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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.

"Education 2.0: Social networking for your class Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged."

The Flipped Classroom is gaining steam in schools across the world. Flipped classes focus on student interaction and engagement in class and a major component is the technology that can be used to create, deliver, and collaborate. Richard has posted on many of these tools, so I'll be sharing how I use a combination of tools in a typical unit.

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.

An engaging handwriting app that includes tilt activities as positive reinforcements. Also check out ABC maze also by gdiplus.

Fifteen short mini-comics provide the engaging framework for illustrating the meanings of words and word parts in context for students in grades five and up. And research shows that these high-interest visual narratives are especially motivating for ELL and reluctant readers in all grades, too.

ThingLink's technology makes it possible to embed audio, video and rich media links directly in images and share them across the web. Encourage your fans, friends, and consumers to engage with images by watching videos, listening to songs and sound clips, and exploring social media.

This project addresses the Friday Institute's goals of developing innovative teacher professional development practices and resources and improving 21st century teaching and learning. FIZZ will be an ongoing service offered and managed by the Friday Institute.