Finding and Using Images in your Classroom, Publications, & Presentations: Presentation & Tech Tools

• Directions for exporting to powerpoint from ARTstor
• Present online and tips for side by side comparisons
• ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV)

• Apple iWork Keynote

• Microsoft Office - Powerpoint   Makes slide shows with embedded media. Discounted copies are available for sale at the University Bookstore for students, faculty, and staff

• OIV (ARTstor) - Offline Image Viewer available from ARTstor

• Pico Projectors - tiny portable projectors you can carry with you to present!

Some of these may be totally free but some just give you a free trial.

·           Ispiring free – Powerpoint to flash converter

Slideshare - post your slideshows and share

Animation Tools

• Common Craft
• Go Animate
• Xtranormal

Comic Strip Creators:      

• Comic Life

Timeline tools

• Timetoast

These are open source or free presentation or visual tools. Most require you to register and some are available for free for a trial period

• Artsy Education-

• FreeMind- mind mapping software

• Glogster - create multimedia "posters"

• Google Books Ngram Viewer - When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. 

• Google Drawings - make flow charts, diagrams, callouts...

• Google Presentation now part of Google Drive - must have Google account

• History Pin - digital time machine that creates a new way for the world to see and share history.

• Omeka - website builder for online exhibitions or other scholars, museums, gallery, or library collections.

• Open office.org Impress

• Pictify

• Pinterest- create pin boards of images that link to sites

• Prezi- create zooming presentations

• SlideTalk - upload slide shows and turn them into video

• Visual.ly- create infographics

• Wordle - create word clouds

• High quality, good resolution images -  for enlarging or zooming if neeeded
• Show as large as possible, with captions that have information for image (for artworks artist, title, date, location if applicable, media and size if available)
• Captions should be near 18 pt
• Clean font that is easy to read, usually a sans serif font if best
  
• Simple backgrounds such as white, black, or gray so they do not clash with colors of the artwork
• Professional, well proofed and edited slides that appeal to the eye
  
• Know your audience
• Be "present" at your own presentation!