Powtoon as PPT alternative

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PowToon

what is Powtoon. http://www.powtoon.com/?edgetrackerid=1407528290497

PowToon is Web-based animation software that allows users to create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs.[4] Powtoon uses an Adobe Flex engine to generate an XML file that can be played in the Powtoon online viewer, exported to YouTube or downloaded as an MP4 file.[2]

  1. Videomaker, Presentation tool, storytelling tool.
  2. templates versus starting from scratch
  3. having a plan (or a story, or a screenplay)
  4. narrate with voice over your video. can’t edit recording, but can re-record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowToon

Why Powtoon.

Powtoon, like
Prezi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as9po3WbOhI&list=PL09A34EF19596B7BB),
ThingLink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRkdIdbqHig)
Haiku Deck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crVTsJk9QE)
is one of the many cloud-based applications, which effectively can substitute PowerPoint. Here is an entry from this same blog, which list a generous choice of similar applications:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/08/27/presentation-tools-for-teaching/

Before you start working on PowToon, please consider the following guidelines for a good presentation design:

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/10/13/presentation-design/

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/19/presentation-design-rules/

Here are some tutorials, which you might consider:

How to use PowToon

Powtoon Tutorial – Creating Your First Powtoon

Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
Professor
320-308-3072
pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/

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