8th Grade: Presentation Tools

Create engaging graphics that visually represent your information, research, or report. Piktochart provides templates for students to use. Once you’ve chosen a format, you can type in your info and customize artwork to develop a fun, easy-to-read infographic on your topic.

If you like the look of infographics but want to animate them, Powtoon is for you. Powtoon provides slides like PowerPoint, but makes it a lot of fun to choose images, objects and characters come to life when you run the slide show.

VoiceThread is a platform that allows you to share your presentations in a brand new way. It's not presentation software on its own, but it adds a layer of interaction to the projects you have already made. Upload a photo, report, slideshow, video, or other presentation into VoiceThread for others to see and comment on. Once they've seen your work, students and teachers can add video comments and questions for a more personal interaction.

A nice windows app for creating presentations out of PowerPoint slides.

Create animated videos for presentations, projects, etc.

An easy platform for creating word clouds, an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.

This is a great format for users making projects focused on a single topic or idea. Glogster brings the poster into the twenty-first century by allowing you to add clip art, video, audio and images directly to the screen — all while keeping everything on one page for easy navigation.

Create beautiful presentations and poster-style graphics online.

A fun tool for creating fake text message screen shots to support your lesson, presentation, meme, or joke.

A modern creator/editor for memes, GIFs, images, and videos.