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LONDON, Aug. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Powtoon, the world-leading online video and presentation creation platform for the video generation, and Clever, the most widely used single sign-on (SSO) portal in K-12 schools nationwide, today announced a new partnership. Powtoon will be available in the Clever Library, a catalog of high-quality digital resources that teachers can deploy to their classroom within seconds.
Powtoon allows teachers and students alike to bring their classrooms to life with the power of video. Powtoon adds a touch of awesomeness to educational materials with many of its animation library elements such as characters, props, objects, designed backgrounds, and templates having been professionally designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can choose from classroom-ready templates like school syllabus, teacher introduction, class lesson, and assignment announcement. For students, creativity thrives with a simple, intuitive platform that enables them to turn homework, assignments, book reports, research summaries, and class presentations into engaging, educational videos that they enjoy creating.
Through this new partnership between Clever and Powtoon, Clever users can use their SSO portal to find Powtoon in Clever Library. This will give them a free trial of Powtoon's Classroom plan and full access to the platform and creative assets. Teachers using Clever will see that their virtual classrooms on the platform will automatically sync within their Powtoon account. Students registered with Clever will be given Powtoon accounts as part of the trial, with seamless login and advanced security features.
Using Powtoon, Clever teachers can easily explain complex topics, ideas, and processes and have their information stick with students. Both Clever and Powtoon are excited for this collaboration to inspire teachers to bring more technology into their classes, and to empower students to exercise skills such as video creation, creative thinking, teamwork, and public speaking.
"With Clever Library, educators can discover innovative classroom tools like Powtoon," says Michelle Lu, Library Product Manager at Clever. "With just a few clicks, students can securely log into their Powtoon accounts seamlessly within their Clever Portal."
Powtoon, launched in 2012, is the world-leading video creation platform. Powtoon's mission is to empower everyone to create awesome videos with a professional look and feel. In just seven short years, over 70 million Powtoon videos have been created for use in businesses and educational institutes across the globe. Powtoon adds a spark of awesomeness to everyday communications.
More than 25 million users including marketers, HR professionals, corporate trainers, educators, 96% of all Fortune 500 companies, Ivy League universities, and leading SMBs actively use Powtoon. A new Powtoon is created every second of every day. Powtoon currently has offices in London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, and Ukraine.
Clever was founded by educators and technologists to speed the adoption and impact of learning applications in the classroom. Now, more than 50% of U.S. K-12 schools use Clever to deploy leading software applications and provide a secure, personalized learning experience for teachers and students. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Partners, GSV Capital, and Y-Combinator, Clever is based in San Francisco, California. For more information visit
Built for academic institutions in K12 and Higher Education, enterprises and teams, Powtoon is the visual communication platform that makes videos and visual content enjoyable to create, simple to manage, and quick to distribute. Enable students with project creation and Canvas submission, Empower Teachers and Faculty with Canvas assignment settings and grading.
Powtoon is working towards achieving WCAG 2.1 compliance at Level AA in the second half of 2021 across its web application. Currently Videos created using Powtoon can easily be made accessible according to standard by utilizing closed caption features of common video hosting solutions. Automatic closed caption creation will become available on the Powtoon platform in the first half of 2021.
PowToon has the potential to be a powerful animated presentation tool. Whether teacher- or student-created presentations are the plan, the slide-based format allows presenters some control over how they present their information. Turn writing instruction on its head by teaching students to create expository or persuasive videos. Bring science to life by creating animations of famous scientific discoveries. Ditch the health textbook and let students create infographic-style videos to show the benefits of healthy eating and exercise. Show the power of word economy by having students create public service announcements or 100-word presentations that pack a punch. Liven up your own instruction and grab students' attention by creating animations on an unlimited number of topics -- perhaps including some fun stickers, backgrounds, and borders to keep viewers engaged.
PowToon blogs feature inspirational articles on the merits of using animated presentations -- mostly marketing hype with some useful hints included, so you may find it helpful to browse through them. Teachers should be prepared to spend a class period or two letting students figure out how to use PowToon and its many features, and it will help if teachers know something about the tool in order to guide students. Beware that since PowToon uses images and video from Flickr and Storyblocks, students may inadvertently access inappropriate content. Teachers should remind their students of the school policy regarding such incidents as they create their slides.
PowToon gives users tools to create animated slideshow presentations that present like videos. Anyone can sign up for free with an email address; teachers can buy a classroom account for up to 90 students, which gives them access to additional templates, features, and export options. Once signed in on the website or Chrome app, users can design presentations using ready-made templates or start from scratch. Both options allow users to add text, images, simple animations, short videos, stickers, transition effects, borders, and more. Users can search for images and videos on PowToon, or they can upload or import their own. Free, Basic, and Elite versions come with different customization options and time limits. Beware that there are sometimes lags in loading projects, and getting the timing right on slide elements can be tricky and at times, frustrating.
When finished, users have several sharing options: download presentations as PowerPoint, PDF, or MP4 (Basic and Elite) files; upload or share to a variety of social media platforms; email or embed presentations; send to the teacher account for review; or keep them in their personal PowToon dashboard. Other features, such as professional voice-over narration, are available for a fee.
While many of PowToon's resources and tutorials focus on business and marketing presentations, the ability to spice up the traditional slideshow presentation enhances its potential as a classroom tool. Students can become teachers, and teachers can increase their tech cred with students by moving beyond the slideshow. There are real opportunities to create problem-based learning assignments and passion projects, and to teach design thinking concepts by having students research issues and create short PSAs or solution-based informational videos. Teachers will want to spend some time teaching students about the balance between text and pictures -- as well as how to plan slide length -- so that viewers don't get bored by too much text or are rushed to read the text that's there. There isn't much worse than being stuck watching video after video filled with paragraphs that overwhelm without teaching much.
Despite its education plans, PowToon's support, examples, and the general feel are geared more toward use in the business world. Social media pages such as Twitter and Facebook are becoming more useful resources for teachers looking to use PowToon as a learning tool, but classroom use feels like an afterthought. Students can share presentations with their peers and collaborate on ideas in class, but real-time collaborative editing capability would be a nice addition. More education-related examples and blogs for inspiration would make this tool an even more valuable classroom resource.
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