Whyn't we all go on over to Interversity, dot com or dot org, and do it ourselves, rather than waiting for anyone else to catch on? And then maybe you'll come...
John McLaughlin
johnmc@...
Jan 2, 2001 1:26 am
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Hi Fred, Hi Dawn -- Glad you haven't lost your roar, Fred. Dawn: even at Seton Hall where we did a laptop rollout so EVERYONE had laptops and networked...
Trent Batson
trent-batson@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:10 pm
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D ... D> > Frankly, Trent and Steve, the new version of education is going to ... I'D PUT my eggs in Fred's basket here: the takeover of ed is - barring a beeg...
hugh stilley
hugitoiv@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:57 pm
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Hey again-- The "Iron Chef" marathon on the Food Network is over and there is a feeling of the holiday being over around here today. But before my nose goes ...
Steve Krause
skrause@...
Jan 2, 2001 4:44 pm
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I tried to view the slick slide show by clicking on this link, but could only find one slide, and it didn't seem very slick--kind of standard and boring. Did...
Jude Edminster
jedmins1@...
Jan 2, 2001 5:31 pm
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... could ... and ... It's a whole .ppt file you have to download to view, Jude. Did the download start for you? (I *didn't* download it, but I'll take...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 2, 2001 6:22 pm
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Oh, don't take my word for it. It looks like I was being more alliterative than accurate. Nancy ... Nancy G. Patterson Portland Middle School, English Dept....
Nancy Patterson
patter@...
Jan 2, 2001 8:41 pm
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... Glad I didn't, then! Anyway, I wonder, do many of you upload Power Point presentations for your students? One of our teachers here regularly does, and...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:06 pm
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Hugh hit on a lot of things, and so I'm guessing this from John Rakestraw's LTSeek might be of interest: &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In Tuesday's ...
Nick Carbone
nick_carbone@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:39 pm
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Jude Edminster jedmins1@... ... From: Kafkaz <kafkaz@...> To: <TechRhet@egroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:05 PM Subject: Re:...
Jude Edminster
jedmins1@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:40 am
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... I do like the idea of letting the students do a good bit of the composing, Jude. (And my significant other is a corporate type, as well, so I appreciate...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:55 am
2721
... At the risk of sounding nit-picky, I thought I'd point out that PowerPoint can easily incorporate hyperlinks--making it a fairly good (in some ways)...
David M. Sheridan
dsheridn@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:41 am
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... It's okay; I don't feel nitpicked at all. (Of course, I'm right now polishing off a slice of my husband's birthday cake, so it's probably only the...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:27 am
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Thought others might find these essays interesting. http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9705/creed_1.htm Excerpt: "Using PowerPoint in the classroom doesn't...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:41 am
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We've used Powerpoint synchronized with video for the past two years in the UAW-Ford program -- we deliver the lecture material for entire courses that way. I...
Marcy Bauman
marcyb@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:42 pm
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Hi everyone, I'm off to the CCCCs Winter Workshop. The topic this year is "So Many Students, So Few Computers: Dealing with Literacy, Race, and Technology...
Dawn Rodrigues
drodrigues@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:48 pm
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Dawn, any chance you can send your presentation to the list or to me offlist? I've been enjoying this conversation a great deal, though I now know the...
Will Hochman
Hochman@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:23 pm
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Marcy's story makes me think that there's potential for this in writing courses. For example, if one of your inclass prompts is based on describing another...
Nick Carbone
nick_carbone@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:06 pm
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I don't use PowerPoint. I prefer Flash because it's more web compatible and I like the end result better. Nevertheless, at the risk of sounding like a...
David M. Sheridan
dsheridn@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:47 pm
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... I *do* think so, but then I think we're talking about different things, David. (Well, I *know* we are, based on your wonderful counterpoints.) What I have...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:30 pm
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... We-eell . . . One reason not to make a presentation into a web page is that maybe the venue where the presentation will be presented isn't wired for...
Marcy Bauman
marcyb@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:37 pm
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Hi Will, I read your reply to Dawn about your computer situation at Southern Connecticut. With the limited interest at Southern, you might try to involve your...
jarzt
jarzt@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:58 pm
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Ooops! Sorry to have misunderstood Kathy's earlier posts. I agree that the kind of canned web pages PPt automatically generates have *severe* limitations. ...
David M. Sheridan
dsheridn@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:00 pm
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... While it's true that a play script isn't a play, ... Yes, yes! This is exactly what I mean, Marcy. So, when teachers put ppt's online for online or...
Kafkaz
kafkaz@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:51 pm
2734
Take a look at eloquent.com. It produces online presentations with streaming audio and video, a transcript of the text that moves along with the reading, as...
Janice R. Walker
JWALKER@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:10 pm
2735
Along with the Dell and their rolling wireless laptops, there is something similar, though less high powered and less expensive I imagine, available from...
bradley bleck
bleckb@...
Jan 3, 2001 9:06 pm
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I don't think it's possible to use a tool without transforming it in some way. And I think Microsoft is very interested in knowing how their tools are being...
Jude Edminster
jedmins1@...
Jan 4, 2001 12:43 am
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A colleague of mine in the computer industry tells me that some firms--SUN in particular he says--have begun to shun PowerPoint as a presentation tool because...
RogerREasson@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:05 am
2738
I categorically refuse to ever make *anyone* use a product called "E-buddy." I think there's something in the Geneva convention about this too. MC From Phil...
Mark E. Crane
mark@...
Jan 4, 2001 3:11 pm
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I was wondering if people would be willing to share sites or favorite print publications that provide new teachers in composition, tech. comm. and literature...