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| Haiku Deck |
Grade Levels: 4th Grade & up
Subjects: any!
Purpose & Features: Haiku Deck is a free app (pay up for the Pro version with more features) that is much more straightforward and elegant than standard presentation apps. There are a few big differences that sets Haiku Deck apart from apps like Google Slides and PowerPoint. First, students are limited in the amount of text that they can include on a slide. Yes, that means that your students might have to summarize the most important points and put those in their presentation - a great presentation skill to learn early! Also, students only have a choice of so many layout options so that they don't spend all of one class creating rainbow-titles or deliberating over fonts (yes, we've all been there). Last, students can search for images directly in the app which means that they don't have to get lost in the land of Google Image Search! Hooray! Haiku Deck searches a plentiful database of millions of free Creative Commons images and students directly add images to their slides. Students can also add images from their Photo Library if they choose.
Project Ideas: Any project that requires a presentation! But also... vocabulary study cards, "how to" tutorials, plot maps, illustrations of processes, summary of concepts learned in a unit or chapter, etc.
Check out this quick Haiku Deck project I did with my 6th and 8th grade Language students - their assignment was to create a slide for each common prefix we had learned. Some students were able to create a slide deck of 12 or so slides in about 20 minutes!
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