Presentation+Tools

= Presentation tools: =

Many educators have had concerns over sharing/using internet videos, etc in classrooms. How/where can you access them or save them easily for future use without clogging your own precious web site/ server space. Online sites have emerged to help.

Video:
**YouTube:** http://www.youtube.com/ - Many people think of silly pointless videos when they think of YouTube. You can do a keyword search or go straight to their “Educational Channel” to find informative or instructional videos. (The helpful videos on this site have come from YouTube.) You can link to the website or even embed the video into your site.

http://teachertube.com/ - This site is carefully monitored and its focus is on being used by educators. It has often run much slower than YouTube, but you can feel secure about the content on the site and not waste time sifting through junk or inappropriate content.
 * TeacherTube:**

Images:
http://www.flickr.com/ - mentioned earlier with social networking, it is also a great site for sharing images and finding images to use for student work. Take your images to the next level you can use these sites to edit and have fun with your photos from Flickr: (some aspects/tools require a membership to use, but most are free.) [] [] []
 * Flickr:**

Not directly linked to FLikr, but fun sites [] []

http://www.slide.com/ -No longer do you have to fumble through a PowerPoint presentation if you want to create a slideshow of images. Slide.com easily creates a slideshow from your pictures, music and video, complete with special effects. The slideshow can be embedded into a website.
 * Slide.com:**

http://www.slideshare.net/ -This is the place to share your PowerPoint presentations with others. Once you’ve uploaded your presentation, you can access anywhere you have internet access, so you no longer have to worry about having the original file with you hen you are presenting away from work or home. The presentation also can them be embedded in another site making it easy for students/parents to access it from home.
 * SlideShare:**

http://web2hotspot.wikispaces.com/PhotoStory - Scott Staub's wiki with info about PhotoStory PhotoStory must be installed on your hard drive.
 * PhotoStory:**

Reading About Presentation Tools:
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study. (2001). Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year-olds. http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Generation-M-Media-in-the-Lives-of-8-18-Year-olds-Report.pdf

McCollum, Kimberly. (2008). Slideshare and "Presentation Design Tennis" in an online course. http://kamccollum.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/slideshare/ Oystein & Meg, (2001). Introducing the Book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Young, Jeffrey. (2007). When Scholars Go YouTube-ing. http://chronicle.com/media/video/v53/i36/youtube/ The online video source is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Unknown. (2008). Creating Online Presentations. http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools