10 PowerPoint alternatives that make meetings fun
1. PreZentit With PreZentit, all you need is a Web browser to create a presentation with its own URL. You can download the presentation for display without an Internet connection. It has limited functions, but the ease of use makes it worth a try for on-the-spot pitches. 2. Convert your PowerPoint for the Web or create a presentation right within your browser. 3. Anyone with a Google account can create presentations right inside Google Docs. 4. Sorry PCs, but this one is limited to Mac users. 5. Brainshark—along with its mobile app, Slideshark—essentially converts your existing PowerPoint presentation to an online video. 6. Vuvox lets you blend pictures, audio, video, and text to create personalized stories, not just presentations. 7. Turn your PowerPoint into a screencast and reach beyond the conference table. 8. Flair is definitely not free, but it enables you to build exciting Flash-based presentations without knowing a lick of Flash. 9. 10. (Image via, via & via)
How to Give a Killer Presentation
A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the edge of a vast national park, and one of the biggest challenges is protecting the animals from lions—especially at night. Richard had noticed that placing lamps in a field didn’t deter lion attacks, but when he walked the field with a torch, the lions stayed away. The story was inspiring and worthy of the broader audience that our TED conference could offer, but on the surface, Richard seemed an unlikely candidate to give a TED Talk. But Richard’s story was so compelling that we invited him to speak. Since the first TED conference, 30 years ago, speakers have run the gamut from political figures, musicians, and TV personalities who are completely at ease before a crowd to lesser-known academics, scientists, and writers—some of whom feel deeply uncomfortable giving presentations.
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Chris Anderson shares his tips for giving a killer presentation
Watching curator Chris Anderson in speaker rehearsals before a TED conference feels like witnessing the zen of a longtime coach who knows his sport both inside out and backwards. Whenever a trial run of a talk feels just a little askew, a few simple sentences are whispered. Magically, the next time the talk is given publicly, it is mesmerizing — and without a hint that it was ever anything but. In a new essay in The Harvard Business Review’s June issue, Anderson shares his fine-tuned advice for delivering a powerful talk. A few choice tidbits: “We all know that humans are wired to listen to stories, and metaphors abound for the narrative structures that work best to engage people. “Many of our best and most popular TED Talks have been memorized word for word … Most people go through what I call the ‘valley of awkwardness,’ where they haven’t quite memorized the talk. “Perhaps the most important physical act onstage is making eye contact.
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CCSS Instructional Practice Guides
Common Core practice made clear These tools provide specific guidance for what the CCSS for ELA/Literacy and Mathematics look like in daily planning and practice. They are designed as developmental tools for teachers and those who support teachers. Use the Daily Instructional Practice Guides for: Teacher self-reflectionPeer-to-peer observation and feedbackInstructional coaching The Supplement for Reflection Over the Course of the Year Guides can be used to facilitate planning and review practice over a semester or year. Both the Daily and Over the Course of the Year Guides are available below. ELA / Literacy Daily Guides K-2 ELA / Literacy Support for this guide, including the Over the Course of the Year Supplement, can be accessed here. Go to Resource 3-5 ELA / Literacy Support for this guide, including the Over the Course of the Year Supplement, can be accessed here. Go to Resource Support for this guide, including the Over the Course of the Year Supplement, can be accessed here. Go to Resource
Using the Asset Inventory: A Process Learning Circle Approach
This set of resources applies the Process Learning Circle (PrLCs) strategy to the task of interpreting and using the results from the NCLE Asset Inventory. By connecting PrLCs (process) to the data resulting from the Asset Inventory (content), we hope to support learning communities in developing the qualities of effective collaboration, as described in the Framework for Capacity Building (e.g., deprivatizing practice, shared agreements, collaborative culture, inquiry stance, using evidence, and systemic support). This strategy can be used with many sizes of groups (i.e., grade level/department team, staff). For large groups, we suggest dividing into groups of 5-6 people. PrLCs are a way to build and sustain powerful learning communities. PrLCs are a learning process contained in a flexible four-phase structure. Although most powerful when used together, the phases can function separately. IMPORTANT: The Asset Inventory and PrLCs are designed to support self-evaluation and learning.
