Just tried Slideguru to generate a PPT from a prompt topic.
the prompt topic: Some Ways to use AI-generated images in the teaching of English
Response: https://poe.com/s/ePEr9gajkROuOwPG0RP3
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Unlike Canva which gives you slides which are actually paragraphs, Slideguru gives you a number of slides (about 10) with bullet points. This is more like a conventional PPT.
Of course, it doesn't actually give you a PPT file; you still have to import the outline into a PPT.
In a TP lesson observation today, the teacher used a road map at the beginning of the lesson to give Ss an overview of the lesson. Then at different points of the lesson, she showed the road map again so students could see their progress. She showed the road map again at the end of the lesson as a recap of the journey that the students had completed.
After the lesson, I asked her the source of the road map. She said 'Canva', which I had totally forgotten about!
I immediately went to Canva, and searched for 'road map.' There were dozens of results:
Of course, the road map can be further enhanced with Thinglink and Genial.ly.
Will look for an opportunity to use one of these road maps in my teaching.
Step 1: Prepare the Outline in a WORD DOCUMENT in Outline format (in View tab)
Step 2: Open Eddrawmind Desktop app.
Step 3: Click on Create on left pane:
Step 4: Click IMPORT
Just found this web app which is very easy to use, for creating graphic organizers. And it's always free, unlike Lucidchart and Miro.
Just found a solution to presenting a PPT in a window instead of in full screen mode:
When presenting, just resize the PPT Window. You can then still see the tabs on the opened browser. To switch between the PPT presentation and the browser, press Alt+Tab.
It looks like now that Bookwidgets is the only interactive app (similar ones are Wordwall, Learningapps.org) that allow students to respond to a task/question by recording their own voice.
Wordwall and Learningapps.org have the 'Text to Speech' function for converting words inserted into audio's. However, you can't record your own voice.
My own view is that speech samples created are not really that good, especially when very careful listening for discriminating between speech sounds is concerned.
Bookwidgets, on the other hand, is the opposite. It doesn't have the 'text to speech' function. But you can record you own voice as input. All the widget formats allow you to do that.
