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Stellar Presentations - a book excerpt and guest post by Shel Israel | SlideShare Blog - 0 views

  • There are many ways to structure your presentation, but the two most common approaches center either on PowerPoint or storytelling. I heavily favor storytelling.
  • There are many ways to structure your presentation, but the two most common approaches center either on PowerPoint or storytelling. I heavily favor storytelling.
  • PowerPoint can be tedious. Some presenters pack slides with data, graphs and text, which are often hard to read. Some speakers actually turn their backsides toward the audience, to read aloud from their slides. I don’t advise it.
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  • Despite its flaws and frequent abuses, PowerPoint can add significant value to a talk when it is not misused.
  • One of my dirty little secrets is that without it, I am likely to lose my place while speaking.
  • But there’s another reason to include it. PowerPoint can be a great supplement to your talk. I use it to illustrate the stories I tell in the same way photos enhance the articles and blogs I publish.
  • I’m a minimalist on text. If I use bullet points, there are usually only one-to-five words per bullet and the font is large enough to read from the back of the room. When I click to a new slide, I pause and let people view it for a moment.
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    This excerpt (Israel, 2012, Ch. 5) mentions abuses and tedium of slide presentations, as well as advantages of, and strategies for supplementing talks with slide shows.
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Linguistic Myths and Adventures in Etymology - Miller-McCune - 1 views

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    Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22
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speech accent archive - 1 views

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    "The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).
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APA Style Blog: How to Capitalize and Format Reference Titles in APA Style - 0 views

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    Chelsea Lee explains, "The formatting of the titles of sources you use in your paper depends on two factors: (a) the independence of the source (stands alone vs. part of a greater whole) and (b) the location of the title (in the text of the paper vs. in the reference list entry)" (¶2), then charts and exemplifies the variants.
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Web Design Theory | Webdesigntuts+ - 0 views

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    A menu of 15 posts in "a series of essays, articles and tutorials on the topic of understanding the theory behind great website designs" (retrieved 2012.03.08).
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Understanding the F-Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts+ - 0 views

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    "The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it's foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an 'F' pattern" (Introducing the F-Layout, ¶1).
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LitReactor: Connect - Learn - Improve - Publish - 0 views

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    "LitReactor has three goals. To become: * A destination for writers to improve their craft. * A haven for readers to geek out about books. * And a platform to kickstart your writing goals." (http://litreactor.com/about) The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (2012.03.01): Abstracts (1) Character (15) Cliche (2) Dialogue (9) Grammar (10) Literary Devices (8) Live Reading (3) Narrator (7) Objects (4) POV (3) Phrases (3) Plot (18) Poetry (1) Research (9) Rewriting (2) Setting (1) Similies (1) Structure (14) Theme (8) Verbs (1) Vocabulary (5) Voice (16) Word Play (2) Workshop (2) (http://litreactor.com/essays/categories) 
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Google Voice - Features - 0 views

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    Menu of videos showing features of Google Voice
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The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them - 0 views

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    Novak, J. D., & Cañas, A. J. (2006, rev. 2008). The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 Rev 01-2008, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Available at: http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.pdf.
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English Language (ESL) Learning Online - UsingEnglish.com - 1 views

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    "UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners[,] and academics" (deck, ¶1, 2011.11.11).
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Subjects | Explorations of Style - 0 views

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    Fifth of five key strategies for revising academic writing
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Verbs | Explorations of Style - 0 views

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    Fourth of five key strategies for revising academic writing, moving from global to local revisions
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Transitions | Explorations of Style - 0 views

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    Third of five key strategies for revising academic writing
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Paragraphs | Explorations of Style - 0 views

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    2nd of five post in a series about revising academic writing
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Educational Leadership:Reading Comprehension:Making Sense of Online Text - 0 views

  • Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here I pose each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge.
  • The following strategy lesson invites students to stop, think, and anticipate where important information about a Web site's content might be found
  • To move students beyond simply cutting and pasting their notes directly into their final projects, teachers can provide students with a word-processing document (see fig. 3) that serves as a template to help them organize their research
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    Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. Educational Leadership 62(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx
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(Moral) Hazards of Scanning for Plagiarists: Evidence from Shoplifting | David E. Harri... - 0 views

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    Harrington suggests that plagiarism is endemic, and that originality reports from automated checking services enable writers to polish their work to make plagiarism difficult to detect. 
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Create a Google Map from a Spreadsheet | Zadling - 0 views

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    This tutorial by Zachary Zawarski explains "how to create a map with custom locations that you can publish on your website" (¶1). "The greatest benefit of this tool is that current entries can be edited and new entries can be added to the map through the Google spreadsheet without having to update the map's code..." (¶2, retrieved 2011.09.07). Thanks to Denise Krebs for pointing it out, and demonstrating how to do it in a recorded RSCON3 session (Elluminate recording entitled: Where in the world? Or, adding a directory map using a spreadsheet to your wiki.  For more info., please see her blog posts: http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/07/28/posting-a-directory-map-at-rscon3/ http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/08/06/mapping-our-connections-my-rscon3-session/
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Embedding mind maps | MindMeister Blog - 0 views

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    "...[Y]ou can embed a fully interactive mind map into your blogging/publishing platform of choice" (Embed a map? ¶1, 2011.08.30).
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The Moodle Reader Module - 0 views

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    "This site is for the support of the Moodle Reader Module, a module that provides quizzes on over 1600 graded readers and books for young readers, so that teachers can have a simple way to assess their students' work" (¶1, retrieved 2011.08.29).
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