Hi, guys so I’m sharing another website presentation maker I really enjoy Story Maps. So we have access to this website through the University of Michigan and you can set up a free account for non-commercial use meaning its easy to use for classroom settings. Story maps are a multimedia form of presentation that typically takes the form of a website presentation you click through or scroll through. There’s a variety of ways these presentations can take shape with some of them merely presenting information and others implementing maps in a creative way to give scale to their topics.
For example, this Storymap (Link 4) is from Seven Wonders: The Ancient List which depicts 7 ancient world wonders with an image on the right, the location in the Upper left corner, and a short Biography of said wonder in the bottom left. The map in the Upper left is interactive and can be used to see where the wonders were located and move to that one in the presentation
Along with showing a sense of scale and location, it can be used in a more typical presentation as shown in the Behind the Barbed Wire Maps (Link 3), which is all about the Newspaper and Japanese Interment in the mid 20th century and features various places for you to jump in the presentation with a taskbar on the top with each subsection focusing on a different aspect of interment. These are a pretty decent way to have an online-only assignment instead of having a student submit a PowerPoint and paper having them plot their presentation and write a short reflection or even Flipgram style video and embed it in the presentation or have them React to one they found online or from a list you as a teacher curated.
https://collections.storymaps.esri.com/humanities/ (Collection of Story maps)
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/wonders-ancient/
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