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Looking at the New Directions for school leadership and the teaching profession discussion paper, the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria's education outcomes are not improving is the report "Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy" Specifically the New Directions paper focuses on reading literacy, where in 2009, 14,251 students were given a two-hour pen and paper comprehension test. To get an idea of what types of competencies the reading test is assessing we can look at the sample test , with questions range from comprehension about a letter in a newspaper, the ability to interpret a receipt, comprehension around a short story, an informational text, and interpreting a table. While it doesn't seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today's technology driven world.

"Easily create your own compelling web based projects, walkthroughs, presentations, and class reports that you can post on your class website, blog, social network or just share directly from simplebooklet.com."

HelloSlide transforms your slides into a rich audiovisual format, recreating the experience of a live lecture. Simply upload your presentation, type the speech for each slide, and HelloSlide automagically generates the audio.

"Here's a quick look at how to get started with eduClipper Presentation Portfolios"

Not a bad app as an addition to using google presentation, few more features on it which is nice.

Add instant tweets to your presentations.

Texas Computer Educators Conference. Use the schedule to find presentations with handouts. Free stuff and links. Look at slide shows. Select by key terms, topic, grade level, etc.

Oomfo is a new (beta) add-on site for PowerPoint. Once Oomfo is downloaded users can then create excellent looking, interactive, animated graphs.

Videos of Demo2009 presentations for innovating products.

ASAE and Center for Association Leadership annual meeting August 14 -18, 2009 in Toronto. Presentations and handouts. The site also illustrates a new hub tool for conference participants bringing together info streams to one location.

October 2009 presentations by speakers are all there in online video. Amazing.

October 2009 presentations by speakers are all there in online video. Amazing.

A free tool for turning PowerPoint slides into rich video presentations right from your web browser. No fancy hardware or video software needed - just a webcam and microphone.

Thanks to @rmbyrne & Free Technology for Teachers for this one.

GifDeck is a tool that can convert your SlideShare presentation into an animated GIF. It is simple to use - go to the site, paste in a SlideShare URL, and out comes an animated version. You can then embed the GIF whatever you like. You can also adjust how long you want each slide to appear, how many slides you want to included and the size of the GIF.

"Present on desktop, mobile and projector screens at the same time. "