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5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider. More and more word processing is moving to the web these days.

5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider

This has many advantages. The documents are accessible from anywhere, they’re open to collaboration and sharing, it’s easy to import and export, and it’s just a better way to do work in this constantly connected world. For a while, one of the most popular solutions has been Google Docs. It’s a great service, and one that has served me well over the months and years I’ve been using it. Hate PowerPoint? Here Are 5 Web-based Alternatives. Whether they're for clients, customers or colleagues, visual presentations are an unavoidable part of doing business.

Hate PowerPoint? Here Are 5 Web-based Alternatives

For years, Microsoft PowerPoint has been the standard bearer of slide presentation applications, but several Web-based alternatives have emerged. For the most part, the alternatives offer similar functionality to PowerPoint, sometimes more, sometimes less. One obvious advantage to Web-based presentations is that they're stored in the cloud, eliminating the potential for nightmare scenarios involving lost or corrupted thumb drives. Prezi If the traditional slide-by-slide-style presentation doesn't quite cut it for you, there's Prezi, which works a bit more like one giant virtual whiteboard containing your entire presentation. E-Portfolios Across the Educational Landscape: From K-12 to Doctoral Studies. 17 Interesting Ways to use Prezi in the Classroom. Manual. Download a Portable Prezi for presenting. A portable prezi is a non-editable, exported version of your prezi and works without Internet access or a Prezi account.

Download a Portable Prezi for presenting

Use it to present when you don't have access to the Internet or to send to conference organizers. Check out the video to learn how you can download a portable prezi. Home - FolioSpaces free ePortfolios - school - college - university - business - students - professionals - lifelong learners. E-Portfolios for Learning. ePortfolios with GoogleApps. Digitalstorytales. Creating Digital Tales in the Classroom - a learning module for teaching professionals.

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This learning module begins May 1st and ends May 31, 2011. 30 points/30 prof development hours. Module Overview: "Digital Stories are short, personal, multimedia tales, told from the heart. Anyone can make them and publish them on screens anywhere. They have the potential to be a very democratic kind of storytelling. " Project-based multi-media learning allows student to acquire new skills and knowledge by designing, planning and producing a product or performance. This module will allow you to explore more deeply the justification for digital storytelling and opportunities with this type of project based learning.

Finally, you will be able to create your own digital story, as a sound foundation for providing an example to your students and building your confidence in facilitating this project in your classroom! MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. MindMeister. Glogster: make a poster online. It's free! 1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - Getting Started with Glogster EDU. 1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - Photo Story. WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here. Quotepad - free notepad that can save the text selected on the screen.

Redirecting. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Technology in Education - LiveBinder. Collect, curate and share your ideas, inspirations, and projects! Compiled List of The Top Online Presentation Tools and Apps Today. Presentations are essential in business, and if only we had online alternatives to Microsoft Powerpoint then everything would be so much more convenient.

Compiled List of The Top Online Presentation Tools and Apps Today

There’d be no need to work offline, save and copy from one disk to another, and download impossibly-sized attachments. All we’d ever need is an Internet connection and a browser. Guess what? Lakeshore Branding has compiled a list of today’s best online presentation tools and applications. That way, we can take the desktop experience anywhere we go and showcase our fancy presentations on the Web. AuthorStream: AuthorStream allows you to do more with your Powerpoint presentations. BrinkPad: BrinkPad is a simple Java-based presentation tool for creating presentations and drawings. Empressr: Empressr is called “the world’s first free online storytelling tool”, with which you can tell your story and create your presentation any way you like.

Google Docs: Google Docs is one of today’s most popular productivity suites. Online Presentation Software. Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom. The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education.

Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom

In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well. Learn what electronic portfolios are and discover how they can help you and benefit your students. Included: Guidelines for developing personal portfolios. "A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work demonstrating the student's achievement or growth as characterized by a strong vision of content," according to Todd Bergman , an independent consultant and a teacher at Mt. Helen Barrett, an assistant professor and educational technology coordinator for the School of Education at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, provides another definition, one developed by the Northwest Evaluation Association: