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PechaKucha 20x20. 8 (free) websites to create cool student projects online. Creating an online project is a great way to help students to demonstrate that they have learned something.

8 (free) websites to create cool student projects online

Below you will find 8 websites that offer great options for any teacher and all are free to use. The first five have screenshots of examples that I created. Fake Movie Poster Creating a movie poster is a great school project. With this simple website, the task is that much easier. Students simply upload an image, add a few details for the text and then share their completed poster with the teacher. Preso.tv. How to Use Paper for Presentations — The Open Studio: A Blog by FiftyThree. 19 Reasons You Should Include Visual Content in Your Marketing [Data] Pretty pictures are the best.

19 Reasons You Should Include Visual Content in Your Marketing [Data]

But you know who likes them even more than your readers, leads, and customers? Marketers. Well they should, anyway, because marketers who are embracing visual content are seeing huge returns in terms of, well, more readers, leads, and customers. Oh, also revenue. Not a bad setup. Whether you're already a champion of visual content and just want a little affirmation, or you're interested in dipping your toes into the burgeoning visual content space, these 19 statistics should help you make the case for doing just that. 1) 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text. 2) 40% of people will respond better to visual information than plain text.

Why You Need to be Boring. Look around you.

Why You Need to be Boring

Most of today’s top presenters and entertainers are boring people with predictable schedules and habits: -George Carlin was obsessed about not repeating the same joke -Jerry Seinfeld practiced his first Tonight Show bit 200 times. 10 Fantastic Educational Podcasts. 1.

10 Fantastic Educational Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know The spin-off podcast from the incredibly successful ‘How Stuff Works’ website, this brilliant series entertains and instructs students with straightforward explanations of concepts. 8 Tips to Power-Up Your Classroom Presentations. Last month, I attended a Back to School Night for parents, sitting through presentation after presentation by teachers, some with slides that helped make their presentation a delight to listen to, and others . . . well, that's why I'm writing this blog post.

8 Tips to Power-Up Your Classroom Presentations

The goal of a classroom presentation is to aid you in effectively conveying information in a way that allows students (or their parents) to remember what you said. Unfortunately, for some, the presentation becomes a crutch, and they begin to rely on the slides to tell their story, rather than to help them tell the story. I've been creating presentations using software like PowerPoint and KeyNote for 20 years, and I've learned a lot about how to most effectively communicate. 11 Things To NEVER Say In A Presentation by @XCamilleWong. How to rock a presentation when you can't see your audience. Giving a webinar or remote presentation?

How to rock a presentation when you can't see your audience

These tips will help you engage your audience even when they're halfway around the world. In this guest post, James White, Managing Director of Media First Ltd, explores how to connect with your audience when delivering web, video or online presentations. These days more and more of us are finding ourselves presenting to people that we can’t see. Webinars, online presentations and sharing ideas and information on the internet are becoming increasingly popular. The advantages of remote presentations are obvious – you can talk to far more people than you could ever gather in a single room, and your audience can view and download your presentation long after you’ve finished giving it. Giving Presentations. Creating Session Titles BLM. Amazon.com: How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks (How to Give a TED Talk Book 2) eBook: Akash Karia: Kindle Store. Amazon.com: Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds eBook: Carmine Gallo: Kindle Store.

Conference Centers - Meeting Facilities - Meeting Venues - International Association of Conference Centres. U.S. Government Photos and Images. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Visualbee - change your ppt into dazzling ... Online Presentation Tools. HelloSlide - Bring your slides to life. Brainstorming Session Success - 21 Brainstorming Techniques. Reviewing Brainzooming Google Analytics for the past month, the most frequent search term people are using to find the Brainzooming blog is “brainstorming.”

Brainstorming Session Success - 21 Brainstorming Techniques

These Google Analytics results prompted me to share a variety of Brainzooming posts related to brainstorming techniques on Twitter last Saturday. Because of this, here are the brainstorming techniques shared on Twitter plus a few other posts on various related aspects, many of them tied to the Google Fiber brainstorming sessions we conducted in October 2011: Brainstorming Session Expectations. Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil. PowerPoint Is Evil Power Corrupts.PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.

Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil

By Edward Tufte Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall. Yet slideware -computer programs for presentations -is everywhere: in corporate America, in government bureaucracies, even in our schools. Of course, data-driven meetings are nothing new. Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. In a business setting, a PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words, which is about eight seconds' worth of silent reading material.

PresentationTube. SlideShare Review - Online Presentation Sharing Website.