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News From Sameshow Blog:



Enjoy your FREE 2009 Educators’ Calendar, full of interesting holidays, significant dates in history, and month- and week-long celebrations. It’s sure to present teachable moments all year long!…

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News from ReadWriteWeb:



Jing, one of our favorite free screenshot and screencasting tools, just received a major update. Besides adding a new look and feel, TechSmith, Jing's parent company, also announced a new Pro version of Jing, which, for $14.95 a year, allows users to record their screencasts in HD H.264 video, directly upload them to YouTube, and remove the Jing logos that appear at the beginning and… Continue

Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has compiled some great lists for e-learning tools. The lists are geared more toward educators, but I think a decent majority of the items are relevant for students as well, especially grad students who spend their days walking that line between penniless student and underpaid educator.



There’s the… Continue

When the season of goodwill and tidings comes, you may like to find some funny ways for sharing some cheer with your friends on Christmas.



Quizzing is a good way to impress your folks in the Season's party. Well, you can really add some Christmas merriness and enrich the Season's spirit with some simple questions which go in perfect sync with the Christmas mood. …

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Here is a step-by-step tutorial of create quizzes from excel:



Wondershare QuizCreator provides users with two options of adding different question types to a quiz.

1. Create questions one by one in QuizCreator.

2. Import questions from an external… Continue

Help E-retailers Capture Dollars on Cyber Monday



Story from DMO Blog:



As this time of year is make it or break it for many retailers, now is the last chance to prepare for the busy period. E-retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers during the crucial Thanksgiving weekend and "Cyber Monday" -- but even so, online sales are expected to be fairly flat after… Continue

Here is a step-by-step tutorial from Online-Quiz-Creator.com, Our teachers could rapidly create a multimedia quiz and publish it to web or Blog. It also provide Quiz Management System to track the quiz results online For Free.

News from sameshow blog:

Though little research indicates how we can upgrade our traditional exams with newly educational technologies, taking the advantages of Internet really will change any traditional ways. That’s what we expect from Exam 2.0: the efficient solution to host exams anywhere anytime. Transferring traditional exams… Continue

This article from: http://www.answerbag.com/articles/How-to-Use-PowerPoint-to-Improve-Teaching/8e35e7a9-b8e6-ab0c-e477-6a38e5c8a97b



Things You’ll Need:

PowerPoint software



Step 1:

Put your opening activity or warm-up on PowerPoint instead of the overhead. As students share their responses, add them to the next slide.



Step 2:

Prepare lectures in PowerPoint. Adding pictures and short video clips makes the presentation truly… Continue

Are you suffering the high cost and continual repetition of live presentations?



"As a president, I always join many meetings and trade shows to present our products or corporation. There is no problem with the live presentation. But I’m stuck when I want to sharing the meeting with others after it. Because I need present the same presentation again and again even spend additional high costs on driving or flying. The boring continual repetition makes me crazy. Is there any… Continue

After another teacher asked me how to put swf files into powerpoint I recalled how complicated this was, but with many teachers having resources already in Powerpoint rather than Smart Notebook it was a matter of finding a way for teachers to insert flash and movie, record narration in ppt. And even it could add our teachers' video and narration along with the PowerPoint courses.

Then I remembered Wondershare PPT2Flash that is great for… Continue

As a Moodle user, I am really impressed by its powerful features. I can even upload a PowerPoint presentation as one lesson for learning and teaching. Actually, we have at least two options to import a PowerPoint to Moodle.

Option1. Import a PowerPoint as webpage (Without animations, transitions and media files)



Moodle has native feature to capture text and graphics from a series of PowerPoint presentation slides and… Continue