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PechaKucha is a presentation format: 20 slides x 20 seconds.

SIL Team, Doris told me about this and Eric Markinson sent it to me. It's an awesome idea to share with your students as they go out to present, but it's also something you could organize in your School, Local Community, etc. Terry

Slideshare net presentation on Social Media Explained Visually, a 2 minute look at how social media enables people to create, share, discuss, repurpose, ...

Knowledge, Exchange, Exhibition, Presentation site sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation

Built by the Foundation Center, the PubHub offers over 6,500 (as of Nov 2011) foundation-sponsored reports, from research reports to case studies to issue briefs. All are presented via database, which offers both a keyword search and more extensive browse functions.

by Ron Tanner, November 6, 2011 This article echoes some of what Geoff ? said several years ago. When I began teaching a course called "Writing for the Web," three years ago, I pictured myself scrambling to keep up with my plugged-in, tech-savvy students. I was sure I was in over my head. So I was stunned to discover that most of the 20-year-olds I meet know very little about the Internet, and even less about how to communicate effectively online. The media present young people as the audacious pilots of a technological juggernaut. Think Napster, Twitter, Facebook. Given that the average 18-year-old spends hours each day immersed in electronic media, we oldsters tend to assume that every other teenager is the next Mark Zuckerberg. Aren't kids crazy about downloading music, swapping files, sharing links, texting, and playing video games? But video games do not create savvy users of the Internet. Video games predate the Internet and have little to do with online culture. When games are played online, the computer is no longer an open portal to the world. It is an insular system, related only to other gaming machines, like Nintendo and Xbox. The only communication that games afford is within the closed world of the game itself-who is on my team? At their worst, games divert children from other, more enriching experiences. The Internet's chief similarity to video games is that both siphon off audiences from television, which will soon reside exclusively on the Internet. As a delivery system for television, film, and games, the Internet has proved itself a premier source of entertainment. And that's all that most young people know about it. Why wouldn't we educate students in sophisticated uses of the Internet, which is commanding an increasing amount of the world's time and attention? I'm not talking about a course on "How to Understand the Internet" or an introduction to searching for legitimate research-paper sources online (although that is useful, obviously

Great presentation on how to use Adobe Connect for synchronous learning by K-8 students and Encarde, a way to communicate with students and parents and keep them responding to deadlines on projects without using email, that most people read late or not at all. This virtual model could also work for SLI.

Blog on high school economics and 4th grade collaboration on Lawn Boy book that focuses on economic principles that guide a young boy's lawn mowing practice into a money maker. I like that because it takes sophisticated principles and presents them within an interesting story that grabs 4th graders and high school students. Then through a collaboration online between the two age groups, they discuss the book together through a series of Skype interviews/interactions.

Supported by an organization called ICS College Funding, the Weekly Scholarship Alert is an email service that delivers 5-10 scholarship ideas to your email in-box each week. According to their site, they present scholarships "for students in grade school to graduate school."

Presented by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, this page discusses such shared characteristics as core principles, college-wide commitment to the EC partnership, and adopting strategies that are research-based.