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28 Feb

ICT Tip: Prezi instead of PowerPoint?

Link: www.prezi.com What is it? Prezi a popular on-line presentation tool that goes way beyond your typical PowerPoint. Prezi can be used by both students and teachers. Prezi offers free licenses for students and teachers. What’s Prezi? Well.. Prezi is...
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26 May

Teacher Feature: Ann Fairhurst-Lozyk (EMSB, James Lyng)

Teacher: Ann Fairhurst-Lozyk (Basic Education) School Board and Centre: English Montreal School Board, James Lyng Adult Education Centre in Montreal, Quebec. What is the material? Ann’s project instructs teachers how to illustrate a dialogue between two students using a variety...
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10 Mar

SMARTBoard: How to create “links” in your SMART Notebook presentations

Quick overview: A step-by-step video tutorial on how to create links in a SMART Notebook presentation. Links can be to websites, external documents (i.e. – Word, Powerpoint, PDF) or other slides within the SMART Notebook presentation. How can this be...
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17 Nov

ICT Tip: How to create a “transparent hotspot” in a PowerPoint presentation

Quick overview: This technique could be used in a PowerPoint presentation to give the illusion that the user is zooming into an image (when clicked) for a close-up or to setup a navigation system between different PowerPoint slides. How does...
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28 Jun

ICT Tip – Slideshare: An easy way for teachers to put their PowerPoint or PDF presentations on-line

Quick overview: A website (www.slideshare.com) that allows you to easily put your PowerPoint or PDF presentations on-line for your students to view. Free! (Note: If you’re not quite sure what PowerPoint is, please refer to the ICT Tip at the...
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