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Our mission is to make a positive impact in the world by making education more efficient and effective. We strive to enable educators to do what they do best, teach and inspire. edshelf is a directory of websites, mobile apps, and desktop software that are rated & reviewed by educators, for educators. We decrease the friction of using and procuring effective technology into the classroom.

This Guide will help you make an effective PowerPoint presentation quickly and easily. You'll learn: The one sentence that will make your presentation memorable Three questions to answer to create rapport with your audience The key factors in keeping your audience engaged The five PowerPoint slide formats that will enhance your presentation.

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Storytelling has been around as long as humankind. It is one of the most effective ways to communicate an important truth to another person. It is a connection point between two people. It gives meaning, context, and understanding in a world that is often filled with chaos and disorder.

Introducing PopAGraph - the app that offers endless combinations of features that will reduce redundancy in style and produce a 3D effect by literally popping your image off the page. You can isolate the "pop" image by resizing the selected area and applying filters separate to the background to add a dramatic contrast. Generate a multi frame look with the framing options. Change the color and roundness of the frame. Easily share your masterpiece with your friends. 

Today's digital students have access to a wealth of information, yet many struggle to navigate, evaluate, organize, or even comprehend this information appropriately and effectively. To succeed in today's digital world-and in the future-all learners need accessible, leveled content-area information and interactive, personalized learning tools.

An app that allows teachers to make a puzzle out of a photo and determine the number of pieces. Students to put the puzzle together throughout the day. When the puzzle is complete it is a photo of the reward student has earned. Engaging animation and sound effects. Teachers can add to individualized banks of puzzles for multiple students.

Effective vocabulary instruction requires active and positive student participation. In addition, familiarity with high-frequency affixes and roots promotes comprehension of numerous words in which they occur as meaningful chunks. In this online activity, students flip two chips to mix and match four word parts and make four words. Students then insert the four words into a paragraph, using context clues to determine where each word belongs. After each exercise, students can print their work to check whether they placed the four words in the paragraph correctly.

""Todays students are technologically savvy and spend hours a day online. Why are we still trying to teach them with textbooks when we have a wealth of digital options? These are teachers' responses after being asked to gauge the effectiveness of various forms of education materials.""

Video is a powerful means of getting your message out, and podcasting can build bonds with your listener, almost as if you have been having a weekly conversation. You can use a home-made video very effectively, and people have been creating popular podcasts in their basements since the genre was invented just a few years ago.

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.  Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers