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=Topic 3: February 11 - March 3, 2011 = =Presentation Editors, Screen Casting, Voice Thread = ====**Presentation Editors**: A recent trend in cloud computing includes the collaborative online creation of presentations. There are many online presentation creators, some that are similar to PowerPoint, and some that are very different. Many can now be embedded directly into learning management systems using "Embed Code".==== ====**Screen Casting**: As podcasting has taken off, there are now many ways to record your screen with your voice in order to create your own "screen cast" to share with students. Some teachers use Screen Casting for pre-learning homework, while others have students create their own screen casts as a course project.==== ====**VoiceThread**: Popular for language courses where speaking is an essential element of the course, voice thread technology allows students to record their voices outside of class so that a teacher can listen and reply to student's posts. This creates a new kind of oral assessment where students, who might be otherwise too shy to speak in class, can practice and become more confident in private. It also allows the teacher to listen to a student's recording at their leisure, rather than having to meet.====

Take 5 minutes each day learn about one or more of these Presentation Creation programs. ====Contribute one thing to the Wiki's content each week, a one sentence comment, a link, an image, a discussion post, etc. Click Here if you can't remember how to make changes to the page.====

Presentation Sites:
[|Prezi] [|Google Docs] [|SlideRocket] [|SlideShare] [|ZohoShow]

===Creating an effective presentation, while not about the "tool" per se, is an important topic. [|Duarte Design] is a company with a fabulous blog on presentation design. I recommend the Duarte's book "[|Slide:ology]" to anyone interested in creating presentations.===

ScreenCasting Sites:
[|ScreenCast] [|Jing] [|CamStudio] [|Kahn Academy]

VoiceThread Sites:
[|VoiceThread] [|AudioBoo]