Basic Information

Haiku Deck is the fastest, easiest new way to create and share beautiful presentations without hiring a professional designer or wrestling with complicated software.

Primary Use:

• [General] Present information with different types of content (text, photos, multi-media) in a flexible layout to share online
• [Faculty] Reports, Presentations, Lessons, Classroom Management Dashboard
• [Students] Presentations, Classroom Gallery

Key Features:

• Educators can easily add or remove students from their classroom by email address
• Educators and Students can view or create Haiku deck on web, Ipad and Iphone
• Educators who use Google Classroom may import users from and share decks directly to Google Classroom
• Haiku Deck now supports Google sign-in, for students without an email address.
• Students can share Haiku Decks to a classroom gallery, making it easy for teachers to review and evaluate work
• Students can easily share their Haiku Decks to Classroom Management Systems like Schoology, Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, Edmodo, and more
• Download presentations for offline printing, sharing, and editing
• Search for and embed YouTube videos into your presentation
• Built-in bar, pie, and stat charts for presenting data

Meet Haiku Deck: Simple and Powerful Presentation Tool

Category: Presentation Tool

Keywords: Presentation, Google Classroom, Media

 Detailed Information

Full Description: 

Haiku Deck is a presentation creation website and app (for iOS) that uses images, text, audio, and video to make impactful presentations with “decks” of slides. Teachers and students can choose from pre‐loaded themes, millions of Creative Commons stock photographs, personal images, charts, graphs, and colors, and then add text to present information slide by slide. Presentations can be shared on the public web or via link, email, or social media. Presentations can also be exported as MP4 videos (with or without audio narration) or downloaded in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides. Haiku Deck Classroom provides additional privacy and sharing options, including classroom galleries and integration with Google Classroom.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free basic Account or Subscribed to PRO/Premium
• Download from App Store

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

We live in a PowerPoint world, but despite Microsoft’s best efforts it’s not that easy to put together a professional looking slide deck with the powerful Office presentation app. The learning curve for more than a few slides with simple bullet points is simply too steep. Haiku Deck makes the most beautifully designed presentations, and it is literally impossible to make an unattractive presentation with this tool. There are no confusing or cluttered slides with this app. The design elements are clear and beautiful. If having a well‐designed presentation is important to you, this is a great tool. Unfortunately, it is currently only available as an app which means it will not work for a lot of users. If you are looking for a simple, easy tool that makes gorgeous slides, this might be the platform for you.

Good for Teaching:

Haiku Deck is great for BYOD (bring your own device) classrooms because it’s a web app and it works in any web browser (even on a phone). There’s also an iOS app, though some features aren’t available in this version. With Live Presentation mode, teachers can broadcast to student screens to engage students in their classroom or anywhere in the world. Haiku Deck is also a great tool for a flipped classroom. Using the audio feature, teachers can record instructions or a lecture to play with the slides, and then share the presentation with a link or download it and share/post the file. Likewise, students can record their own voices with their presentations and share with their teacher or classmates.

Good for Learning:

Haiku Deck is only as good as the ideas, organization, and images brought to it. It doesn’t help students learn the essentials behind building good presentations ‐ such as researching, organizing, and keeping the audience in mind ‐ but students can learn to make wise decisions regarding the use of images and text. Even though the design encourages limited use of words, text simply gets smaller to fit more words, so word‐heavy presentations can be made. Haiku Deck searches millions of Creative Commons images, and despite the built‐in filter, something inappropriate may appear. Because all presentations made for free are public, and even Pro presentations are public by default, there are a lot of public presentations that students can browse and therefore remix. While this can be a great way to share ideas, it‐s also an easy way to plagiarize.