1. Free, Fun, Alternatives
to PowerPoint

2. What Could Possibly Be Better?
 Prezi
 www.prezi.com
 A great way to jazz up your presentations!

3. Prezi Features

4. How Much Will Prezi Cost Me?

5. Refer 3 People…Get Upgraded!

6. Your Prezi Dashboard

7. How to Get Started
 Building a presentation on Prezi is a lot easier than it looks
 Watch the instructional videos, and use some of your old PowerPoint
presentations to get

8. “Prezify” Your PowerPoints!
 The best way I have found to use Prezi (in the beginning)
 You don’t have to make your own content to start, just import one of your
old PowerPoints!
 Play around inside the Prezi software to make it look cool
 There is a video called “Prezify Your PowerPoint”

9. Empressr
 www.empressr.com
 View Empressr tutorial
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rMT9mMkSE

10. Empressr

11. Instructions

12. Empressr Categories
 Google
 Yahoo
 PhotoBucket
 Flickr
 Or use your built-in webcam to take a picture and insert directly into your
presentation
Import Images From…

13. Empressr is a Community!

14. Getting Started

15. Importing Your PowerPoint

16. Loading….

17. PowerPoint Loaded!

18. Empressr Dashboard

19. What Could Possibly Be Better?
 Zohoshow
 http://www.zoho.com/docs/online-presentation-tool.html

20. ZohoShow Front Page

21. ZohoShow Features

22. Why Try ZohoShow?

23. Questions? Go to the Forum!

24. Photo Peach
 www.photopeach.com
 Probably the easiest to use of all of the sites.

25. How to Make a Presentation
 Facebook
 Picassa
 Your computer

26. Photos Uploaded

27. Choose Music & Name Show

28. Example… My Weekend in Seattle
Notice the “Ken Burns Effect”, as the program
zooms in and zooms out on each photo as it shows
Story View

29. Convert PowerPoint Slides
 Take a “screen shot” of each of your PowerPoint slides
 “Prt Scr”, then paste into Paint, then save the picture
 Insert the pictures into PhotoPeach
 Your PowerPoint will play with the press of a button…and include
background music!
Technology for Free!
 http://bit.ly/computerrookie

30. Other Alternatives to PowerPoint
PhotoStory
Movie Maker
Tikatok – imagine a story, create a book http://www.tikatok.com/
Animoto – create videos http://animoto.com/
Voicethread – photos with commentary http://www.voicethread.com
Photopeach – slideshows http://photopeach.com/
Glogster – interactive posters http://www.glogster.com/
Letterpop- brochures, invitations http://www.letterpop.com/
Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
Pixton – create your own comics http://pixton.com/uk/
GoAnimate – cartoons and animations http://goanimate.com/
The list below are not what would be considered “slide
presentation applications” but can be an alternative for students to
demonstrate their understanding to the class.