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One Hour PowerPoint: 10 Strategies for Improving Presentations -David Jakes "In my role as an Instructional Technology Coordinator, I still see large numbers of students and teachers using presentation media in poorly designed ways. This presentation, and the 10 steps listed on this page, provide a simple framework for improving presentations, and can be taught to high school age students in about 50 minutes. Moreover, this presentation is more about communicating visually than it is about any kind of presentation software."

"A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently three tools: * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide * PowerPoint Twitter voting You can download a PowerPoint presentation containing the tools and instructions at the bottom of this page. Please note that these are prototypes that you use at your own risk."

"A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently three tools: * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide * PowerPoint Twitter voting You can download a PowerPoint presentation containing the tools and instructions at the bottom of this page. Please note that these are prototypes that you use at your own risk."

The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context. Find You can search and browse the Timeline Index in many ways: * Find your subjects by inserting keywords * Insert dates to find items from a specific year or periode * Or combine by using a [ + ], try for instance: 1400 + composers + italy Select Or simply select by category to find the items in a chronological order and context: * Just click 'Who, What, When, Where or Which' at the top * Click the dates to view all items from that year onwards * To view the Timeline items in another context you can click the categories on the left (below the dates) * Click on 'More' (or on the pictures) to discover more about the items, linked websites and related items, URL's and categories * To open the linked websites you click on the titles of the items Sort You can also sort the timelines from present-to-past or view people or events only within each category. Related Links Add a related link (URL) to an item and create more relevant information. We welcome time related items like chronologies, biographies, events, collections, etc. in any category. For quality reasons we reserve the right to edit/remove contributed links.

Homefront America in WW II A Document Based Question by Peter Pappas This lesson improves content reading comprehension with an engaging array of source documents - including journals, maps, photos, posters, cartoons, historic data and artifacts. It is framed around essential questions that link the past and present and invite students to reflect on parallel developments in contemporary America.

FreePoverty is a geography game that allows participants to contribute in donating water to people all over the world who live in extreme poverty. The game presents a city or landmark, and you have a short amount of time (5 to 10 seconds) to locate it on a map.

MilestoneDocuments.com combines famous primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers, MilestoneDocuments.com explores the speeches, laws and legal opinions, proclamations and executive orders, and other documents that influenced the course of history. At present the site only covers documents from American history, but we will be adding coverage of primary documents from world history later in 2009. Also coming soon is a greatly expanded set of resources for teaching with documents. For now, see our free monthly e-newsletter for U.S. history teachers.

Check out this amazing list of games put together in a presentation.

September 11 Remembered by Twitter - slide presentation on Slideshare

An extensive list of "cool" web tools for education. Categories include: Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Teacher Resources

Using digital resources in the social studies classroom -- presentation material at NCSS2010

Michael Jones presents "The New Meaning of Mapping" (in the age of GIS and interactive technologies). YouTube video.

EdTechTeacher.org presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for histlaptop classory and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, ipods, and online social networks and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Find out how others are using technology in the classroom.

Great Google Earth ideas here.

What do our textbooks omit? A sort of homage to James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me."