Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration In Project Based Learning. Welcome to the second in a series of PBL Mania Posts.
For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online and giving a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some outstanding collaboration tools found on the web that can be used in the PBL classroom. Before reading please take a moment to subscribe to this 21centuryedtech Blog by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. You will not want to miss this series or future posts involving STEM, Flipping the Classroom, Technology Integration, Common Core, and 21st Century Skills, So Sign Up Now!
As always… thanks and have a great week. - Mike Gorman (21centuryedtech) Free online OCR. How to create pop-up Windows with Powerpoint. PowerPoint can be used to create all sort of presentations, this also includes interactive presentations in which we want the user to click images or rollover a certain image and then we want some image or an information box to pop out.
Today we are going to show you how to create a presentation with popup windows so you can get interactive presentations. We can do these sorts of animations by using triggers. Triggers are a type of animation which turns objects into clickable buttons or action buttons. First we need to go to the Animation Tab and create a Custom Animation. Then we select the object we want to pop-up and choose an entrance Effect (Zoom is quite the best option).
Teachit Timer. The Printliminator. The Printliminator (repo) is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better.
One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet: