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Welcome to EdTech Tuesday. I'm Rich Dixon. And I'm Jennifer Gibson. Today we're going
to take a look at an app called Haiku, and Jennifer, tell us a little bit about its price.
Haiku Deck is the official name of the app, and it's a free app. So it uses a lot of open-source
resources. Let's dive right in. Haiku Deck allows you to create presentations using images
that are open-source. What I want to do is bring up their sample, and basically right
now you can see Haiku Deck telling stories, and it's a way to create presentations with
visuals. You can use your own pictures and you can also use the open-source pictures.
Right here is an open source. For example, you can pitch an idea. A student could use
this to talk about something. Great for persuasive presentations within the Common Core. And
then Enliven a meeting, so they could even have meetings, like town hall meetings, and
different things like that. A class meeting, they could really enjoy doing that. Here's
Summarize a talk, and one of the things that Haiku Deck really promotes is "a picture is
worth a thousand words." So they have things like that. It can be used for a blog; you
can embed the haiku into a blog or website. I could also see some use for students where
blogs aren't in play, but they could still illustrate what they've been learning in a
classroom. Exactly, it's like a blog. A visual blog. This one, Send a message of thanks,
redemption, or congratulations. So, it's a way to send this off to someone that you know.
Share a story, and this one is Introduce yourself, so you could do a collage or montage about
each student at the beginning of the year using Haiku Deck. It's a way to be persuasive,
like you said, during a speech. Or maybe there's some side that you're going to take. There's
Teaching a lesson, and this one is Ignite a movement, so just encouraging. Haiku Deck
is a really interesting one. The way it works is you say I'm going to put together my haiku.
I'm just going to call this one My Story. It's real simple, you can type right in. I
was going to say, it looks really nice that you can add text within here. I like it because
I think it's very simple and very clean and a really beautiful presentation. One of the
things is you can tap to edit, where you can start typing in. We've looked at some other
apps that don't allow you to type text: this one does, so you have a number of different
things that you can do here. And you can add additional. I'll just put my name in here.
It kind of has these templates and formats that you follow. Then you can continue on,
and there's themes you can select. Some of the themes do cost, so there's in-app purchases.
We talked about an open source, and open source means the resources are available for anyone
to use. I can pick this as my background theme, and that one is free, but as I scroll along
the top, you can see the dollar signs in the right hand corner: those ones would cost some
money. Let's look at starship for example, if we wanted that one. That one is $1.99.
And there's theme packs that you can buy that go. Jennifer, what if I or students in the
classroom choose to take their own photo? Could they use a photo from, say, their camera
roll as a background? How would that work? It looks like we see Import here. I'm going
to tap that. And it looks like I've got My photos, or I can take a picture; that one's
certainly handy as well. So you can do that, you can bring that in. That's a great question.
You have the option, let's say a field trip that you're going to illustrate and talk about,
you can bring in all those photos from that trip. Or if you're starting on a presentation,
and let's say you can't find exactly what you're looking for, you can take the picture.
Can we choose one out of your photos? Sure, let's go ahead and do My photos. It asks for
permission, and you say OK. Why don't you pick one? Let's go inside here, and I'm going
to find one, let's say that we had taken this one - it looks like this is an image perhaps
from somewhere else - but let's say that we had taken that. I'm going to click on Add
image, now that background fits. Very nice, and it's customized just for you. So you can
go ahead and create as many slides as you want to talk about your story. And then when
it's time, just like we showed - I'm going to say Not now, I'm not going to save it - when
it's time, you can then click on the Haiku Deck and then play this. One thing I want
you to see here: let's say you've created your Haiku Deck, it does have the share icon,
so these are the options you have with share. You have save and share, so you give it a
title, you can make it public, private, restricted. Jennifer, I want to take a moment because
it's worth highlighting here that the private settings would be a really great way to protect
student privacy. As with any student work at all, whether there's images, or in this
case there are images, or not, we want to make sure that we protect that student's privacy
and student data. I would recommend - what would you do here in this situation? I've
got a couple ideas. It depends on the purpose of the slideshow. If it's me as a teacher,
I wouldn't mind sharing it with other teachers so they can collaborate. As far as the students,
I agree with private or restricted, restricted meaning they have a password to get on. This
is stored on the Haiku website, which is a partner to the app, so that you can go on
and then show it. It's stored in the cloud and then accessible through the website. It's
also, like you saw before, your Haiku Decks are on your iPad to use later. So we can see
here, you've given an event, you've published, and it's ready to go. It's a super wonderful
tool, again free but with in-app purchases. Any big pros or cons that we haven't already
touched upon? I think with this one as far as pros, there's the free, its being creative,
accessible for everyone, easy to learn. Text, we can type that, it's a very easy layout.
Cons would be that it has in-app purchases, I want to address that. But I think you can
work around all those things.