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Get Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Finally, you can have PowerPoint on your iPad, and it is free. Go for it! 
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In January I was one of the Apple Distinguished Educators who got to talk at the Apple Leadership Summit. Below you can see my presentation. For more information check http://ipa...
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Teachers, check out this interesting slideshow by Suzanne Lustenhouwer about how to turn a boring book report into an exciting presentation using different iPad apps. Thanks to Suzanne for the suggestion.
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Presentics is an iPad app developed by Pagico Software, Inc. If you are looking for an iPad-based tool for developing presentations, this is definitely an app you should check out!
Baiba Svenca's insight:
If you have not tried the new iPad app Presentics yet, here is a review of the app that may help you see why it has been rated 9.2 out of 10.
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Get deck - one-touch presentations on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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The creators of Deck which is a browser tool for creating presentations have recently released an iPad/ iPhone app. It lets you put together your content, choose a presentation theme and bring your content to life without effort. You can sync your Deck presentations across all your devices.
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The art of comic creation is one of the best representation of creativity at work. As teachers and educators, we can use the power and versatility of iPad to cultivate a creative culture within our classes and among our students through helping them tinker with and design comics. Here is a list of some great iPad apps you can use for this purpose...
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Thanks to Alfredo Corell for suggesting this useful post listing some great apps for creating comics.
Ruby Rennie Panter's curator insight,
May 30, 2015 4:41 AM
Creating comic strips can be a useful way to combine creativity, narrative and multimodal writing. More importantly - it's fun!
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Record, edit and publish videos right from your mobile device. We provide powerful yet simple editing tools like rearranging and trimming clips — everything you need for that perfect video. MixBit is brought to you by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube. We created YouTube to give you a way to share videos, and now we want to help you create videos, together.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
MixBit is a free app for mobile devices that lets you create videos by recording, editing and mixing clips. The app allows you to collaborate with other users and create videos that are up to an hour long.
Lara N. Madden's curator insight,
October 24, 2013 1:43 PM
We were just talking about an app like this... @uaaftc #iteachak 
Mary Cunningham's curator insight,
October 27, 2013 10:11 PM
Create and collaborate on videos up to an hour long ...
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Total Recall is the simple and elegant solution to mind mapping on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. You will instantly create beautiful mind maps and share them with colleagues and friends.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Check out this app for creating mind maps on your iOS devices. The app is free so it is suitable for students.
LucaVanin's curator insight,
September 6, 2013 8:08 AM
Mai provato ma da sperimentare: la MindMap è un validissimo strumento per i WebMeeting in cui vogliamo fare collaborare tra loro molte persone. La testeremo e vedremo se ha una marcia in più rispetto alle altre! 
Brandi McWilliams's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 11:48 PM
I love this app. I have been using @Total Recall for two years, one of my fav #mindmapapps.
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Inspiration Maps is an iPad app that allows you to visually organize information. Inspiration Maps makes it easy to create clear mind maps that can help organize information for an essay or walk a student through a multi-step science experiment. The app comes with number of great looking templates for all different subject areas. If none of the templates meet your needs you can create your own.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
If you use iPad, Inspiration app will be useful for creating mind maps and organizing your information visually. You can save your mind maps in Dropbox or export as PDF or PNG.
Profa. Ann Rivera #Morreducation's curator insight,
August 25, 2013 11:07 AM
La app Inspiration Maps es gratis y es una herramienta para la enseñanza de conceptos en la educación @morreducation 
Jim Lerman's curator insight,
September 12, 2013 1:44 AM
Many may recall Inspiratiion as one of the first great mind-mapping tools, available for a long time only as software. Here is an online iPad app version.
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PublishME enables you to create, edit, and share vibrant presentations. Upload existing presentations, PDFs, Word or Excel documents or create a new presentation from scratch, using the canvas.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
A new free app for iPad that lets you create presentations by uploading documents, adding text, audio, video or images, then sharing your presentation or collaborating on it. Watch the video tutorial to learn more.
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Vivapitch lets conference audiences view and interact with the presentation slides, in real-time, on their mobile devices. Users can currently: Save the presentation, leave notes alongside important slides, share slides directly with your Twitter network.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
While listening to the presenter's speech, the audience can interact by annotating, sharing, tweeting, saving the presentation in real time. To engage your audience, all you need is to download a free Presenter app for PowerPoint. Vivapitch currently works on Android platform only.
LucaVanin's curator insight,
June 4, 2013 6:16 PM
Da provare assolutamente: permette ai partecipanti di aggiungere note e interagire con le presentazioni! :-)
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We’ve all endured “death by PowerPoint.” It’s a painful experience for the audience and probably not all that fun for the presenter either. To help my students deliver effective presentations—free of those deadly bullet points—I have my go-to applications.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
In this post Richard Byrne gives his suggestions about PowerPoint alternatives which you may use if you are already "dead" by PowerPoint. The tools include both browser and mobile applications. Valuable ideas!
SlideHunter's comment,
June 7, 2013 1:17 PM
Hi Baiba. We are aware about the campaigns anti PowerPoint and decided to be proactive and offer some nice diagrams for free download from our website, here is hte link http://slidehunter.com/powerpoint-templates/
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
June 23, 2013 11:42 AM
by Richard Byrne
his suggestions about PowerPoint alternatives (browser and mobile applications)
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From
stampsy
Stampsy is a sharing platform for people who produce compelling digital media content. Whether you're a photographer, an editor or an art school student, Stampsy is the place where your creative ideas are shaped into beautiful digital experiences. We call them Stamps and they're a completely new online format for framing your talent and sharing content on the web. At a time of rapidly increasing opportunities for storytelling and visual expression, Stampsy is the place where digital content comes to life.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Stampsy is a new iPad app for creating digital content. The steps are easy to follow - add images and text to your page using drag-and-drop method. Change colours or fonts, and design the page as you like. The result you'll get is a linear presentation with great visual potential, perfect for storytelling purposes. There is a small inconvenience though - you will need a Facebook account to use the application. The app is free. Download it here https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stampsy/id582398120?mt=8
ghbrett's curator insight,
May 8, 2013 9:32 AM
Stampsy is an interesting graphic tool currently for the iPad. It has a few necessry tools such as Headline, Text, Images, Colour Palette, Various Fonts, and best of all it is limited to 10 pages. If Powerpoints were limited to 10 pages I wonder how much real information would be lost? No doubt we'd see the important information. Check it out.
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Now, upload PowerPoint presentations from within Facebook! Yes, you read it right. authorSTREAM has brought PowerPoint right into the heart, nope, right into the Wall of Facebook with its new, improved app!
Baiba Svenca's insight:
You can now upload and post your presentations on your Facebook wall. You just have to use Facebook app from authorStream which you can get on Facebook (follow the link in the post).
IMA-EDU.GR's curator insight,
April 24, 2013 2:39 PM
Από blog.authorstream.com - Σήμερα, 16:02 Τώρα, ανεβάστε τις παρουσιάσεις του PowerPoint μέσα από το Facebook!Ναι, διαβάσατε σωστά.authorSTREAM έφερε PowerPoint ακριβώς στην καρδιά, Όχι, ακριβώς το Τείχος του Facebook με νέα, βελτιωμένη εφαρμογή της! Δεν θα είναι άδικο να λένε ότι είμαστε η μόνη πλατφόρμα επί του παρόντος, που σας επιτρέπει να παίξετε κινουμένων σχεδίων, παρουσιάσεις πολυμέσων σας στο Facebook. 
Steve Vaitl's curator insight,
April 28, 2013 10:43 AM
I don't use FB for class but this would make for a great presentation of vacations or experiment photo presentation for others! Just a thought. |
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Finally, the new BeamAir has arrived in the App Store. From the first version, we shifted focus a bit more towards presentations as there are plenty of photo sharing Apps anyway, but presentations ...
Baiba Svenca's insight:
BeamAir app for iOS enables you to share your presentations or just images with remote viewers. In addition, you can draw on your slides in real time, snap and send an instant photo. The images are available only as long as your session lasts, afterwards they are deleted from the servers. The link to the app https://itunes.apple.com/app/beamair/id602259575?mt=8
Bouchut's curator insight,
February 14, 2014 5:32 AM
Une réponse sur les présentations sur IPAD ou Iphone
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Presentation software that will make your presentations shine. Slide Pocket helps you create presentations, making every single step easier!
Baiba Svenca's insight:
SlidePocket is an app that gives you one more option for creating presentations on your iPad. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to work with SlidePocket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ceUL6tx0A The app is free, so it is suitable for using in schools.
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Create minimalist, multimedia, touch-enabled presentations in just minutes. Presentics is a brand-new approach to presentations. It takes advantage of the multitouch interface and provide full support for embedding media via the internet. Compared to conventional presentation software, Presentics is special in the following areas:...
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Presentics is a promising new app for iOS which lets you create multimedia presentations. Basic version is free but it has limitations.
Link to the app on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/presentics-minimalist-multimedia/id746422887?mt=8
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
January 12, 2014 4:16 PM
Following on from such groundbreaking apps as Haiku Deck, Presentics allows you to add video and to draw on the presentation, whiteboard style, as you present. The free version allows only two presentations then you need to pay $9.99 AU should you want to continue using it.
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Microsoft has just unveiled Office Remote, a new app that lets users control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with any Windows Phone 8 device. It's basically SmartGlass for the company's...
Baiba Svenca's insight:
You can use the new Office Remote application on condition that you have a Windows Phone 8 and a PC with Bluetooth, and if you do, you can enjoy the process of controlling your presentations remotely.
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Perspective is a platform for exploring, creating, and sharing audiovisual stories. Today's storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies all this by combining the essential elements of storytelling into a single iPad App.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
A free app for iPad and iPhone to create multimedia presentations and stories containing your data. Perspective allows you to make live presentations directly to as many as 10 iPads.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
November 2, 2013 2:07 PM
STORYTELLING free app for iPad and iPhone users.
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The software, which lets iPad users create video presentations, is in testing -- but only to those who agree to an Adobe confidentiality agreement. Read this article by Stephen Shankland on CNET News.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
iPad users may cheer, they have another video presentation app on its way. Created by Adobe Systems, Ginger is now in beta and being tested by invitees. The link to Ginger page http://www.getginger.co/
Carmenne Kalyaniwala's curator insight,
October 4, 2013 3:10 AM
I've signed up to be notified when Ginger opens its gates to us, common people. Have you?
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BaiBoard enables users to collaborate via integrated online whiteboard, PDF annotation and VoIP solutions across the Internet from iPad and Mac
Baiba Svenca's insight:
I simply could not help scooping the BaiBoard app (sentiment towards the name of the tool) but I also see it as a perfect tool for real-time presentation of collaborative work done by a group of students. The app offers you a zoomable multi-page whiteboard and lets you collaborate even on PDF documents. And it is free!
Pearletta Wilson's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 11:57 AM
Looks interesting - just wonder if it will be useful for our sessions. I'll need to think of a suitable purpose before I suggest it as an app for our ipads.
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Flowboard 1.2 new features include YouTube Integration, PDF support, video compression, speed & performance boosts, and new creator tools like undo & redo.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
For those who use Flowboard, a great iPad app for presentations and storytelling, there are new features added to the latest release. The post gives detailed instructions how to work with the app.
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Different from other presentation apps, 30hands Mobile focuses on the power of storytelling. Like pages in a book, photos or images are dragged around the desktop into the order of the story. Next, the teacher or student records audio over each image. Finally, the story or presentation can be published to the device’s photo area or uploaded to a 30hands collaborative learning site.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
A great app for iPad and iPhone that lets you create stories or presentations consisting of images enhanced with voice recordings. The developers suggest this app can be used in flipped classrooms for producing "synchronized slide + audio lectures".
designandtech's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 10:25 AM
Very easy to use with elementary grade students. 
Samantha Ellis's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 7:23 PM
This is fabulous, Could be a valuable source for all levels of learners, easy to use and could help establish new ideas.
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Flowboard is a storytelling and presentation app that allows creating side-scrolling publications with the help of photos, videos, text and photo galleries. Whether you are looking to tell your story in the form of your personal photo collection, wish to share ideas or require creating and presenting a presentation right from your iPad, Flowboard can help you get the job done without requiring the use of PowerPoint or Keynote.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
I have scooped Flowboard before but I thought you may like to read this article about creating presentations on your iPad (iOS 6 or higher) where you will find some great tips for working with Flowboard. The app is free of charge.
Lucia Keijzer's curator insight,
June 10, 2013 3:00 AM
This may be a fantastic way to get students into tale-telling.
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Mind mapping is a method that works for quite a lot of people. Brain storming, idea mapping, thought generation, think tanks – call it what you will. Traditionally done on large pieces of paper, why not use your iPad to create mind maps? You could use these for your own purposes, or “convert” those large flip charts into a smaller, digital version.
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Those who own and use iPad should read this comprehensive guide to 11 mind mapping apps. There is a short summary and an in-depth review of each application. Most apps are free to download.
John McDermott Neill's curator insight,
May 25, 2013 2:03 PM
Some interesting apps included in this list. All I need now are some ideas!
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Fotopedia Reporter is here! Our newest app unleashes your creativity, letting you create your own photo stories to share the things you love with whoever you want. Whether it's a tour of your town, some hard-hitting reportage, a restaurant review or a story about snails mating at the bottom of your garden, the only limit is your imagination. If you care about something, let it show!
Baiba Svenca's insight:
Fotopedia Reporter is a brand new app for creating photo stories. You can also create and share your personal magazine. The app works in 10 languages. And it is free! Reporter is also available on the web http://www.fotopedia.com/reporter/home/me The featured photo stories are truly inspiring and fabulous.
En Français - Alix Creuzé's comment,
August 9, 2013 8:09 AM
Thanks for the tip! s someone using it? I find it quite complicated to use with a class (photopedia reporter).
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To test for "classroom" course/workshop.
amen...
Finally! Try it!