Padlet is a tool creates the opportunity for students to collaborate and share ideas in a very simple, efficient manner. It has the capability of embedding many different forms of media, both user created or created by someone else (ie. YouTube Video).
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Emaze is an online platform for creating engaging presentations featuring a collaborative component where multiple users can work together to build a presentation together, an autoplay feature with audio recording capabilities, as well as the capability of embedding many other forms of content into created products. Also, previously created PowerPoints can be uploaded to the app and converted to a 3D presentation. It goes the other way too as Emaze presentations can be exported to .pptx files (PowerPoint format) for use on conventional computers offline.
The example above uses the Emaze online presentation app done in World History during our study of the Scientific Revolution. Emaze creates animated, 3D professional looking presentations and offers a large number of editable templates with all the features of Google Slides and more. See the screenshot for the assignment given to students. My reasoning for selecting this tool for students to use centered around the features it offers, its engaging format, and the ability to manipulate their templates with minor changes so students spend most of their time immersed in content and less with graphic design.
The presentation above was used in Economics class during our study of the structures within the labor market. I was able to manipulate the templates to fit how the content needed to be presented, as well as embed a YouTube video by CNN explaining the concept of collective bargaining. Each slide could have its own audio recording presenting the info, as this is a fairly new feature to this tool.
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