This program is great for making quality presentations that can be both created/edited/shown on desktops or mobile devices.

This is a very powerful multimedia presentation program. To call it ONLY a presentation program is really selling it short! It is so much more! During this hopefully, I can help explain some of the features and explain how to use it.

Give Your audience a reason to pay attention!

There are layout options, pictures, and text all available from this app. You can also pull in your own photos to add to make it unique to you.

Here are some tips from the app itself to create beautiful and creative Haiku Decks on your own.

Tip #1: Craft your presentation around one big, memorable idea.

For the class room setting, this would be the main idea of your presentation. Your topic that you have created the entire presentation around. DO NOT get too many ideas going on at once. You have to tell your audience your "story" in detail without having too many things going on that distract from this main idea. That is an art, and with practice we can all get better at that!

Tip #2: Stick to three key points. That's not three key points per slide....it's three key points, period.

This is like writing a 5 paragraph essay. Remember! You have your introduction topic that gives your reader a roadmap, then THREE body paragraphs (where you give your reader facts/details/information) and then a conclusion.

You do the exact same thing when doing a presentation. Too many points and your audience will walk away and have no clue what you have been talking about.

Tip #3: Focus on one idea per slide. The app deliberately limits the amount of text you can put on a slide to encourage this. After all, one idea per slide is really all your audience can absorb. "But," you say, "that will mean I'll have too many slides." --it's not the number of slides that matters; it's how clearly those slides communicate your message.

When you present to an audience, you do not read your slide to them. That makes them feel bad, they can read, you do not need to do it for them. Remember you are PRESENTING a story to them. So have a main idea, per slide, and then give them additional information that relates to that idea.

Tip #4: Keep words to a minimum. Some experts have rules about how many words to include on a slide. The general consensus is the fewer, the better. We like to think of words like oysters. About a half-dozen is perfect. Too many more than that is probably overdoing it. Remember, the point of your slides is not to duplicate exactly what you're going to say. It's to reinforce, illustrate, and deepen your message.

Tip #5: Use pictures to tell stories, not as decoration. Pictures, above all, grab our attention and connect with our emotions, making ideas vivid and memorable. Haiku Deck's keyword search puts more than 35 million free, high-quality, Creative Commons images, plus a million premium images from Getty Images, at your fingertips. You're bound to find the perfect backdrop for your words from this treasure trove, but you can create a chart or import your own images just as easily. The key is to use your images for true storytelling power, not just as embellishment.

This app has some amazing features. I want you to explore those and get to know this program. I have borrowed from their presentation to give you a few tips. Only by using and getting to know this program will you become better at it.


Let your topic/story drive the look of your presentation. Keep your formatting consistent. It is ok to have your text in the same spot on every time. It is just fine to use the same fonts/theme throughout. This helps your audience understand your presentation better. They can then focus on your words and not have to search for where to look on your slides.

We will now create our own Haiku Deck. This will be a practice to get to know the program.

1. Log On to a computer: haikudeck.com
Or Download the Free App

2. Create a Free Account. I would use an email address, but you can sign in using Facebook or Twitter. (I think email is more private)

3. Hit the Big Orange Button "Create a New Deck"

4. Let Your Imagination Go!