Posted April 15, 2017 by Nick LaFave
Create Infographics and Presentations Like a Pro with Visme Visme.co Visme is a powerful tool to help you create stunning infographics and presentations. Most tools in this category are either easy to use but lacking in quality, or of professional quality with a steep learning curve. Visme is in a category of its own with professional-quality tools… Read more
Posted November 15, 2015 by Nick LaFave
PowToon PowToon.com Powtoon is a great animation creator for teachers and students to make engaging presentations. It’s a great way to take your instructional presentations up a notch, or a perfect tool for giving students yet another way to creatively demonstrate understanding. The ability to make engaging, professional-looking, animated videos with a simple drag and… Read more
Posted April 1, 2015 by Nick LaFave
emaze www.emaze.com Death by PowerPoint is one of the greatest fears of today’s students. While so many of my instructional materials were made in PowerPoint, I am making every effort to move completely away from it. I’m a big fan of Prezi and will continue to use it, but I recently came across something… Read more
Posted June 30, 2014 by Nick LaFave
Twitter in the Classroom: Engage Your Screenagers in 140 Characters or Less ISTE 2014 Twitter in the Classroom Poster – ISTE 2014 (Click to Enlarge) New to Twitter? Start here: How to Use Twitter – A great guide for the absolute beginner. Howcast: How to use Twitter (video) – A screencast of all the basics… Read more
Posted June 20, 2014 by Nick LaFave
Please check out my professional development sessions this summer. I’ll be presenting 5 sessions at SC Education and Business Summit and a poster session at ISTE. Attendees of my sessions will be entered to win some great technology tools from IPEVO! South Carolina Education and Business Summit Creating Videos for the Flipped Classroom Sunday, June… Read more
Posted April 4, 2014 by Nick LaFave
Improve Public Speaking Skills – Assign a Pecha Kucha Presentation Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that allows the speaker 20 slides presented for 20 seconds each. The slides automatically advance every 20 seconds for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. You can click here to learn more. It’s a great format for improving… Read more