Ultimate Haiku Deck Resource Guide

More and more, we’re hearing that creative teachers, students, and technology trainers are saying goodbye to Powerpoint for education and embracing Haiku Deck for a fresh, flexible way to collect and present facts, share ideas, tell visual stories, illustrate processes, capture evidence, and explore connections between words and images. Here’s what they have to say about Haiku Deck:

Teachers Talk Haiku Deck – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;
Teachers appreciate that Haiku Deck encourages students to focus on simplifying and communicating their message without getting too bogged down in formatting choices or sidetracked by fancy transitions. Students love that Haiku Deck is easy and fun to use, and they feel a sense of pride and ownership of what they create. We have even seen innovative administrators and counselors using Haiku Deck to communicate day-to-day information, raise awareness for important causes, and share uplifting messages for inspiration and support.

With enlightened fans spreading the word across the country via Twitter chats, conferences, and EdCamps, we created this toolkit to help educators get started with Haiku Deck.

Step 1: Get Haiku Deck

• Haiku Deck for iPad and iPhone: You can download the free app here.
• Web: anyone with an account on haikudeck.com has access to our Web App, just click here to get started.

Step 2: Create a Haiku Deck Account

You can sign in with email, Facebook, Google, or Twitter.

Step 3: Get to Know Haiku Deck

Here’s a quick video intro to Haiku Deck:

Meet Haiku Deck from Haiku Deck on Vimeo.

Things to think about as you explore the app:

• How the constraints encourage simplicity and focus
• How words and visuals work together
• How the app can encourage creativity and storytelling across content areas
• How Haiku Deck encourages good digital citizenship through the Creative Commons image search

Ideas:

• For inspiration, click/tap GALLERY to browse some popular and featured decks
• Tap the + sign at the bottom of the iPad app, or  NEW DECK on the web to create a new deck
• Try using the built-in keyword image search and using your own images (you can take them with the camera from the iPad app, select from your camera roll [iPad app] or computer [Web App], or import from Instagram, Dropbox, and other sources)
• Try choosing a new theme to change the look of your deck
• Try creating a pie chart or bar graph (iPad only)
• Create a deck to introduce yourself
• Create a list of things you love or things you believe in
• Create a deck to articulate your philosophy about education
• Create a deck that explains or collects facts about a topic

Step 4: Explore More Features and Get Inspired 

Tutorials and Beginning Resources

• 10 Tips to Transform Your Presentations (Haiku Deck illustrating our core philosophy of simple, beautiful, and fun)
• Haiku Deck Tutorial: Getting Started (Basic navigation and settings of the iPad app)
• Edit Mode Tutorial (Creating and working with slides in the iPad app)
• Free Photos for All: How Haiku Deck Puts Creative Commons Images at Your Fingertips (About the built-in keyword image search, which taps into millions of Creative Commons images with automatic attribution)
• Import Images to Haiku Deck Like a Pro (How to use images from your camera roll, computer, photo stream, and online services like Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more)
• Why Does Haiku Deck Have a 12+ Age Rating? (Important info about Haiku Deck’s image search)
  • Note: It is possible that some “inappropriate” images will come up in your search results. Here’s what we recommend doing to workaround this:
    • Do some searching on your topic ahead of time to look for (and possibly discuss) trouble spots.
    • Create a folder or set of pre-screened images in Google Drive, Flickr, or Dropbox for your students to access.
    • Have students generate their own iPad images by using the iPad camera (here’s an example), or by creating illustrations and pulling them in off the camera roll.
• Charts and Graphs Made Easy with Haiku Deck (How to create simple, beautiful pie charts, bar charts, and stat charts right in the Haiku Deck iPad app with intuitive touch controls)
• More Tutorials and Videos (Pinterest board)
• Haiku Deck Support Community (For fast, personalized help – really!)

Resources for Educators

• Tips for Using Haiku Deck in the Classroom (tips for managing accounts, adjusting auto-capitalization, teaching digital citizenship, using images with younger students, publishing without email, adding notes and printing, embedding decks in a classroom blog or site, and more)
• Pinterest board of Education Case Studies (examples of Haiku Decks created by educators and students from a range of levels and content areas)
• Teachers Talk Haiku Deck (Haiku Deck of testimonials and quotes from teachers)
• Create Beautiful Presentations with Haiku Deck (writeup by Richard Byrne in Free Technology for Teachers)
• Promoting Visual Literacy with Haiku Deck (guest post by Kristen Swanson on Free Technology for Teachers)
• 10 Ways to Use Haiku Deck in the Classroom (writeup by Krissy Venosdale of Venspired)
• Survey about Haiku Deck for Educators (share your feedback!)

Advanced Resources

• Turn Presentations into Content Assets with Public Notes
• Presentation Inspiration: 3 Power Tips for Selecting Images
• How to Enrich Conferences and Events with Haiku Deck (Great for EdCamps and professional development events large and small)

Power Tips

• Turn auto-capitalization off if you’d like students to practice correct capitalization as they work. From the Main Screen, tap the Settings wheel, then adjust the Use Auto-Capitalization? toggle to OFF. Read more about Main Screen settings here.
• Teach digital citizenship. Our app’s image search gives you access to over 35 million free Creative Commons licensed images and automatically applies the proper attributions to the image. Read more about our Creative Commons image search here.
• Publishing without email. We understand that many teachers don’t have access to email in their classroom, so we made it possible to publish Haiku Decks straight to the website. You can read more about publishing and sharing here.
• Embed in your classroom blog or site. Easily embed your Haiku Decks right from the app or from the website. In either case, simply copy the code string and paste to your blog. Read more about embedding Haiku Decks here.

Step 5: Join our Community and Build your PLN

• Follow Haiku Deck on Twitter
• Connect with Haiku Deck EDU Gurus @mrmacnology, @connectedtchr, @SSpellmanCann, @rafranzdavis, @msfilas, @jaimevanderg, @assistivetek, @k_shelton, @lhighfill, @iPadSammy, @LMSkaren, @lessonflipper, @geekyteach on Twitter
• Join our Google+ community
• Join our Google+ Haiku EDU community
• Find us on Facebook

If you have more questions about Haiku Deck or need additional materials, we are always here to help! Just leave us a note in the comments.