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An amazingly easy web-page creator. A little bit buggy with Chrome but the potential is enormous. Keep an eye on this one!

Brainstorming - Google Across the Curriculum This morning I'm facilitating a workshop at the MEA (Maine Education Association) Professional Issues Conference in Augusta, Maine. My workshop is designed to introduced participants to variety of Google services that they can use in their classrooms. Included in the workshop are five collaborative brainstorming sessions. Links to the collaborative document for the brainstorming sessions are interspersed in the slides you see below. Feel free to look through the brainstorming session documents and contribute your own thoughts. If you do add your ideas to the document, please make a note that you're a "global participant" in the brainstorming sessions.

Create and share holiday postcards online.

Why I Like Prezi In my life, I have given a *lot* of presentations. In high school, they were presentations on group projects. In university, they were presentations on research projects. At Google, they're presentations on how to use our APIs. When I first started giving presentations, I used Powerpoint, like everyone else. But I kept thinking there must be a better way, and I experimented with other options - flash interfaces, interactive Javascript apps. Then I discovered Prezi, and it has become my presentation tool of choice. Prezi is an online tool for creating presentations - but it's not just a Powerpoint clone, like the Zoho or Google offering. When you first create a Prezi, you're greeted with a blank canvas and a small toolbox. You can write text, insert images, and draw arrows. You can draw frames (visible or hidden) around bits of content, and then you can define a path from one frame to the next frame. That path is your presentation. It's like being able to draw your thoughts on a whiteboard, and then instructing a camera where to go and what to zoom into. It's a simple idea, but I love it. Here's why: It forces me to "shape" my presentation. A slide deck is always linear in form, with no obvious structure of ideas inside of it. Each of my Prezis has a structure, and each structure is different. The structure is visual, but it supports a conceptual structure. One structure might be 3 main ideas, with rows of ideas for each one. Another might be 1 main idea, with a circular branching of subideas. Having a structure helps me to have more of a point to my presentations, and to realize the core ideas of them. It makes it easy to go from brainstorming stage to presentation stage, all in the same tool. I can write a bunch of thoughts, insert some images, and easily move them around, cluster them, re-order them, etc. I can figure out the structure of my presentation by looking at what I have laid out, and seeing how they fit together. Some people do this

Record, upload and share interactive video presentations.  Access a variety of visual aids such as PowerPoint slides, drawing board, whiteboard and your video.  Students can see you as well as your presentation.

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A superb image editor where users simply drag and drop a photo into the site and slide the setting buttons until you get the result you want. Saving and sharing require signing into a free account. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

Great blog with tons of tips and collaborative slide shows with 100's of ideas for teachers.

A great tool from Diigo that allows you to share live sites as a presentation or bundle by adding them manually or using a RSS feed. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

video/slide intro and review

A useful presentation site which allows users to add text to voice audio commentary to a slideshow which then runs like a video with the slides and audio in sync. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Simply type the speech for each slide, instead of recording it, and HelloSlide automagically generates the audio. It gives more exposure to your presentations, making them searchable, editable, and available in 20 different languages.

Add speech to your presentations

I don't think you should ever miss this slide from Tom Barret. It is one of the best ones available online that provides awesome tips on how teachers can use iPad in their classrooms.

It's YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley to the rescue, snapping up social bookmarking website Delicious.com from Yahoo and underwriting its future. The site had been marked for "sunsetting" by Yahoo per a leaked slide last December, prompting much indignation from Delicious buffs.

Interesting perspectives and ideas about how to incorporate technology in the language arts classroom, but could easily extend beyond that

Haiku Deck about getting started with Twitter

Site for choosing pictures for a ppt slide