Haiku Deck iPad app is a presentation tool.
Create digital slide shows choosing from number of free templates. Haiku Deck incorporates searching of Creative Commons images to be used as background images. Bar graphs and pie charts can be created and inserted on a slide and data points can be highlighted during a presentation. There are numerous options for title/informational slide text layouts and lists. Haiku Deck acts as a self-contained presentation creator and presenter.
Decks can be presented from the iPad itself. With a Haiku Deck account, Twitter or Facebook connections work, users are able to share their presentation online by embedding or sharing private and public links. Users may download a PowerPoint or Keynote version of the presentation to use in respective applications.
Haiku Deck is a free app with additional themes for a cost.
Type of Material:
Development Tool
Recommended Uses:
Anyone in need of a presentation that is looking for an alternative to PowerPoint (or Keynote)
Technical Requirements:
iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. Sharing and backup require Wi-Fi and a Haiku Deck account.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
In addition to helping users produce stunning presentations, the app models best practices for combating cognitive load by supporting user engagement in streamlined slide design.
Target Student Population:
K-12, Higher Education or for Instructors
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
A strong understanding of how to prepare and lay out content for presentations
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This is not a learning tool - rather, it is a design tool that can be used to create learning objects.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This program models industry best-practices in the disciplines of communication, education, neuroscience and design. Presenters and audience-members alike will view the process of creating a presentation in a new light, understanding the effect of focusing attention from content-heavy slides back to the presenter.
Concerns:
• Not a replacement for PowerPoint or Keynote. Haiku is a basic to average presentation creation app. However, it is quite feature-rich for the iPad.
• Importing text requires copying and pasting; this might not be a great app for text heavy slide shows—which, a positive, may cause one to rethink how much text is necessary.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Gorgeous images in the public domain, clean chart and text layouts, and swappable themes are integrated with the tap of a finger. It's very easy for users to put together professional-looking presentations their very first time using the program with minimal effort.
Concerns:
Those that are searching for images directly on the iPad may find the process difficult in terms of honing down the best choice for each slide. There is a certain level of content organization that really needs to happen before people start using the program, particularly if they are accustomed to creating presentations in PowerPoint or Keynote.
Other Issues and Comments:
• The app is rated as “Rated 12+ for the following: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity.”
Creative Commons:
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