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PowerPoint I think students should know how to create a PowerPoint presentation by the time they leave middle school.

This presentation tool is very interesting. It certainly is different from the standard powerpoint. I find the movement from one slide to another to be very engaging. I viewed a presentation that a teacher used to introduce herself to her class. I could see using this with my 2nd grade class as a way to introduce myself or to tell them about my 10 favorite books.

Earlier during the school year, I collaborated on a presentation to the community on what the Iowa Core Curriculum looked like and what effects it might have on the school and the community. My principal used Prezi as a presentation tool. I really liked it and thought the students might really like using it as well. As a PLC, we expressed the need for students to have uniform presentation criteria. Prezi might be one of those tools. Power Point might be great, but this online tool is available to everyone anywhere they have internet access. Groups can also collaborate. I was doing a unit with my sophomores on overcoming adversity. After watching the movie We Are Marshall, I wanted them to choose a real-life person who has overcome adversity. I wanted them to do a presentation and so I did one in Prezi as a demonstration. Mine is only partially done because I used it as a demonstration tool. I am going to try to share the file, but I do not know if it will work or not. I may have to post again to get it to work. http://prezi.com/-jght3tofk0q/red-dawson/

I attended a conference in Des Moines this spring and went to a Scott McLeod presentation. A presenter showed us the biocube tool. I didn't get to use it, but I thought it was a good tool to help with simple presentations, especially biographies.

Since we use Google Docs at our school, we can accomplish a lot of the same things that slideshare does, but I still think it's a valuable site for making collaborative slide presentations and sharing them online.

I use Slideshare quite often in order to take a PowerPoint presentation that I used at a face-to-face professional development session and place it for viewing on a website. It's quick and easy. I usually have a website for most of the professional development presentations I do with resources, etc. and so this just makes it very quick and easy to add the PP that I used also.

Create multi-media slide shows that contain images, documents, and video. Comments can be left on each slide in 5 different ways. his could be use with students to create all kinds of presentations and ways to display their learning. They could video tape a science lab and then use this to narrate their learning as they go through the video. Teachers could use this tool to video their classroom and then collaborate with one another using this tool. The collaboration could take place with teacher from different districts, states, even countries.

This is a powerpoint presentation that gives great ideas on using wikis in the classroom.

This is a wiki with many web 2.0 tools. They are organized on the left hand tool bar into presentation tools, collaborative tools, research tools, video tools, etc. Nominated for best Educational Wiki 2009 and 2010.

Google Docs is an online alternative to Microsoft Office applications. It includes word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, form, and drawing tools. All documents can be shared with other users to just view, or to collaborate.

This tool allows you to upload images, video and music. It combines your uploads and presents them in a professional quality video. This would be great for end of year programs and parent-teacher conferences.

I was excited to see this free Web-conferencing tool. It can be used free to conduct a conference for up to 20 people - collaborative presentations, desktop sharing, chat, interactive audio, etc. Can use in conjunction with Skype. Benefit would be use in reaching students across various geographic locations. This tool could assist some students in feeling more connected to an online class by seeing actual desktops and the interactive audio.

As I was searching for some tools that I could post, I came across this website. I thought it looked interesting because it have some of the same tools we are using plus some others. As I looked a little deeper... WOW I have always wanted to go more indepth with my vocabulary that I teach, and if you teach vocab, you need to check out Vocabulary Activities. I wanted a way to present a new word and then show the students all the related forms with the same root. Visuwords (http://www.visuwords.com) does just that. I can use it; the students can use it. And it also breaks related words down by part of speech. There are so many other options a teacher could use.

A great site to go through with your students or to use as an interactive learning experience. Lots of opportunity for differentiation in how you present it to students.

I'd heard of this tool but didn't know much about it. I registered for a free account and have been able to explore. There are three main tabs: Your Prezis, Learn, and Explore. I was able to look at many examples of Prezis under the Explore tab, which gave me an idea of how I might use this tool in my current work. It looks like a good alternative to PPT.

This site is a great resource for Web 2.0 tools. Down the left side you click on the type of tools you want to find; presentation, collaboration, research, audio, and many, many more. Then it gives you a list of tools that fits that particular criteria