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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.

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Although it hasn't been updated since December, this blog has some valuable information of making better presentations.

"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."

SOPHIA creates a vibrant learning community that empowers students to learn in their own way, helps teachers to innovate, and provides an opportunity to achieve an affordable college degree. We are surrounding the traditional classroom with a worldwide classroom that connects people who want to learn with people willing to teach. SOPHIA is a first-of-its-kind social education platform created to reach 21st century students: digital natives who grew up with Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube in a highly interactive and personalized digital world. We believe that a social learning experience, one that encourages exploratory and cooperative learning, is an opportunity to make higher education more affordable. At SOPHIA, we are putting students on a path to a lower cost college degree. Thanks to WYATT from Tuesday's ED554

World clouds have become very popular. Thanks to the Wordle javascript (www.wordle.net) anyone can make a beautiful picture with words. There are however some drawbacks, such as the Wordle picture can not be saved (directly) and because of copyright modifications or alterations of the Wordle application is out of the question. Word clouds are playful and it is very attractive way to show text. Here we offer yet another application to the list of our creativity tools: Wordaizer. This new application offer the possibility to tune, shape, create, print and save any word cloud that you can think of.

The noted educational futurist describes his "holodeck" classroom -- an environment that supports project-based learning -- and makes the case for why the role of the teacher must change from lecturer to exploration guide.

I remember making these in the corners of my textbooks...now I can do it online.

Free online resource for making surveys and polls to embed into blogs.

Twitter is intertwined with just about every aspect of the daily life of students, teachers, and everyone else online. That's why I thought this new infographic by Masters Degree Online makes some interesting points. If you can overlook the spelling errors, you should take a moment to learn a bit more about the relationship between Twitter and grades.

Collaborize is an online decision-making platform that helps your group identify, refine and respond to important questions, topics and ideas by adding structure to your conversations that drive to results and outcomes.

Wix.com lets you create a free Flash website without the need to code. With a stunning drag & drop interface Wix lets your work flow naturally and eliminates any obstacles that stand between you and beautiful website creation. Artists, photographers, entrepreneurs and small business owners in a variety of industries love Wix for its smooth ease-of-use and brilliant collection of quality web design. To learn how to make a website, just sign up with your e-mail account and you're ready to go.

Mission: Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.

I tried to use this, but I can't figure out how to duplicate some of the cool things I saw. All I could do was loop an existing video. I watched a bunch of GIFs that were really creative. There aren't any instructions. I will keep trying though.