{"id":788,"date":"2017-04-19T07:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:16:08","slug":"tech-tool-of-the-month-sway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/tech-tool-of-the-month-sway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tool of the Month: Sway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tech-Tool-Sway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-789\" src=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tech-Tool-Sway-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tech-Tool-Sway-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tech-Tool-Sway-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tech-Tool-Sway.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Last winter I attended a conference and delved deeply into Microsoft Sway. The presenter gave us some free time to explore and create a Sway. Within 5 minutes, I had a new tool to add to my tech toolbox of \u201cgo to\u201d tools! Best of all, I had created my Sway in less than five minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">\u00a0I had already been slightly familiar with Sway from viewing a past TeachersFirst OK2Ask Session: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=17560\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">So Simple, So Slick, and So Sway<\/span><\/a>. What an appropriate title for that session. Sway is simple, slick, and so much more. I just really didn\u2019t grasp the true value of this tool until I tried my hand at it myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">\u00a0Sway helps you to create interactive presentations; it works on all platforms and has an iOS app available. Sign up for free with your email address. You can easily (and I mean EASILY) add your own text, questions, images, videos, and more. You can change the font, color palette, and layout to how you desire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">And that is it! Sway does the work for you. And the final product looks professional and slick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">As a teacher, use Sway to create engaging presentations about a science or social studies topic. Introduce yourself to the class on the first day using Sway. Share information and sounds from different music genres. Create presentations on nearly any and all topics using the slick and simple Sway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">Students can also use this tool easily. Sway gives your students a new alternative to PowerPoint. This tool is perfect for any research project. Challenge students to create a Sway demonstrating their knowledge about a subject being taught in class. Students could create a Sway rather than a traditional book report. Groups could create Sways about science investigations and experiments. Sway is truly simple, slick, and soaring with possibilities!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">\u00a0Here are some resources to help you and your students to get started with Sway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Normal1\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=16373\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">TeachersFirst\u2019s Review of Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.com\/tammy-dunbar\/2147\/what-is-genius?c=yZQcck\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Lesson Planning with Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=17560\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Archive of OK2Ask Session: So Slick, So Simple, So Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">\u00a0Sway video tutorials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pcg6DGO9hpI?list=PLXPr7gfUMmKyE22-YpbgcDfr2SXEO7-qX\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Introduction Video<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U8WOSQ-z6VA?list=PLXPr7gfUMmKyE22-YpbgcDfr2SXEO7-qX\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">How to Build a Presentation in Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zfBTecFGokI?list=PLXPr7gfUMmKyE22-YpbgcDfr2SXEO7-qX\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">How to Collaborate on a Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mZFnRVwgOOM\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Detailed \u201cHow To\u201d Instructions for Sway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Normal1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XKsqaTcFBu0\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Microsoft Sway for the Classroom<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">What other ideas do you have for using Sway in your classroom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter I attended a conference and delved deeply into Microsoft Sway. The presenter gave us some free time to explore and create a Sway. Within 5 minutes, I had a new tool to add to my tech toolbox of \u201cgo to\u201d tools! Best of all, I had created my Sway in less than five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/tech-tool-of-the-month-sway\/\" class=\"more-link\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[58,41,70,11],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tool-of-month","tag-microsoft","tag-presentation-design","tag-tech-tools","tag-technology-implementation"],"modified_by":"Ruth Okoye","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}