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December 17, 2007 03:55 PM

Winter Web 2.0 Tools

animoto = customize videos
dandelife = timeline
flector = slideshows, cards, games
flickerstory
mapwing = Build, share, and explore virtual tours.
mixercast = Create widgets and mashups
ourstory = timeline
twitter = Cell phone blogging
ustream = interactive video
xtimeline = timelines

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December 8, 2007 12:45 PM

Google Earth Blog

The Google Earth Blog is the best resource for learning about Google Earth.

Your task is to learn one new thing from the blog today and to post a comment in which you reflect on how what you learned could be used in education.

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Standards Presentation

My PPT has two linked files which are not attached. Please e-mail me if you need those files.

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Sanders and Mineral Collaboration

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The News in Google Earth

News organizations publish the news through RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. One way to view these feeds, when they are available as KML files, is through Google Earth.

To you and me, this means that we can use an RSS reader (Google Earth in this case) to subscribe to feeds. This will allow us to automatically see the news displayed Google Earth.

The cool thing about this is that Google Earth displays the news geographically. This generally means that the stories will show up at the location where they are being syndicated from.

Cool, huh? How might visually-based news change your students perception of news?

News Links

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Teaching Professors about Technology Part

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TED videos driving home global implications of the NETS Standards 1 & 6


The global implications of each of the NETS Standards indicatory
Standard
NETS #1. Creativity and Innovation – Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. Identify trends and forecast possibilities.
NETS #6. Technology Operations and Concepts – Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations. Students: Understand and use technology systems. Select and use applications effectively and productively. Troubleshoot systems and applications. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

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Teacher Resource

As part of our teacher training, Mandy and I set up a staff blog. We hope this blog will be a resource our teachers will go to for ideas, and to share stories.


http://clintonstaff.blogspot.com/

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Who We Are

Brooks

Phillips

Elliston School #27

ms_phillips_78 @ yahoo.com

Cathy

Stone

Clancy School

cstone @ clancy.k12.mt.us

Christine

West

St. Regis

westc @ stregis.k12.mt.us

Daisy

Carlsmith

Blackfoot SD

dcarlsmith @ blackfoot.net

Dean

Phillips

Helmville School

helmvilleschool @ blackfoot.net

Deb

Pier

Hot Springs Elem

dpier @ hotsprings.k12.mt.us

Denise

Montgomery

Plains Elem

dmontgomery @ blackfoot.net

Desiree

Caskey

Billings Elem

caskeyd @ billings.k12.mt.us

Diane

Woodard

Superior Public Schools

diane @ sd3.k12.mt.us

Georgia

Cobbs

University of Montana

georgia.cobbs @ mso.umt.edu

Jeff

Crews

University of Montana

jeff.crews @ umontana.edu

Jennifer

Arns

OETC

jena @ oetc.org

Jennifer

Harrison

Rocky Boy H S

jenmdse @ bresnan.net

Libby

Solberg

Poplar Elem

libby @ onewest.net

Mandy

McGill

Clinton Elem

amandam @ blackfoot.net

Martin

Horejsi

University of Montana

martin.horejsi @ mso.umt.edu

Maureen

Jones

Superior Public Schools

mjones @ sd3.k12.mt.us

Michael

Hall

OPI

 

Rachal

Edwards

Blackfoot SD

rachale @ blackfoot.net

Sandy

Revier

Blackfoot SD

srevier @ blackfoot.net

Sheryl

Kohl

Poplar Elem

dskohl @ nemontel.net

Terri

Barclay

St Regis K-12 Schools

terrib @ stregis.k12.mt.us

Wendy

Smith

Medicine Lake K-12 Schools

wsmith @ nemont.net

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Google Search Tools/Strategies

There are three new ways that you can view search results from Google.

Info View
Timeline View
Map View

To use these tools, simply enter your seach terms and then follow them with one of the following:

view:info
view:timeline
view:map

Select one of the above options. What are the pros/cons of viewing your results in this way? What worked/didn't work?

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Videos

Summary of Grassroots:
Working in small groups, students use the Internet and other resources to research an aspect of history that illustrates rights and responsibilities, including historical events, issues and ideas, and the people involved. Students use both primary and secondary sources and learn how to properly cite sources. One example would be to research the treatment of females in China over the last half century. Groups write a draft documentary script that captures important elements of the historical time period, then use a digital video camera to film footage for the project. They also locate appropriate music and images, scanning images from books or downloading them from the Internet, and taking photos with a digital still camera. Students import all images into iPhoto and import music into iTunes. They then work in iMovie to create their documentary. They import video clips and images, record narration, and add music, titles, effects, and transitions. Students can export the completed movies to QuickTime and burn them on a CD, export them to videotape, or use iDVD software and a SuperDrive to include them on a DVD. The finished iMovie projects are shared with the class.


Value:
You can talk about concepts and ideas with kids will grasp it if they�re interested. However, when kids learn by building and taking ownership of the information they are more apt to learn and remember. The buy-in is there from the students. If the kids were asked to write about the same topic there wouldn�t be the same pride and ownership as when they build visual projects. This project provides a vehicle for long-term learning�a means for getting information to long-term memory. Having a visual final product provides students an audience that they want to perform for.

Connection to the Nets:
Nets 1
� Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. (a-d are all applicable)
Nets 6
Using all (a-d); The students are definitely developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others.

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Videos

Summary of Grassroots:
Working in small groups, students use the Internet and other resources to research an aspect of history that illustrates rights and responsibilities, including historical events, issues and ideas, and the people involved. Students use both primary and secondary sources and learn how to properly cite sources. One example would be to research the treatment of females in China over the last half century. Groups write a draft documentary script that captures important elements of the historical time period, then use a digital video camera to film footage for the project. They also locate appropriate music and images, scanning images from books or downloading them from the Internet, and taking photos with a digital still camera. Students import all images into iPhoto and import music into iTunes. They then work in iMovie to create their documentary. They import video clips and images, record narration, and add music, titles, effects, and transitions. Students can export the completed movies to QuickTime and burn them on a CD, export them to videotape, or use iDVD software and a SuperDrive to include them on a DVD. The finished iMovie projects are shared with the class.


Value:
You can talk about concepts and ideas with kids will grasp it if they�re interested. However, when kids learn by building and taking ownership of the information they are more apt to learn and remember. The buy-in is there from the students. If the kids were asked to write about the same topic there wouldn�t be the same pride and ownership as when they build visual projects. This project provides a vehicle for long-term learning�a means for getting information to long-term memory.

Connection to the Nets:
Nets 1
� Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. (a-d are all applicable)
Nets 6
Using all (a-d); The students are definitely developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others.

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Rock Our World

www.rockourworld.org

Rock our World is a global collaberative classroom project. The project is sent around the world to different countries where they add different elements to contribute to the end result.

Value: It is the global classroom teaching diversity and critical thinking. Students are using many technology systems, videos, music, writing, etc. Students learn to be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.

Daisy, Denise, Jennifer H, Maureen, Jennifer A, and Mandy

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Voices of the Sixties and The Secret Life of Bees

Secret Life of Bees
This was a literature blog looking at this novel. Students would be utilizing blogging and scanning tech skills. The students had posted original artwork and posting analysis and comments on the literary elements of the book. Students could communicate with others and share their responses to the book. Students also could interview the author. This was an in-depth focus on sharing their critical analysis of the book and sharing with a wider audience.

Voices of the Sixties

This blog is a collection of stories of Vietnam soldiers from a small town in Oregon. This project included many different levels of creative opportunity. Students were researching, writing letters, producing videos, public speaking, and interviewing. This project gave the students investment in thier work and relevance in the project. Students had to use many NETS standards- blogging skills, practice video editing, using images in a purposeful way, and creating a message with a variety of media.
In looking at both of these projects- we discussed the process of applying these tech skills and really critically looking at the quality and message of what information is being shared in all the ways of communication.

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summarizing podcasting

This is a tool that has a potential in the classroom. A new presentation format that would allow students to express their ideas. Students are still reporting and researching, this provides a new venue to these standards and incorporating them into a curriculum. Engagement to the authors is an important feature. It provides public speaking practice and profection. Audacity, a free download, allows editing tools, Gabfest allows instant recording. Comfort levels of teaching and student skills will blend to add to the projects.

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Nets 1 and 6 and 21st

Net 1 - Understanding and using applications productively, identify the problems, moving forward, to transfer current knowledge to new possibilities.
Net 6 - Acting on creative ideas, demonstrating originality, developing and implementing and communicating new ideas to others and being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
21st century - Demonstrate an original and inventive work by developing, implementing and communicating these ideas in an open, responsive and diverse manner which will produce creative and useful contributions to society.

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Standards 1 and 6

Students use appropriate technology tools to share the new knowledge they develop through creative and inquiry process. Download file

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One sentence summary

Think outside box, create outside the box using technology, provide the tools to create, and summarize and share what you did outside the box.

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One sentence summary

Think outside box, create outside the box using technology, provide the tools to create, and summarize and share what you did outside the box.

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TED.com The greatest site on the net.

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NETS 1 and 6 Activity

8:30am Welcome and Video Teaser
Chocolate: the 2006 movie about child slave labor on the Ivory Coast (fast forward to 4:33)

  • How can technology enable creativity and innovation?
  • What support structures need to be in place to support creativity and innovation?
  • When have you had a chance to be creative or innovative?
  • [PD Strategies: Quiet Reflection & Talking Chips]

8:50am The Medici Effect (Website)

  • What does it mean to be creative or innovative?
  • How are the terms different?
  • The Medici Effect examples
  • [PD Strategies: Think-Pair-Share & Different Colored Cards]

9:20am Unveiling the NETS and Learning and Innovation Skills
[PD Strategies: Music/Sound Cues; How Many Fingers Time Check]

9:35am Creative and Innovative Projects
[PD Strategies: Four Corners]
Category #1: Podcasting - Radio WillowWeb and Our City

Structures for Success:

Category #2: Cross Cultural Collaboration - Rock Our World (ROW)
ROW Projects (year 3 has Music)
Structures for Success:

Category #3: Blog Projects
Voices of the Sixties and Secret Life of Bees
Structures for Success:

Category #4: Digital Stories told through Movie Projects

Structures for Success:

  • Associated lesson plans (available for Grass and Labor videos)

Creative and Innovative Projects (activity handout)

10:20am Four Corners Report Out
As a group, post a single comment summarizing the project, its value, and the connection to NETS and Learning and Innovation Skills.

10:30-11:50am Personal Connections
Create a presentation (the format is up to you) that you can use with your staff when you return to your district that will help them understand NETS 1 & 6 and the Learning and Innovation Skills.

Sample Presentation, 3 Steps

The presentation should:

  • clearly demonstrate what it looks like when students are achieving NETS #1 and 6.
  • contain a commitment to "next steps" -- what you need in order to help your teachers create classroom activities for students that address NETS #1 and 6.

11:50-12:00am Gallery Walk

12:00-12:15am PD Strategies and Resources Recap


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December 7, 2007 06:46 PM

Kansas Students Say.....

Join the conversation

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CampFireNow

This is a great way to collaborate on projects with other classrooms or schools. The 21st Century Learning and Innovation Skills that could be covered by this tool are:
Creativity and Innovation #2,#3
Communication and Collaboration #1,#2,#3,#4
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving #4
The NETS that we feel are being met are:
Creativity and Innovation #2
Communication and Collaboration #1,#4
Research and Information Fluency #1
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision-Making #2
Digital Citizenship #2

You have to have an email address, for free it only allows four chatters at one time but you can upgrade for $'s, and you can have different rooms (more research needs to be done to see if it will allow more than four chatters if they are using different rooms).


http://msphillipsroom.campfirenow.com/

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Flektor dot com

www.flektor.com is a web 2.0 tool for making slideshows, polls, postcards, quizes, and videos to post on your blog, facebook, or other places. You can upload your own pictures, select from canned themes (very good ones for slideshows, pretty limited for postcards), and put music from your hard drive behind. You can also crop and edit your pictures from within the program. Sharing includes get the code, email, instant messenger, myspace, facebook, ebay, blogger, black planet, word press, and live journal. Directions are very clear for each one. Polldaddy is probably better for polls.

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MapWing

Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world. This tool can be used to make a tour of places as well as for concepts like digestion. It would be a nice add on to a Community Walk, if possible. It could be used to tell a story that travels.

See an example of a Helena Map we created at: http://www.mapwing.com/explore/view_tour.php?t=UUC4X4X4pUXnX8n

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Twitter

What can we say about Twitter? It could be a very useful application. It has great potential if you have the patience to set it all up. All followers of the text (IMs or phone text messages) need to have one of three types of accounts (yahoo, gmail, or hotmail). Once you have an account, you can add followers. It takes some time to navigate through the site to figure out how to add followers.
Now that you have followers added, any time you send one a message, they all see it! It's that simple. So, when you send a text message from your phone, all following that IM will be able to see what was sent.

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OurStory.com


Start your own timeline at OurStory.com

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flickr visual story




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xtimeline

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Zotero: Research File management tool

Our tool is Zotero covers the NETS Standard is #3 Research and Information fluency

21st Century Skill Communication and Collaboration
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No project was made. It is really an extensive file management tool for research and/or collaborative projects. Can only be used on Firefox. It is an extension of Firefox.
The ways it can be used: saves searches from libraries, keep folders, take notes on articles, have the article available itself and use sticky notes, word doc and will cite it correctly using APA, MLA or others. Capture feature in databases, newspapers, and libraries. In the collections you can write notes, save the articles, and tags are made automatically from library searches.
File management is done for you, files can be shared too. A three column window shows folders, files and word document with highlights. Files, webpage or original document can appear within this tool, after all are saved. Citations are extracted from the article.
Web pages can archived as well.
I hope this description helps. Download the tour and listen to the powerful tools it offers. zotero.org

Maureen and Georgia

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xtimeline

This tool meets the NETS standards in a variety of ways. Students are communicating and collaborating as well as using innovation in developing timelines on any number of topics. It is an easy to use tool and uses images, writing and direct links to sources.

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adults = children

I like what we have learned and experienced, partly because it works, and partly because it works on students. the use of hand signals is something i have seen before, but not tried. i will be trying this on Monday morning. I like the use of fingers to find a partner. Too often my students pair up with the same person, and they never get a chance to work with other students. The quiet students never have a voice and I want them to have a voice. I also liked the use of the timer, I often let activities go too long, a timer is an interesting way to limit activities. I appreciate being here and seeing and experiencing these actvities. If they work on me, the will work on my students.
Chris

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Professional Development Strategies

The best part of coming to the Cadre meetings (besides seeing Jennifer!) is all of the great things we learn about presentation techniques. As Georgia pointed out, everything we do throughout the training is community building. I appreciate how the strategies address all types of learners. The structured directions make a lot of sense to me. I love how you provide us a time a means to process what we're learning so we can remember them by the time we return to our schools!

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Exciting Times for Technology

I am very pleased to be able to join this group today and tomorrow. The great strategies and tools that you are learning about will serve you and your students well as we revise the Technology and Library Media Content Standards and Performance Descriptors in 2008. The NETS for Students and new AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners will be foundational documents the writing teams will consider. The integration of technology with the information literacy skills is a major goal as writing teams are formed and begin their work in January.

I will be looking to you as leaders in effectively modeling these awesome tools and strategies.

Colet :)

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Presentation stadegies that work well for students also work well for adults. It has been a good reminder for me to keep the directions specific and find ways to involve all of the students in our classroom. Engaging their brains in different ways will help their undertanding.

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Reflection of Strategies

In the last hour, we have been given a wealth of strategies to use when leading staff developoment and classroom discussions/learning. Managing how the information is shared in order to maximize the time is important. If the timer is set the participants get busy and stick to the task at hand. Having the rally robin keeps the spotlight off the person who tends to do all the talking and shares it with those that usually don't like to share. Giving a visual response or creating a memory response helps keep the group organized and staying focused on the presenter. For me the most important idea shared was to be positive while presenting and the group you are presenting to will be positive in return . . .and hopefully return after break!

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First Hour Friday

We learned many new tools to use with our students in the classroom to improve strenghtend their memory of topics and to keep energy levels up. Using the on-line stop watch you give kids specific time to get through information. You also set a certain time for each partner to make sure that all students are sharing their information. Getting kids up and moving around on a regular basis keeps their energy levels up. Keeps the brain functioning and moving around instead of hitting a lull. I also think it is a great idea to get kids working with new people instead of always talking with their friends - moves us out of our comfort level in a positive way. Constant repetition with either writing it or saying it stores it into your long term memory, so you have a better chance of remembering it.

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Notes on MT Cadre Dec 7-8, 2007

Kagen strategies lessen the gap b/t black and white.
The stop watch helps keep things moving and prevents monopolization
by dominant people.
Structured directions with unstructured environments work well.
Never allow enough time.

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Dean's Reflections

Well, once again, I had trouble getting into the blog...so I learned to change my password to one that I can remember...soo that is what I learned.
On teaching strategies, I like the movement created by the shoulder buddies...movement in the middle school level for the students is very important... not only for learning and stimulation for the students, but also a great classroom management tool.

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Great Ideas

All these strategies were excellent and applicablen not only to staff development, but also for invigorating classrooms. I will certainly use the meeting strategy and the rapid fire strategy with my junior and seniors.

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Communication

Ways to manage sharing of information is an important skill that many people do not think much about. These tools are are vital to model for students. I like the short timed responses this forces students to come to the point and keeps them on task. The movement and discussion with different people teaches communication skills and how to converse with a variety of people. The Rally Robins are a great tool that keep everyone on task, and allows people to feel safe and comfortable with each other.

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Georgia's Reflections...so far

I am thinking I really need to use many of these techniques with my students. I really like the "thanks and praise." At the end of term we all need it, but throughout the term as well!
I use think, pair, share a great deal, but stand up, hand up and pair up is more active and they can move a bit in my long class.

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implementing teaching strategies

Since the last Cadre meeting, I implemented two things: playing music to get motivation going and the three-tier grouping of learner pacing (sloth, puppy, roadrunner). I printed out the pictures and placed them in different sections in the computer lab. Teachers moved to where they considered themselves as learners of technology. It was very interesting. There were many roadrunners, some puppiess, and only one sloth. The staff enjoyed these activities.

I plan on using the strategies I learned today with my staff in future trainings. They help me with my presentation skills

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reflections on this hour

I use a great deal of the "Round Robin" activities with my students. I have learned to allow my students to move around freely unless they need to listen to directions. We use a universal signal for quiet and attention--hands on head--removes their hands from the keyboards and pencil.

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3600 Seconds of Joy

Speaking for myself, but I suspect I'm not alone here, I feel that my passive, restrained and stoic personality has made dramatic strides in outward gestures I would normally refrain from in public. However, my desire to participate with such a tech savvy group has helped me overcome my inhibitions and feel comfortable walking, talking, and typing in public.

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Friday afternoon

What did I learn? What can I use on Monday?
I thought again about how to get students active while learning. About having them report out to partners, about getting them to work with people different than their usual.

I really like Round Rally and think I can use that to share ideas, report out information and understandings.

Cathy

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First Activity

Our first activity was engaging. We moved around, paired, shared, and learned. We talked about the various ways we have used the NETS or the Century 21 standards since our last meeting. We also refreshed ourselves on a list of the Web2.0 applications we've tried since then. Which were successful, which had limitations, which we'll continue using.
If I were to teach tomorrow, I'd love to teach several of the Web2.0 applications such as Voki, ToonDoo, and Slide.com's applications.

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PowerPointlessness

Christian Long popular edublogger gives his thoughts about how teachers use powerpoint. Great food for thought. I Can See Clearly Now (And I'm Smiling)

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I AM GLAD YOU ARE HERE!

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