Presentation tools

Thinglink is something I could see using as a librarian to offer resources and/or describe student projects for my students and parents. It offers a nice way to organize information without cluttering up the screen with everything at once like when you try to put it on a page. My group for 678 is using Thinglink for our summer reading program design. We have one image with all of our books that we are using to link different resources for each book. Students would be able to access everything for our program from the one image. I could also see using Thinglink to share a project or special activity with my parents and students.

Haikudeck looks like it would be a lot of fun to create presentations on and that it could potentially be much easier to use than PowerPoint! It also might be something that would be much more student-friendly than PowerPoint and easier for them to make their own presentations to showcase their work or ideas.

With the popularity of graphic novels, I see a lot of potential with Pixton. I've watched students draw their own comic strips for the last few years. I can just see their eyes lighting up and the wheels start turning when they are given the opportunity to create comic strips on the computer! I was able to create a simple one without too much trouble, so I think it would be possible to teach them how to use the program. Most of them will probably catch on much faster than I did.