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7 Tips to Beautiful PowerPoint by @itseugenec

Short talk about presentations given at Startup Dynamo, a workshop held by Startup@Singapore NUS using the Learn Startup Methodology. My segment was on Present

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Some good tips, but some slides are quite busy. Less is more when it comes to PowerPoint. 

Sandra Carswell's curator insight, February 26, 10:36 PM

Teachers and adults need to heed this advice. 

Elaine Melinda Steyn's curator insight, March 17, 7:19 AM

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5 killer ways to open up your next presentation

Did you know modern statistics state that you have 60 seconds or less to capture your audience’s attention? You’ve might have heard it before, but maybe not

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Janet Ilko's curator insight, Today, 10:30 AM

Just posted this on my student webpage to help students as we write our promotion speeches.

Tysa Fennern's curator insight, Today, 2:35 PM

Great template for keeping presentations simple, engaging, and relevant.

Raquel Oliveira's comment, Today, 8:46 PM
Love the info graphics !
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Visually Curate Your Digital Magazine or Product Showcase with Clipzine

Visually Curate Your Digital Magazine or Product Showcase with Clipzine | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
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Clipzine is a web app which makes it easy to collect images from any website page and to visually organize them into page-based collections.

On each page it is possible to place as many as 24 pieces of content and to decide how large or small each element will be. The user can expand each imported element over two or more tiles and move it around to any position.

 

It is also possible to use one or more tiles to add custom text and information and to format it professionally.

 

One key practical use of Clipzine that can be helpful in testing out its capablities is its ability to create a visual magazine of any Pinterest board.

Just go to the selected Pinterest board page, click the Clipzine bookmarklet and select the unique Clipzine option to capture "all" images available on that page at once.

 

Once captured all the images in a "zine", click on Edit / Syling and then on the Styling button that appears above each page content. Now hover with your mouse on any image in the collection and experiment with the feature buttons that appear around and in the center of each image.

 

The final collection, called a zine, can be saved, published on the web, shared on social media, embedded on other sites or saved to a PDF file.

 

 

 

My comment: This is one of the very few curation tools that leverages a tremendously powerful variable: control of positioning and size of elements in a collection. This is very useful as it empowers the curator to go beyond the linear top-down list or newspaper/magazine sequence and to create a more varied "equilibrium" between the elements in the collection. 

Understanding how to use Clipzine is not as intuitive as one would like, and the UI, thanks also to the presence of unpleasant and distracting ads is not as clean and straightforward as I would like to be.

 

Promising concept. Powerful visual control in the hands of the curator. A bit disappointing implementation and not so intuitive and simple to use (for now). 

 

 

 

Free to use. Ad supported.

 

Find out more / Try it out now: https://clipzine.me/

 

 


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Jessica Gerald's comment, May 24, 6:51 PM
Robin, I want to thank you for all of your excellent posts. I get a lot of good ideas on curation from following you. You always seem to be on top of the latest things!
Robin Good's comment, Today, 3:10 AM
Thank *YOU* Jessica for finding the time to stop by and share your gratitude. The more feedback I get about what you want to see from me and the better I can get at doing this pick, select and present job. :-)
LLatipi's curator insight, Today, 6:10 AM

Clipzine is a web app which makes it easy to collect images from any website page and to visually organize them into page-based collections.

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How To Properly Integrate Education Technology

How To Properly Integrate Education Technology | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation theory is the basis for several different models of organizational change, and it is the theory that is taught in most instructional technology programs at the Masters or Doctorate level. Organizations will not change until the people within them are ready to change, and those people have differing attitudes towards change. In a one-to-one program, often the resistance isn’t towards using technology but instead it’s resistance towards change itself.

 


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Nik Peachey's curator insight, May 24, 4:40 AM

The title of this article is a bit deceptive, it's really about piloting, but does hit on some very relevant points.

Mike Assouline's curator insight, May 24, 8:07 AM

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Mike Assouline's curator insight, May 24, 8:39 AM

pas mal ! http://www.webdesign-x.fr "creation site paris"

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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them.
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Slide Effect: Create Spectacular Presentations

Slide Effect: Create Spectacular Presentations | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
Slide Effect is a presentation software to create advanced shows in a few minutes. Easy to use, spectacular effects and transitions. Download the free trial!

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Baiba Svenca's curator insight, May 22, 3:27 PM

Slide Effect have just released a new version of the software, and it's worth taking a look at this easy and effective presentation creator.

You build your slides by adding pictures, shapes and text, then customize background and slide transition. 3D text and special apparition effects are new features that help to make your slides really spectacular.

Free trial is available but even a paid version of $39 is not big money if you like the amazing software.

AnnaB's curator insight, May 22, 3:53 PM

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Karen Moore's curator insight, May 24, 2:16 PM

This looks like a good one to explore!

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In fall 2011, Sebastian Thrun, a research professor at Stanford, and Peter Norvig, the top scientist at Google, teamed up to develop and teach a free, online course on artificial intelligence. Their aim, as Norvig said in an impassioned and compelling TED talk, was to develop a course at least as good as, if not better than, the course they teach together at Stanford. They'd put the result online and make it available to everyone, for free.

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2-Year Colleges Are at Risk of 'Separate and Unequal' Future, Report Says

2-Year Colleges Are at Risk of 'Separate and Unequal' Future, Report Says | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
The Century Foundation calls for radical change to avoid "the increasing economic and racial isolation of students" at community colleges.

 

Community colleges "are in great danger of becoming indelibly separate and unequal institutions in the higher-education landscape," a Century Foundation task force warns in a report being released here on Thursday. To deal with what it calls "the increasing economic and racial isolation of students" at community colleges, the group also calls for major changes in how two-year colleges are financed and operated.

 

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46 Education App Review Sites For Teachers And Students

46 Education App Review Sites For Teachers And Students | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
Katie and I can't cover the entire education app industry by ourselves. Luckily, there are dozens of other sites specifically devoted to education app reviews for teachers and students.

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Alfredo Corell's curator insight, Today, 12:26 PM

good review

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Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos | Faculty Focus

Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos | Faculty Focus | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
From Web-enhanced face-to-face courses to MOOCs, flipped, blended, and fully online courses, videos are an integral component of today’s educational landscape—from kindergarten all the way through higher education.
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Some great tips!

Chris Carter's curator insight, May 21, 9:20 PM

This is important!

Chris Carter's comment, May 24, 2:19 AM
Agreed! Thank you for sharing, Rosemary! Also, Olgy, Di ut, Mark, and Mark!
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Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets.

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What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students

What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
People who have taken dozens of massive open online courses share their advice for those teaching them.
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Here’s How to Build an E-Learning Template That Will Rock Your World » The Rapid eLearning Blog

Here’s How to Build an E-Learning Template That Will Rock Your World » The Rapid eLearning Blog | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Okay, if an elearning template’s going to rock your world you need to get out of your cubicle and go take a walk outside. Enjoy the life around you. Then come back and finish reading this blog post. I’ll be waiting.

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Teaching Mistakes from the College Classroom - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus

Teaching Mistakes from the College Classroom - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
If you’re like most educators, you probably made your share of teaching mistakes. This report features more than a dozen essays by instructors who were willing to share their early-career missteps and the lessons they learned.
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Great downloadable report. 

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Report on 6 MOOCs turns up 10 surprises

Report on 6 MOOCs turns up 10 surprises | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

The report has good data, tries to separate out active learners from window shoppers and not short on surprises. It’s a rich resource and a follow up report is promised.


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plerudulier's curator insight, May 24, 3:08 PM
Main driver – learning, low interest in certificationThis is a lesson that many MOOC commentators are learning, that MOOCs reflect, not demand for certification but demand for ‘learning’ with only around a third interested in certification or career. . That’s not to say that certification is not important, it’s just less important than educators think. Curiosity about online education and MOOCs, however, is the temporary pollutant in the data.
Helena Capela's curator insight, Today, 5:19 AM

Relatório com algumas conclusões talvez inesperadas.

sanford arbogast's curator insight, Today, 1:46 PM

one of the surprises should have been that 22K people took an Equine nutrition class.

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"I Can't Imagine Going Back": Inside A Duke Professor's Flipped Classroom - moocnewsandreviews.com

"I Can't Imagine Going Back": Inside A Duke Professor's Flipped Classroom - moocnewsandreviews.com | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
Podcast and transcript of Biology Prof. Mohamed Noor of Duke University discussing his flipped classroom and his Coursera MOOC on Genetics and Evolution.
Ken Morrison's comment, May 24, 11:09 PM
This was very valuable insight from this professor. Thanks for sharing!
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The Point of Grad School is to Learn to Say "No" - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Point of Grad School is to Learn to Say "No" - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

A few weeks ago, I discussed how I discovered toward the end of graduate school that mentoring is a fantasy. In short, what I mean by this is that in any advising situation both parties often have expectations of how the relationship will work and that these expectations do not always align with each other or with reality. I came to this realization after one of my dissertation readers suggested I add a bit of Heidegger to my project. (If that sounds like the set-up to an academic punchline, well, it’s Friday, right?) Eventually, I declined, and my reader didn’t bring it up again.

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Establishing an Online Professional Learning Community to Promote Faculty Engagement | Faculty Focus

Establishing an Online Professional Learning Community to Promote Faculty Engagement | Faculty Focus | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
In online higher education, adjunct faculty members are an essential resource.
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MOOC Professors Claim No Responsibility for How Courses Are Used - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

MOOC Professors Claim No Responsibility for How Courses Are Used - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Robert Ghrist, a professor of mathematics and electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, knows that wielding vast networks on behalf of nonuniversity benefactors can be tricky business.

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How to Get Better Feedback from Students | Faculty Focus

How to Get Better Feedback from Students | Faculty Focus | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
It’s that time of the year when end-of-course ratings and student comments are collected. When the feedback arrives, the quality often disappoints—and if the feedback is collected online, fewer students even bother to respond.
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MOOC Provider edX More Than Doubles Its University Partners - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

MOOC Provider edX More Than Doubles Its University Partners - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Fifteen more universities have agreed to offer free massive open online courses through edX, a nonprofit provider of MOOCs founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, more than doubling its membership, from 12 to 27.

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The Flipped Class Revealed

The Flipped Class Revealed | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Switching from a traditional classroom to a flipped classroom can be daunting because there are a lack of effective models.  So, what should an effective flipped classroom look like?  In our experience, effective flipped classrooms share many of these characteristics:


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Jane Sowter-Maranion's curator insight, May 22, 7:28 PM

The development of critical literacy in students is a large part of the new Australian Curriculum. The 'flipped classroom' can really assist teachers in developing higher order thinking skills, ICT literacy, and Information literacy. 

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sanford arbogast's curator insight, May 24, 8:34 AM

This is part 3 of a very good series onwhy you should flip your class and how to do it

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Thinking Cinematically in Prezi

Thinking Cinematically in Prezi | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it

Editor’s note: Steve Wishman is a presentation designer at Prezi. Known for creating rich cinematic presentations for TED presenters and Silicon Valley leaders, engineers, startups, and more, Steve comes to Prezi with a lofty but simple goal: to create breathtaking visual stories that help change the world.  


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Some good insights in the article, but I can't say I'm crazy about the sample Prezis.

Alfredo Corell's curator insight, May 20, 12:05 PM

Think as a cameraman while designing your prezi presentations

Sofi Lapizco's curator insight, May 23, 12:29 PM

Aquí hay un poco de ayuda para construir su cinematografía, lo que significa pensar como camarógrafo. Imagínese cómo una cámara se mueve a medida que avanza a través de su presentación y predecir la siguiente vista que verá su audiencia. Lo que tienes que hacer es plan de plan de plan hasta que su presentación se convierte en un arte de la performance.

Jim Price's curator insight, May 24, 12:06 PM

Ahhh... Prezi!!

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The Teacher of Tomorrow – What makes a 21st Century Educator?

The Teacher of Tomorrow – What makes a 21st Century Educator? | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
Technology makes the tools, but what are the general characteristics that make an effective educator a 21st century educator?

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Sharla Shults's curator insight, May 23, 5:00 PM

It is not just having the technology; it is knowing how to use the technology effectively!

Cathleen Nardi's curator insight, May 23, 5:58 PM

The ability to adapt and the ability to encourage one's students to do the same.

Jane Sowter-Maranion's curator insight, May 23, 7:12 PM

Being a 21st Century educator is creating a learning environment that is social, collaborative and project based. Teachers, nor anyone else for that matter, will ever be able to keep up with all new technologies. The trick is to focus on digital technologies that facilitate student collaboration.

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Top 10 Instructional Designer Skills

Top 10 Instructional Designer Skills | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
All jobs require a certain set of talents and skills, whether natural or acquired. But what skills does an instructional designer need in order to be successful and stand out?
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5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom - Edudemic

5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom - Edudemic | Teaching in Higher Education | Scoop.it
The best social media tools for your classroom are free, easy to use, and right here. We break down some of the newest and noteworthy for you.
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