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New Tools “The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style”

Kurt Paccio
Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA
Blog: http://weblog.techruminations.org/

Bio
Kurt is an educator with over 14 years experience. Kurt is a Technology Director for a medium-sized school district in eastern Pennsylvania where he has worked for 5 years. Prior to that he was an Instructional Technology Specialist, teacher and coach in central Pennsylvania. Kurt’s interests include open source software, audio-visual integration, and digital video. Away from the keyboard Kurt enjoys American football at all levels, coaching youth athletics, and family activities with his wife and 3 children ages 4, 6, and 8. He is an avid St. Louis Ram’s fan.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Kurt+Paccio

James Gates
Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, USA
Blog: http://tipline.blogspot.com/

Bio
Jim has 32 years experience in public education. He has been teaching with and about computers since 1983. Jim maintains a tips blog at http://tipline.blogspot.com. His Internet column featured has won him both National Gold and National Bronze awards from the Parenting Publications of America. He has presented at the PETE&C conference in Hershey, PA and at the NECC conferences.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Jim+Gates

Presentation Title
“The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style”

Description
Kurt and Jim will focus on two web 2.0 tools that we feel have the potential for immediate impact in the classroom. Kurt will show sPresent and Jim will show Splashcast. The main part will be to show how the site works, but at the end of the presentation Jim will talk about how they might look in the classroom by talking about using them for student assessments and for engaging students in the conversations about the content.

Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/ElectricSlidePart1_iPod.m4v (15:01min Run Time; m4v; 19.3MB)
http://k12online.wm.edu/electricslidepart2_iPod.mp4 (15:49min Run Time; M4p; 6.5MB)
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/ElectricSlidePart1.mp3 (15:01min. Run Time; mp3; 7.3MB)
http://k12online.wm.edu/electricslidepart2.mp3 (15:49min. Run Time; mp3; 6.9MB)

Supporting Links
http://www.spresent.com/v2/
http://www.splashcast.net/

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comments

  1. Liz Kolb

    These are two fantastic tools! I think this is the best web PowerPoint creator that I have seen. I really like that you can embed YouTube, Flickr, and audio files into these presentations! So much better than Zoho.

    I also like Splashcast. It is so simple to create and share. Thank you for such a fun presentation and two new user-friendly tools for the classroom!

  2. Laura Mogan

    I thought the audio on the powerpoint slide was good. I thought that the graphics were great and it seemed easy to use. It was great how you can link it to you tube.

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