A Few Ways to Share a Powerpoint in WordPress

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1. Use ISPING to convert to Flash and link.

  • Advantages: Free version available (Download HERE); Sounds and Animations will work; Easy publish from Powerpoint Plugin to Web Folder
  • Disadvantages: Won’t embed in WordPress unless the blog is hosted locally with Flash  plugin allowed

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2. Use SLIDESHARE to embed a slide show

  • Advantages: Free; Easy embed code to cut and paste
  • Disadvantages: Sounds and Animations will not work

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3.  Use Microsoft SKY DRIVE

  • Advantages: Free; No Conversion necessary– just upload your Powerpoint to Sky Drive; Easy embed code,  Animations will work on the web if viewer clicks on Full Size Presentation; Audio and Video will work if viewer has Powerpoint installed on their computer and clicks Open in Powerpoint
  • Disadvantages: Viewer needs to open with a desktop application for audio or video to work; animations don’t work in embedded view (but do work in Full Screen Web View)

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Did You Know Video

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I thought I’d post a little video to fuel the conversation next Wednesday. It’s a bit alarming when you think about it. A video like this is actually outdated as fast as it is created. When I taught in the classroom, we used to discuss technological evolution in terms of its exponential growth– doubling every four years. For some time, Moore’s Law has been used to describe computing capacity doubling every 2 years (and now said to be doubling at a rate of every 18 months).  During the Obama campaign, John Legend used these words to inspire participation…“The future started yesterday and we’re already late”…

When it comes to technological evolution and what it means to our kids I usually feel inspired. I have to be honest though, sometimes I feel overwhelmed by it all. How will we prepare kids for a future we can not yet define?

How to use free Google tools to feed this Blog to your personal homepage:

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Set up a Google Reader Account:

  1. Go to www.google.com
  2. On the top right, click Sign In
  3. If you have a Google Account, sign in to it. If you don’t have a Google Account, create one now.
  4. Once you are signed in, go to Reader from the links on the top left (you will probably need click on more to find it).
  5. Click on Add a Subscription and paste or type the address for this blog: http://northwarrentech.wordpress.com/

Congratulations, you just subscribed to this page and will receive updates in your Google Reader. Add more feeds the same way. You can search for feeds by putting the search term in to the Add a Subscription box. For example, try typing “New York Times Education” or “ESPN Sports”and look at all of the news feeds you can have delivered.

Now put that feed on a personalized Home Page:

  1. Go back to the Google Home Page
  2. Click on IGoogle on the top right
  3. Fill out your Interests, Theme, Location and click See Your Page.
  4. Check out  the widgets—they all act independently and can easily be rearranged or deleted
  5. Click on Add Stuff on the top right.
  6. Search for Google Reader and click the add it now to create a new widget.
  7. Click Back to IGoogle home.

Voila! Now hopefully you are sufficiently amazed and can’t wait to add more stuff.

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A few thoughts on Web 2.0

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At the Tech Meeting, the question of Web “Vocabulary” came up– Blog? Wiki? RSS? The list could go on and on. So what does it all mean? The first step is to really wrap your brain around Web 2.0…

Think about it like this:
Web 2.0 is the socially connected Web where everyone is able to add to and edit the information space–where people can contribute as much as they can consume:

  • Web 1.0 is about Reading; Web 2.0 is about Writing
  • Web 1.0 is about Companies; Web 2.0 is about Communities
  • Web 1.0 is about Owning; Web 2.0 is about Sharing
  • Web 1.0 is about Lectures; Web 2.0 is about Conversations
  • Web 1.0 is about Taxonomies; Web 2.0 is about Tags
  • Web 1.0 is about “Them”; Web 2.0 is about “Us”

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