Ovation turns lifeless PowerPoint slides into a stunning visual experience in seconds. Sensational themes called PowerLooks add subtle motion, high-resolution text, and dynamic TV-style transitions to plain PowerPoint slides. Ovation also offers built-in presentation tools that help you deliver a superior message…
Windows only
15 day trial
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If you have ever wanted to create an interactive timeline for your students to use and reference, TimeToast might be for you.
This free online app allows you to easily create and share your timeline data. Once the timeline has been created, students can click on a data to see the significance of that event. If they click the more info (+) button, the listing will expand to reveal photos or any other additional information you have provided.
To find out more, check out TimeToast.com
Try ICONLOOK
This site will find most any icon you might need for your desktop or web site. Be sure to see the Tag Cloud.
Have you ever needed to get pictures or a movie you’ve imported into a PowerPoint back out to use in another presentation or on a web page? I might have an easier way when copy-and-paste just won’t cut it.
Apple’s Keynote.
Open the PowerPoint presentation in Apple’s Keynote application. When you save the newly converted Keynote presentation, all the assets get bundled with the presentation. Just right click on the file and choose “Show Package Contents.” You will see all of the images and other media files from your presentation. You can now open the files in Photoshop to edit, reuse them in another presentation, or even post them on a web page.
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
For Christy LaBadie, a sophomore at Northampton Community College, the 30-minute drive from her home to the Bethlehem, Pa., campus has become a financial hardship now that gasoline prices have soared to more than $4 a gallon. So this semester she decided to take an online course to save herself the trip ???and the money.
“I would prefer to actually go to school and be there to do it,” says Ms. LaBadie, a single mother working toward a degree in medical administration. “But it’s hard enough paying tuition, much less the price of gas.”
Students around the country are echoing Ms. LaBadie’s complaint, and online education is booming as a result. Many institutions say their online summer enrollments have jumped significantly, compared with last summer’s, and that fuel prices are a key factor in the increase.
The Tennessee Board of Regents, for instance, reports that summer enrollment in online courses is up 29 percent this summer over last year. At Brevard Community College, in Cocoa, Fla., summer enrollment in online courses is up nearly 25 percent. Harrisburg Area Community College, in Pennsylvania, saw its summer online enrollment rise 15 percent to 20 percent. At Northampton summer online enrollment is up 18 percent.
Read the whole article: Gas Prices & Online Courses
This post from NPR
Weekend Edition Sunday, May 6, 2007 – Donald McCabe talks to Liane Hansen about cheating among graduate students in the United States. He is a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University.
Check out the Awesome Highlighter, a simple Web service that will allow you to highlight content on web pages and create a link to share those highlighted pages with your students, colleagues, or friends. It works. And, there’s even a handy Firefox add-on. To get started go to The Awesome Highlighter.
Here’s a quick sample: http://awurl.com/eoqvhg91458.
This nifty free tool could allow mathematician, statisticians, engineers, etc. to present and solve equations online while explaining the process to students.
A new site called Sketchcast launched last year – it’s a tool for bloggers and others to create a presentation to express an idea using a sketchpad and (optionally) a sound recording, and then embed it into a website. Sketchcasts can also be subscribed in iTunes and RSS readers via a feed.
Just for fun…
Liberty Fillmore – The Shopping Cart Whisperer
. . . everywhere I go, I see shopping carts tossed aside. Cast off. Abandoned. In super-value-store parking lots. And, more and more, on the interweb which is online. People say, “I’m all gonna fill up my shopping cart with things,” and then before they hit the BUY button, they say, “Oh, I don’t feel secure. I ain’t buying this stuff here.”
Well, boo hoo, cowards. How do you think that cart feels? Left there, full up and then abandoned before she can fulfill her cartly duties? Well, that’s why I rescue abandoned carts. And why I welcome the support of VeriSign and their EV SSL Product Thing. Join our ranks, and put your cart abandonment issues to rest.
