Software tools for presentations Presentation software • is a desktop- or cloud-based application that allows the user to present information to an audience using a sequence of multimedia formats, such as images, video, audio and text • the visual presentation can be used to accompany a live talk or speech or as a standalone slide deck A lot … • PowerPoint • Slideshare • Kineticast • Video Movie Maker • SoftwareInsider • Google Slides • Beatiful.AI • Knowledge Vision • Canva • Panopto • Prezi • Microsoft Sway • GoAnimate • VisualBee • FlowVella • Keynote • Adobe Spark • Wink • Projeqt • SlideBureau • LibreOffice Impress • Adobe InDesign • SnagIt • Crushbase • WPS Presentation • SlideDog • Swipe • Camtasia • Articulate Presenter • Genial.ly • Slidebean • Deckset • Camstudio • Preseria • NCH Software • SlideShark • Visme • CustomShow • OnlyOffice Present. • … • SlideSnack • Haiku Deck • Zoho Show • Reallusion • … • SlideRocket • PowToon • Focusky • DocketZoom • … • Slides • 280 Slides • Ludus • Emaze • … What Google trends says about… Beyond Powerpoint (or beyond 20 century?) • Real-time collaboration • Import/Export abilities • Creative design tools • Online sharing • Mobile editing • Template availability • Audio • Animation Special features (1/4) • Cloud-based tools, no costs and a variety • Analytic tools to know the details about how the of formatting tools and special effects (e.g. presentation was seen (e.g. FlowVela) Google slides) • Build a slide library to share with the team (e.g. • Visually move featured images (e.g. Apple’s CustomShow) Keynote) • See who is viewing the presentation and how • Non-linear presentations for less formal, engaged they are (e.g. Slidebean) conversational presentations (e.g. Prezi) • Use thousands of images licensed under Creative • Publish to the web (e.g. Zoho Show) Commons (e.g. Haiku Deck) • Focus on interactivity to create visual • Include pop-ups and other types of visual content media (e.g. Genial.ly) (e.g. Visme) Special features (2/4) • Suggest ways to visualize the ideas using • Export to SlideShare (e.g. 280 Slides) AI (e.g. Beautiful.ai) • Integrate content from sites like Flickr or • Include 3D models (e.g. Ludus or Emaze) Youtube (e.g. SlideRocket) • Integration with online services like Vimeo • Easy to customize the templates (e.g. (e.g. Slides) Slides or Canva) • Tools to add shapes (e.g. Adobe InDesign) • No font limitation (e.g. Libre Office Impress) • HTML5 presentations (e.g. Focusky) • Social media image editor (e.g. Visme) • Create animated stories for presentations, voiceovers, integrate with animated • Customizable content blocks (e.g. characters (Powtoon) Slidebean) Special features (3/4) • Create animated presentations in video • Email presentation to the list of contacts format (e.g. GoAnimate or Adobe Spark) and track the results (e.g. Kineticast) • Built-in broadcasting tools to stream • Dedicated to tutorials with screenshots, presentations (e.g. Zoho Show) explanations boxes, buttons, titles (e.g. Wink) • Turn notes into presentations (e.g. Microsoft Sway) • Presentations for customer support with videos of on-screen activities (e.g. • Turn PDFs, videos, images, text outline Camtasia or Camstudio) into a presentation (e.g. Swipe) • Weave together stories with style and • Use text commands to arrange items (e.g. personality from flickr photos, RSS feeds, Deckset) tweets, Vimeo videos (e.g. Projeqt) Special features (4/4) • Create animated figures for presentation • Combine materials from many sources like and add animated avatars and comic prezi, ppts, pdf,s xls, video, images, web effects for other presentation tools (e.g. pages (e.g. SlideDog) Reallusion) • Leave comments to other users to review • In-built-analytics for understanding user (e.g. WPS Presentation) insights (e.g. Docketzoom) • Sharing and tracking views and • Interactive publications that are annotations on slides (e.g. Slideshark) personalized (e.g. Instant Magazine) • For presentations in conference – system • Tools to manage live stream, record, and to organize them (e.g. Presaria) share videos across your organization (e.g. Panopto) • Quizzing (e.g. Articulate Presenter) Back to main question – thesis presentation • Not: • What (new) features are useful? • A collaborative work • Tools for transforming notes, pdfs etc in slides • Including videos, usually • Create own templates • Tracking the readers • On-line storage • Should be: • … ? • Focused on ideas • ….? • Simple Key types of presentation skills • Create variety to ensure that the audience remains engaged • Maintain an auditable tone throughout the presentation • Maintain eye contact with the audience • Work with confidence • Communicate complex information in a simple way [Recap also the 1st semester discussion on the presentation content].