Alternatives to PowerPoint

ThingLink Pros

• Able to search the web for links
• Great for sharing about a specific topic
• Can connect to videos, web articles, audio clips and more with embeded hyperlinks
• Can upload photos from computer easily
• User-friendly

ThingLink Cons

• Not the best tool if you want to share a "slide presentation" with a group
• Better used for sharing with an individual or group of individuals
• No drawing or narration features available

Educreations pros

• Able to record voice while creating lessons
• Great for providing lessons to students in a "flipped" classroom model
• Able to upload photos easily
• Connect with DropBox, Gogle Drive, and photo stream
• Easily shared from the iPad app

Educreations Cons

• Need to upgrade to "pro" to upload PDFs and PowerPoints
• Difficult to use on a computer. You are only able to draw, not type. And saving and exporting was difficult to figure out.
• The typing, sharing, and photo features are best utuilized through the iPad app

Projeqt pros

• Able to upload PDFs and PowerPoints
• Directly connect to YouTube, Blogs, and social media platforms
• Easily able to create unique designs
• User-friendly

Projeqt cons

• Difficult to share with others
• Challenging knowing how to "finish" presentation
• Projeqt does not provide templates for creating presentations
• Cannot include hyperlinks in a slide

PhotoPeach Pros

• Easy to upload pictures for slides
• An array of music options
• Can be an interactive quiz or simply informational
• Viewer is able to post comments at the end of the video

PhotoPeach cons

• Program uploaded my photos sideways or upside-down
• When creating the initial show, I could not type directly on the slide. I had to view the show, then click edit to have better editing capabilities.
• Not as user-friendly

nearpod pros

• Able to upload PowerPoints, PDFs, JPGs, audio and video files
• Interactive slide show for students to join in with Pin Number.
• Easily able to add activities such as quizzes, polls, and response questions.
• Ability to Google Image search within the website
• Can easily add to an existing powerpoint presentation and/or combine it with other types of files.
• Very User Friendly

Nearpod cons

• There are no templates provided in Nearpod, so you are not able to customize your layout.
• Must create slides in PowerPoint and upload in order for it to have a customized background.

Haiku deck Pros

• Very basic and straight-forward ways to pick text layout
• Able to search web for background photos
• Extremely user-friendly
• Easily able to export presentation

Haiku Deck cons

• Need "pro" version to add videos to presentation
• Cannot add recordings or narrations to presentations
• Not interactive
• No drawing tools provided