Sway, an interactive presentation, newsletter, and report creator

Description: Sway is a digital tool by Microsoft for creating interactive presentations, newsletters, stories, and reports. Users can create content from scratch or by importing documents and then adding text, images, and multimedia with features like animations and transitions. Sway also provides many templates that can be mixed to get different layouts. It is completely free for users with a Microsoft account, requiring sign-up for use.

Evaluation: Sway is a handy tool that allows creating dynamic presentations without extensive design skills. It can be used for different educational purposes, such as creating digital lessons, stories, educational newsletters, and more. It can be particularly useful to enhance storytelling skills and engage with visually-oriented students.

Cost: Free with a Microsoft account.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium. Sway does not use user data for anything other than providing users with its services. On the platform, users can control who can visualise their content by setting it as public or private. Sway has different security measures in place, among which is encryption. Also, it stores data of users of the EU within the Union. In the past, there have been privacy concerns regarding Microsoft’s privacy policies but it does state compliance with the GDPR. See more here, here, and here.

Type Of Interaction: Individual work, Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling),

Content: You supply,

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