and add your own media, charts, graphs, and other images if you don't want to use the site's built-in editors for them. If you're enamored with the transitions, styles, themes, and presentation types you've seen in Apple keynote speeches, or you just want a good-looking alternative to something like PowerPoint, it's worth a look if you have an iCloud account. All of your presentations are saved in iCloud, and available on your other Apple devices (and Windows PCs.) Similarly, you can present from any computer with a web browser, which is essential to being a good online presentation tool.

Those of you who nominated Keynote recalled its history as being the presentation tool built specifically for Jobs-era Apple keynote speeches, and for being a breath of fresh air in a very PowerPoint-powered world when it came to business presentations when it launched. Being able to work from and present from iOS devices or other devices is a nice touch as well, and the all-web editing tools make working on an Apple computer or a Windows PC easy as well. Also, it's completely free. However, it's worth mentioning that technically the service is in beta, and Apple could discontinue it or place restrictions on it at any time. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to a vote to determine the community favorite!

No honorable mentions this week, although a few of you expressed some curiosity for Microsoft's Office Sway, a new product that Microsoft recently announced that they're hoping will eventually be a complete shift in the way people create online presentations and multimedia. It's still new though, so the jury is out whether it'll displace other products, rise of its own accord, or, as some people have said, put PowerPoint out of its misery.

Have something to say about one of the contenders? Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is-and make your case for it-in the discussions below.
The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!

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