Dummies Guide and Books for powerpoint
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Muscatine School District helps those who need extra help
Muscatine Journal Collinson, the district's director of special programs, delivered a fast-paced 90-slide PowerPoint presentation on everything from special education and preschool education to homelessness — even allowing 15 minutes for questions afterward. n At risk … |
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Action teams tackle St. Paul achievement gap, recommend other big changes at SPPS
Twin Cities Planet Slide is one of a series of recommendations from nine District Action Teams — see pdf at end of article for full PowerPoint presentation. By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet Saint Paul Public Schools must “commit to dismantling the effects of racism and … |
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Software promises access for the blind and the deaf
TVNZ It includes subtitles added to Powerpoint presentations, for those with hearing difficulties, and the option for saving files as a Braille-reading format for those who are blind. Rachel Turney, Microsoft New Zealand Marketing Manager, told TV ONE 's … Microsoft commits to improving NZ accessibility |
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Channahon Junior High Teacher Catherine Tonelli: Students Make Video Reports
Patch.com Catherine Tonelli extends her Language Arts teaching beyond the printed word to video and PowerPoint, and a recent unit on the Salem Witch Trials brought an outpouring of students' creative video work. Tonelli is a seventh grade Language Arts teacher … |
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Downtown Easton property owners speak loud and clear: No NID
The Express Times – LehighValleyLive.com By Edward Sieger | The Express-Times Express-Times Photo | JIM MIDDLEKAUFFDonna Taggart ,of New City America East, gives a PowerPoint presentation on the proposed Neighborhood Improvement District in June. The plan will not go through. … |
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Focus on the Listeners' Needs, Says New Book for Presenters
PR Web (press release) “Stop Being Predictable: 14 Tactics that Will Make Your Presentations Insanely Effective” makes it easy for presenters to try something new, get away from boring PowerPoint presentations and achieve improved success. Author Bob Boylan knows these … |
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Death by Powerpoint
Business Green (blog) Runner up for this award is the perennial favourite Powerpoint. Death by Powerpoint comes in many forms, but the worst is when companies can't stop telling you how brilliant they are. Listening along, you would think that either the sustainability … |
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Is PowerPoint the new 'chalk and talk'?
Times Educational Supplement The images only make a bit more sense a few seconds later when the presentation's title fades in: “Can we stop PowerPoint turning the clock back on schools?” The next slide shows a sepia photo of a classroom, taken at least a century ago, … |
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PowerPoint Alternative Closes $14 Million Funding
Wall Street Journal (blog) By Ben Rooney If you have ever sat through a death-by-PowerPoint presentation (once described by commentator Michael Bywater as “the most loathsome, vicious and immoral piece of software ever produced.”) then it will warm your heart to hear that there … Prezi lands $14 million to save us from death by Powerpoint Prezi zooms forward with $14m from Accel Prezi Announces $14M Series B Funding; Adoption of Zooming Presentation … |
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Australian Smart GPO Power Point Could Save $5 Per Week In Electricity
Gizmodo Australia Taking out top gong was Jeremy Woodhill with his Smart GPO, an intelligent power point that can save households up to $5 a week with no effort whatsoever. The Smart GPOs are small, remote controlled switches embedded in a power point, … |