Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Top 10 Sites for Creating Slide Shows

Slide shows are one of the most popular ways to integrate technology into education. No longer is it necessary for a person to have a program such as iPhoto or Power Point to create such a thing. Now there are a number of free online sites that lets users create amazing looking slide shows.

Below is my list of some of my favorite sites for doing just that...

Top 10 Sites for Creating Slide Shows
  1. Kizoa - Creates beautiful looking slide shows, w/ a variety of music, effects, transitions to choose from.
  2. Shwup - Great site for creating private collaborative slide shows w/ a number of admin features, such as the ability to allow comments.
  3. Photo Peach - Very unique site that allows users to create quizzes in their slide show through multiple choice questions.
  4. Animoto - One of the most popular sites around w/ an educational instance - nuff said.
  5. Slideroll - A very nice site site that allows the user to make private or allow comments.
  6. Flixtime - Easy to use site where a user uploads photos and selects audio and transitions and then gets a code to embed into their site.
  7. One True Media - Great site to create animated slide shows w/ video.
  8. PhotoSnack - Very user friendly site w/ a drag & drop interface.
  9. Pho.to - Create flash based slide shows and get an embed code to put it on a site.
  10. Vuvox - An excellent site for creating beautiful looking multimedia slide shows.

3 comments:

  1. Hi David,

    Thank you for sharing all the resources as always. I recently found a website that I think it might be useful to you and all other educators. It is called "Education Eye." Don't know if you have seen it before or not, but you can give it a try over here if you have not. http://www.educationeye.org.uk/

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  2. Thanks so much Rei what an interesting site!!

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  3. Thanks Rei, all of my friends are using Stupeflix (www.stupeflix.com) to make their slideshows. Maybe worth a try. Keep up the good work!

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