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A site called SlideFinder makes it eerily easy to search for Pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tions on the web.  Con­sid­er­ing the time and effe­ort peo­ple put into cre­at­ing Pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tions, it might be a bit unset­tling.  But the use­ful­ness of such a tool … Con­tinue read­ing →

The Mod­ern Lan­guage Asso­ci­a­tion has a great inter­ac­tive map show­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion of  lan­guages spo­ken across the United States.  Results can be view­ing for the entire coun­try or for an indi­vid­ual state. MLA Language Map

Here is an inter­est­ing arti­cle from Lisa Lane, fea­tured in First Mon­day, urg­ing us to break away from the cur­ricu­lum struc­ture pre­scribed by the defaults of the Course man­age­ment sys­tem course web­site. Insid­i­ous ped­a­gogy: How course man­age­ment sys­tems affect teaching

Copy text from a web­page and paste it into VozMe.com.  The site con­verts the text into audio files. Span­ish, Eng­lish, Ital­ian, Hindi, Por­tuguese, and cata­lan are sup­ported. http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en

NPR gives a story and a pod­cast about using click­ers in the class­room. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101343866