Alice Mercer’s PD Blog

_{Photo Credit Tiny Flowers by Emily D Elliott on flickr photosharing}

I’m sorry!

Howdy! Thanks for coming to my training, and thank you for your patience with a truly trying technical situation. I will be discussing the difficulties we had with ISET (the “tech” folks), so if you were planning on attending my session on April 23rd (“What’s New”) things should be better. Please fill out the online evaluation form here, or by clicking the Evaluation tab above. If you would like to hear more about trainings in the future, please put your email address at the widget in the top left column. I’m thinking in the future, that I’m only going to cover PowerPoint by itself, and I’ll do a training on online alternatives as a standalone training.

Here are the links for the training:

The presentation:

• Beyond Power Point on Slideshare.net
• Beyond PowerPoint – Google Docs

Background on PowerPoint design (the links in italics are “backups” and should be available at SCUSD even though these sites are blocked):

• The Cognitive Load of PowerPoint: Q&A With Richard E. Mayer : MarketingProfs Articles
• Design by Fire • Convenient Lessons from An Inconvenient Truth
  Backup URL (http://backupurl.com/cache/7zc6d4.html)
• How to Change the World: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
  Backup URL (http://backupurl.com/cache/p29t2n.html)
• Presentation Zen
  Backup URL (http://backupurl.com/cache/2gsq43.html)
• Edublogs.tv   PowerPoint Extreme Makeover
  The video most of you watched

Resources to get pictures

• The Best Online Sources For Images | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
  list of online sites for images
• FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic
• Tech4Learning – Pics4Learning
• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Resources to make slideshows online as an alternative to PowerPoint, or if want to place a PowerPoint on a Web page

• CogDogRoo ” StoryTools
  A whole site with lists of story telling resources
• The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
  A list of places to create online slideshows
• VoiceThread – Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
• Voicethread 4 Education » home
  Examples of VoiceThreads that others have made.
• VoiceThread – Third Graders on Friendship
  An example from my lab
• SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes)
  Upload powerpoints, so that you can put the slide shows in an attractive package on the web.
• bookr ::pimpampum Make books using flickr photos
  The Hmong People by Ms. Mercer :: bookr ::pimpampum an example I made
• National Archives Experience
  A movie I made there
• fd’s Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos
  Here are some “posters” created by my sixth graders