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This is among the most interesting and original uses for PowerPoint that I have read about.
Jill White, who has finished 10 years of teaching with Memphis City Schools, uses PowerPoint with first graders so that they can add their poetry to PowerPoint slides with a picture. This works great because it’s the first time the children use PowerPoint. So, it’s nice to start with simple stuff. These poetry slides then make great presentations to show at Open Houses, parent meetings, school meetings, and even district-wide meetings.
Read more on the Scholastic site.
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Scrapblog is an awesome site that lets you create online digital scrapbooks—and it works so much like PowerPoint! They have added a slew of new improvements:
The new photo cropping options now allow you to crop to cookie cutter shapes like circles, rectangles, and stars. There’s also a freehand scissors tool that lets you cut edges any way you want. And an eraser option lets you erase areas of photos as required!
Scrapblog now provides one-click effects—these effects include 12 new built-in effects like black and white, sepia, antique, matte, vignette, a comic book effect, and even the ability to flip your photo. There are also advanced options that allow you to adjust the contrast, saturation, tint, or other fine grained settings.
Scrapblog now also provides new themes, stickers, backgrounds, and frames.
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I ran into this excellent, post by Cory Bohon on automating PowerPoint 2008 on the Mac using the Automator program built within the Mac OS X. This may prove a great starting point for automating PowerPoint on the Mac since this new version (PowerPoint 2008) no longer provides VBA programming support.
Read on The Unofficial Apple Weblog site.
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Scott Schwertly of Ethos3 recently interviewed Geetesh Bajaj in the first of his series on 7 Questions.
This interview can be found on his new Storybored blog.
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