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Prezi - the best presentation-maker

Now that we are all working on our projects and presentations, I would really like to recommend you a fantastic presentation-maker site. Prezi.com is not only a wonderful replacement of PowerPoint, but also fits into our seminar's main topic - it is a social site which allows us to work online on our presentations in teams!

It was developed by a Hungarian architect, and as the wikipedia puts it: " Prezi is used as platform for bridging linear and non-linear information, and as a tool for both for free-form brainstorming and structured presentation. Text, images, videos and other presentation media are placed upon the canvas, and can be grouped together in frames."

To mention but a few important aspects: It allows presenting both online and offline; it is highly visual, we can pan and zoom, it is structured in a "2,5 D" space; we can import any media; there are pre-made templates if we are short in time; and most importantly, we can work on our presentations together on it!

So feel free to visit prezi.com, it is a major help in constructing our research!

On the interactive whiteboard

Something we have very little time to discuss, as it is not in the focus of the present class is using interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in the language classroom. Árpi has already posted on this and now I found an interesting blog entry reporting on research findings in connection with the IWBs.

You can read the article here.

Should mobile phones be banned in schools?

Mobile learning is the next topic I would like to discuss in class. Recently, I have read an interesting blogpost on whether mobile phones should be banned in class or not.

You can read it here.

I really like blogs, as reading the article itself is just the beginning. Make sure you read the comments as well - and feel free to ad yours, too.

Text-speak

As I can recall, we have talked about how kids sometimes use written abbreviations when they speak. The phenomenon seems to be a global one since Ben Trawick-Smith, a Seattle-based blogger, has also experienced it, and he wrote an interesting blog post that you can read here.

Just for fun #2

English language education as seen in WoW, after the jump. :)

Just for Fun

A photo I found on the Internet:

Source: coolerthan.me