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 * Creating Online Presentations**

Microsoft's //Powerpoint// and Apple's //Keynote// are two of the most popular presentation tools for teachers, students, library media specialists and administrators, and much has been written about the positive and negative impacts of these resources on teaching and learning. Powerpoint can be saved as a web document and shared on any webpage. But new web-based tools offer ways to publish and deliver those presentations as well as some new tools for creating presentations--and most are free, can be accessed from home, school, or the classroom, and foster collaboration.

Using online presentation tools can open the opportunities for both you, as a teacher, and for students to present in a different way as well as what they present
 * Using Presentation Tools**
 * Help students create digital stories, escrapbooks, projects and reports
 * Teach about creating effective presentations - basics and "beyond bullet points"
 * Provide a mechanism for groups of students or colleagues to work collaboratively on a presentation
 * Provide multimedia alternatives for book reports and book reviews
 * Help students and teacher create better presentations
 * Structure meetings
 * Structure presentations to groups
 * Provide background for a guest speaker
 * Provide media center orientation information - available to all at any time
 * Enhance wikis
 * Create interest in a topic, title, or author
 * Demonstrate new technology tools
 * Create promotions for new titles and events
 * Create visuals for morning news programs
 * Make training and workshop presentations available for review
 * Record school and media center events and make them available to parents, teachers, students
 * Present new information to teachers and/or students
 * Promote book fairs and special events
 * Create presentations to parents - available later online for review or for those who could not attend
 * Organize research on topics of interest
 * Create slideshows and online presentations for and with teachers on unit or lesson topics and make available to students from the media center, classrooms or homes
 * Create templates for student work
 * Work collaboratively on a presentation with a colleague
 * Present remotely - without having to carry equipment or worry about fonts, etc.
 * Create step by step tutorials on any topic with photos, illustrations, narration, audio
 * Create online booktalks and trailers for new titles or topics of interest
 * Create templates for projects and research reports - group or individual