I chose to explore Genially, Haiku Deck and emzae for this week’s blog. 

Genially: Before being able to explore what the site has to offer one must sign up/create an account. I signed up as an educator and decided to explore the gamify category first, but quickly realized that a paid subscription was needed to use this feature of the website. After this, I went back to the ‘regular’ presentation category. I like the templates that are provided and the website seems user friendly enough. As a big Canva fan, this website’s format reminds me of it a lot. Although it was not free I would be interested in learning more about the gamify feature, that is something that I really like to use with my students and it would be cool to create my own games. I ended up using this to create my short presentation and liked the site more and more as I went. Teachers can add passwords and other interactivity which would be cool for creating things like escape rooms. Here is the link to my creation: https://view.genial.ly/60eb9eb7add8d70d2f23fe9a/presentation-history-presentation-iii

Haiku Deck: This website is a little tricker to find the basic or free version. Once you do however, you can create three ‘decks’ for free and after that you would need to upgrade your membership. Nothing about this site was particularly amazing and I would not recommend it to other educators for the price. 

Emaze: After exploring the other two websites I was expecting more of the same thing. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find something different on this site. Despite this the format is not as clean and crisp as what I’m used to on sites like Canva, Google Slides, Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint. However the templates are fun, I just think that the format would take some getting used to. Also, many of the templates that I did like were premium so I was not able to use the. 

Since it seems that so many advanced presentations sites require subscriptions, I would encourage other educators to find their favorite and stick with it. Many of them do the same things with different formats and subscription costs would add up quickly if someone subscribed to all of them.