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👍👍                   Screencast-O-Matic      pros - It's free! No login/ No account Can record an entire screen or only a portion It's very useful to teach/explain things because you can also record audio It’s super easy to use It places a yellow circle around the mouse so you don’t lose track of it It places a target over every mouse click Can save it to your computer as an mp4, flv or avi Can easily upload to YouTube or the Screencast-o-matic website for sharing Cons -   Doesn't offer as many attractive features/functions as some of the recording software You do not have the ability to edit your screencasts once they are published However the audio quality is quite good, the image(video) quality is notedly different from the original one Provide only 15 minutes of free recording time (You have to upgrade to Pro account to create longer ...

Created using Visme . The Free Online Presentation Tool. 👍                                  Visme Pros - Visme allows you to create beautiful presentations, infographics and banner ads quickly and easily. Plenty of Infographic and Banner ad templates, all of which look highly professional. The editor interface is sleek and very user friendly. At the same time, it's packed with features. Simple drag-and-drop designing. Huge range of free images, fonts, icons and infographic visuals. Customization including editing, deleting and moving objects is easy. Objects can be animated & given special effects. Slideshow slide transmissions can be given special effects.  Handy preview option. Good range of support documentation. Visme is extremely affordable, even for startups without many pennies to spare. ...

https://app.slidebean.com/p/vvcAeVxN9W/Easter 👌                          Slidebean         Pros - Again, it's easy and to the point, great for quick slides, fast and simple presentations, I used it for some lectures no issues really. Slidebean is super easy to use! It helped me create awesome looking presentations for my startup! Great customer success team! Never using PowerPoint again!  Easy to use Awesome looking presentation Great Design Team Great Customer Success team Great Pricing        Cons - Nothing It needs to grow a bit, I could use some other features, and maybe more kinds of elements, or an app to handle things on the phone, but as problems go, nothing major Slidebean was really easy to use.  You didn't have to create anything or design anything ...

👍                                                                 Emaze Pro - Unique presentation style Supports rich text editing Includes themes to choose from Basic presentation features Automatic spell check Can share the presentation with others through a unique link Over 40 slide templates Con - Lots of features only work if you upgrade to a paid subscription All presentations are made publicly accessible Doesn't save your work automatically Not everything on a slide is editable Can't save the presentation for offline use Can't change the font type of text Lacking common presentation features Unable to customize like other presenta...

👍👍                            PowToon Pro - Very colourful Great animations Fun cartoons and characters  There is an options to pay a fee but great access for no cost too Fairly easy to use The option to share with the public Records voice overs Easy to embed  Con - no automatic save (learnt this the hard way!!) found it did take some time to load (maybe this was due to my internet?) your device must support flash player  it can sometimes seem cluttered  the cost of a business account in high!! Powtoon was surprisingly easy and simple to use.  There are lots of cool features on this.  For instance, you get to choose when your text or images appear on the slide via the timeline feature.  You can bring your information in to the slide from all different directions.  ...

👍👍                                  Swipe-to Pro - Present to anyone, anywhere and on any device  Interact with the audience Flexible with the file types  No limit on file size Add videos by just pasting the link Con - Was difficult to find any cons about swipe to, think this was due to new swipe mobile phone! No chat features No customizable animations for slides No support for skydrive, evernote or google drive.                                When I first went on to use Swipe, It did look a bit awkward with all the writing on left hand side but straight away it was evident that swipe was really easy to use.  And quick...

👍                           NearPod Pro - Lots of interaction with the audience Reporting of performance (in class) It' Free  Con - Time consuming Only one template to use Does reduce eye contact with audience Very dependant of a good internet connection  I really like Nearpod.  I think it's a really cool and creative way of teaching!  and learning.  The interactive activities that are available on NearPod are very good and it is a good way to make a class fun and interesting.

👌                        Prezi       Pro -   Online and offline zooming presentation Flexibility in creating slides Prezi can go through different directions It has better integrations of multi media Con -   Wonder if the animations could be distracting to the audience Limited fonts and colours Time consuming to master Monthly cost to subscribe to all services Time consuming to export prezi When I first looked at prezi it was completely different to the other two and a little daunting as I am not really clued up on computers at all.   When I first tried to use it and start my presentation from scratch, it was a  nightmare because I couldn't really get my head around it.  The good thing about Prezi though, was that it had it's own templates that you could use whi...

👌                             Google Slides   Pro - It is already set up with my google site It is easy to share with other people if you are working in a group Simple, easy to understand directions It is saved in the cloud, so you can access it from anywhere You can easily upload youtube videos Con - If you don't have internet, you are out of luck There isn't as many flashy pictures and pretty slides Google slides was a nice an easy way of doing a presentation. It is similar to power-point, as in it is a very basic slide show, only it is more updated and more web based which is definitely a plus.  The fact that you can log in to google slides from anywhere makes googles slides a very handy tool to use. What I enjoyed about the google slide presentation was that I ...

👎                                PowerPoint      Pros - Keeps the presenter organised  Presents material in a legible neat fashion Students can print out slides ahead of time and make notes next to each slide during a lecture Cons - Important points and information often reduced to bullet points Presenter sometimes just reads from the slides and has little interaction The watchers attention is on the slides rather than the presenter  Little opportunity for intellectual digression as slides are presented in sequence I found Power-point to be a very basic and straight forward way of doing presentations.  Power-point allows the presenter to create simple slides to get their point across in a quick and efficient manner. However, having been to...