If you just read one: http://ririanproject.com/2007/05/05/5-powerful-hacks-to-immediately-improve-your-presentations/ http://blog.scottjelias.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/slides.pdf http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/09/everything-i-know-about-presentations-i-learned-in-theatre-school.html http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/02/03/out_loud.html http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/04/30/how_to_not_throw_up.html http://blog.ericfeng.com/250-things-i-have-learnt-that-will-… Continue

Only just stumbled across this List of top 100 tools for learning. - sorry if it's old news for everyone else. There is time to contribute your own top 10 tools before they finalise the list at the end of March. Reading the entries so far you might find something new to try - for me it was eXe to easily produce web learning content and… Continue

An interesting piece of research from Microsoft, who undoubtedly have a vested interest, shows that students who understand copyright are less likely to break it. From Read Write Web One of their responses is to promote use of freely shared items, mixing and sharing using their My By… Continue

If your system admins haven't been converted to the idea of using Google Apps for your email and to provide customised start pages, share calendars, collaborate on docs, publish web pages etc. then you might like this:

http://www.google.com/apps/edu/index.html

It allows your students to share documents, calendars, talk and a start page - all they need to do is register with the same email domain, eg student1@school.co… Continue

Camtasia 3 & SnagIt 7 (there are newer versions of each available) can be downloaded and keys generated for free from the publisher's website - no strings, just a way for them to encourage you to buy the latest versions.

Both work great if you want a simple, Windows, way to generate demonstration videos or screenshots of on sc… Continue