Keynote
Keynote is a presentation app developed to design and personalize a presentation. Keynote helps you create, edits, and give stunning presentations straight from your iPhone or iPad. It has smooth transitions, a sturdy layout, and easily adjustable settings. Make anything possible with keynote.
The layout of Keynote is smart, you can put awesome transitions, change to cool backgrounds, mess with the font, etc. Nonetheless, Keynote is cool because it has way more opportunities than Google Slides. It is more fun, easy and just better to use. All in all, I love Keynote and use it for everything.
Pros!
• All available features are very intuitive.
• This program includes animation, video and audio options.
• It works smoothly with iCloud.
• There are many beautiful themes available.
• The program is not expensive compared to similar ones.
• It has been built for iPad.
Cons
• There may be some problems with opening native documents of Keynote.
• The process of documents importing is a bit slow.
• You have to purchase other programs for iWork if you want to use them with Keynote.
• The timeline for animation can’t be displayed.
• You can’t run Keynote on Microsoft
For classroom use you can have all of your students make a presentation for either practice, fun, or a certain unit. For practice pick a broad subject and have everyone make a presentation, then compare. My ELA/reading teacher, Mrs.Osborn, had us do genius hour. A genius hour is when you have everyone pick a topic that they are interested in, give them a few weeks to brew up a presentation then have everyone practice public speaking by having everyone present. Or maybe you want to see what your classroom learned during this past unit. Throw them a random topic from that unit and see who was listening. For example if you teach a reading class and you had just finished a book, you could have everyone make a keynote about that book. You can have requirements or have random groups pick a topic on the book.
All in all, Keynote is an amazing app that was produced by Apple. I would fully recommend it. It is simple, yet interesting. It is one of my most used apps. Enjoy your time withKeynote!
