[NOTE: An easier to print version of the tutorial can be found here. ]
Our iPad Mentor teachers really like using the Keynote app for student presentations. It is easy to use and makes visually pleasing presentations. Unfortunately, if they want students to move the presentations from the iPad onto the student blogs there is not a good workflow.
One option is to export from Keynote as a PDF, then pull it into the Explain Everything app. That works well when students want to record the narration that goes with the presentation. Transitions are lost in this method, and if the students don’t want to record anything this method doesn’t work. They can’t export out of Explain Everything unless each slide has been recorded on.
I am liking our new workflow much better. It uses the Haiku Deck app which is free, easy to use, and has fabulous images available from within the app. We can use the free Blogger app to get iFrame code into Blogger. I have detailed the steps below.
Presentations: From iPad to Blog
This tutorial explains the smoothest workflow we have found for students to create presentations on their ipad and then save them to their blog. It only requires the use of free apps.
Students create their presentation in the Haiku Deck app. The app is easy to use and has its own collection of pictures so students can quickly create attractive presentations. Students publish to their blog using the Blogger app or by logging in on the web browser.
(Note: Haiku Deck is not a good option if each presentation slide needs to have many lines of text. The text will become too small for the audience to read it.)
Getting Ready
Before you can create presentations with your students, please complete the following tasks.
- Install the Haiku Deck app on the iPads
- Create a free class account on the Haiku Deck website: http://www.haikudeck.com/ Make certain to set it up using your class account (e.g. i108@sas.edu.sg).
- In the Haiku Deck app tap the ? in the bottom right corner. Look at The Basics and Tutorial.
- Create a presentation using Haiku Deck so you understand it well enough to answer student questions.
In Haiku Deck with Students on the iPad
- Click the Sign In button. Enter your class account username and password. Save. This should only need to be done the first time you use the app.
- Click the + sign at the bottom of the screen to create a new presentation. Then tap edit to start working on the slide.
- If students do not finish in one class period, have them tap the MAIN MENU button in the top left corner to leave the presentation.
- When a presentation is finished, tap the Save and Share arrow in the top right corner of the screen. You may need to tap once on the screen to make that arrow appear.
- In the Save and Share window, set the privacy level to PUBLIC. You must select a category before you can press the Publish button. You may want to instruct students to make their first name be part of the title.
- When you press Publish your presenation will save to the Haiku Deck website.
When the presentation is done upload, another Save and Share window will open. Tap the Post to Blog button.
Copy the embed code starting with <iframe src and ending with </iframe> . If they leave off any part of the code, it will not embed into their blog.
Embed in Blog
Open the Blogger app on the iPad.
Tap the View Blog button at the top of the screen.
Tap the Sign In button at the top of the screen.
Have students sign into their Blogger account.
Create a new Blogger post.
- Tap the HTML button.
- Paste the embed code after the </div> tag.
- Press the Compose button. You should be able to see the presentation in the post.
1. Add the post title.
2. Add the class label.
3. Press Publish.
