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On this episode of The Forge we chat with Nancy Duarte about the concepts in her book 'Resonate.' Learn how to create powerful and engaging presentations. Nancy talks about how Steve Job's iPhone launch presentation and Martin Luther King's I have a dream speak have similar elements.

Shared by Missionary Paul Nitz - Ties to the current WELSTech book discussion of Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds

John Dorn originally shared on G+:   I just tried the Movenote app for the first time and I love it. You can easily take a webcam video of yourself to show and explain documents. The app shows the documents and video side by side. You also have the ability to perform some annotation of your documents during the presentation. Very slick. 

Google Docs collaborative presentations on all aspects of technology in the classroom

The CW PowerPoint product provides presentation slides for the public domain hymns in Christian Worship. One PowerPoint file is provided for each hymn. Each file contains a title slide, multiple slides containing the lyrics of the hymn stanzas (including repeated refrains), and an ending credits.

A mostly web-based music curriculum that teachers in the KML federation took a look at a couple of months ago.  Get a bunch of schools together to look at and and they just might bring food.  They had Panera cater a meal for during the presentation!

Perhaps we should have regional/national Pecha Kucha presentation conference with iPads as prizes?

Chad Kafka shared: I will be presenting at the Google Education Summit during June 17-21 in Southeast Wisconsin!  It's a week long event focused on using Google in Education and participants get a Chromebook!   Here's a deal if you sign up, if you use the coupon code KAFKA, you get $100 off your registration!  Check it out.

Kelley Randall was so kind as to post her notes from this morning's (4/9/16) Intersection's presentation by Steve Zambo. I thought they would interest you. Also check out her links, especially to a video, the first in a series that St. John has begun.

Interesting episode with a former teacher, now presenter for other teachers on teaching the "gifted and talented" student. The episode isn't so much about the education end, as much as the technology behind Ian's work. Website looks very useful for teachers. http://www.byrdseed.com/

FREE Online professional presentations on using Google Apps from O'Reilly publishing. Learn to - Create an online community - Build and host a public website - Collaborate with colleagues - Assign project tasks - Share your work using Google Docs - Manage a schedule - Go pro with Google Apps Premier

Understanding our habits and those of others . . How might Christians and churches better use life events, like pregnancies, as opportunities for the Gospel? Target figures out who's pregnant to influence their buying habits. How might we "gentle as dove wise as serpent" ambassadors of Christ act and speak to make the most of opportunities to present the best free offer every conceived . . . salvation? Note that the article is a plug for the author's full length treatment of "habits".

Simple clear presentation of why businesses (and churches, schools) should care about promoting and monitoring their reputation (i.e. "brand") in social media. What was it they say about "word of mouth" . . Social Media is today's high tech "word of mouth" at warp speed.

Phraseology (iPad only) and Terminology (iPhone, iPad) are two low cost, high quality integrated writing tools useful for any writing task on the go from tweets to instructions, multipage reports, sermons, etc. Terminology (iPhone & iPad), in addition to its built in dictionary and thesaurus, allows you to chose which online word tools to check and integrate into your lookups/research. Phraseology (iPad only) is a friendly editing environment which is especially useful breaking down your word/phrase usage and frequency. Pay attention to the Flesch Kincaid Reading and Grade level scores along with other readability statistics, including root word frequency, and you can improve the comprehension of your written or oral presentation. Most pastors and teachers who either compose or copy-paste-revise content taking into account Phraseology's feedback should be able to greatly improve their audience's comprehension. Interested in tired old phrase remediation or reductions in redundancies and passive platitudes? Anyone?

TED talks/videos can be a great source of free classroom or individual student enrichment. Naturally, use with caution. TED materials are typically most appropriate for upper grade levels, but expecially visual presentations could be repurposed for the lower grade levels.