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"Your presentations are part of your personal brand - and you're not boring, right? Here's how to make your presentation yours by using your own images and playing with themes, which are basically stylish packages of fonts, color palettes, and image filters - like presentation templates, only better."

"Using most presentation apps can be like planning a wedding or an international getaway: all the choices can easily become overwhelming and gobble up your time. That's why we give you just enough options to make your slides look great - effortlessly and quickly. Here are some quick pointers on presentation formats - and a fun two-minute challenge:"

The one place to organize, present and share knowledge. Currently, teachers are using Edcanvas for: 1. Lesson planning: Creating lessons and collecting all the resources in one place. 2. Teaching: Presenting the lesson in class. 3. Professional development: Sharing the lesson with other teachers. As this is an alpha, there will be bugs here and there. We're working hard to fix them and adding new stuff every day... and often multiple times a day. So please report any bugs you find and check back regularly.

"Ever suffered through a presentation packed with tiny text, read aloud word by word? Experts agree: content narrowed down to one idea per slide is way better for an audience's comprehension (and sanity). While this can be a challenging exercise for some, Haiku Deck makes it easy. Here are some quick pointers on simplifying communication - and a fun two-minute challenge:"

"Ever suffered through a presentation packed with tiny text, read aloud word by word? Experts agree: content narrowed down to one idea per slide is way better for an audience's comprehension (and sanity). While this can be a challenging exercise for some, Haiku Deck makes it easy. Here are some quick pointers on simplifying communication - and a fun two-minute challenge:"

"You might remember from last time that packing slides full of text is a no-go. Guess what? This applies to data, too. Thankfully, Haiku Deck makes showing the story behind your numbers way easier than those pesky word problems in math class. Here are some quick pointers for presenting data effectively, plus a fun two-minute challenge:"

"Present on desktop & mobile and projector screens at the same time." Accepts Word, PowerPoint, or PDF files. Share live to any device, anywhere with a short link. Even use with a Google Hangout!

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"If you've ever complained about the way things are in schools today, now's your chance to stop talking and start acting by participating in the Reinventing School Challenge. The challenge is a program that begins with a simple mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternative learning environments and equip learners with 21st Century skills. It takes a fresh and different approach to school reform in the following ways. Inviting the whole community to get involved. Giving the community a framework to collaborate and fashion solutions for their own school communities. Providing a platform to present, share and celebrate what's possible and what really works."

"A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects."

"Do you use Discovery Education as an educator for streaming media and other digital resources for your classroom?  Great!  Now you need to let your students try Discovery's new student center and the Board Builder tool for creating content. Similar to Glogster and able to be shared between teacher, student, and others. (You must have a Discovery Education account for this product.)"

"Build a lesson by dragging and dropping files into Apollo. Drag and drop PDFs, PowerPoints, images, and word docs right into Apollo. You can also add rich content such as videos and web links to spice up your lesson. Files are automatically converted so they can be viewed on any device - you can have a lesson ready to go in under 30 seconds."

"Visuals are mentally processed 60,000 times faster than text. That's one reason why Haiku Decks are so visual -  so your content is easily understood and remembered. Here are a few quick pointers for effective visual communication, and a fun two-minute challenge for you to try."