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We're all born with deep natural capacities for creativity, and systems of mass education tend to suppress them. It is increasingly urgent to cultivate these capacities and to rethink the dominant approaches to education to make sure that we do. I watched his first famous video and this is a follow up...will make you pause and worthwhile to introduce to students.

Prezi is a cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. I have been using prezi for the past 3 years and with each update there is a shorter learning curve. More creative than power point presentations. MOT students who are more "right" brained and more global than linear in their thinking and learning seem to embrace the prezi format.

I think most of us know about Creative Commons but this site allows you to search various popular websites for content that you can share and edit for educational use.  

A great site to look for great images for presentations.  The images have been uploaded by other people, but released for public use.  You can search by topic, such as walking.

This site provides an example of the Critical Incident Questionnaire by Brookfield to help assess student learning.  This can help with self-assessment for students.

Fun and creative way to open up class. Especially like the speech on teachers and students.

Details from website. Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management and possesses three features that you will not find anywhere else, namely a) A unique approach for organizing literature, focusing on your annotations instead of documents b) A unique approach for drafting and writing your assignments, papers, books, thesis, etc. c) A research paper recommender systems that recommends papers that are entirely free, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs Due to these three unique features, Docear will fundamentally change your way of organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature.

Free tool for soliciting feedback regarding the course or to schedule a synchronous classroom session.