Presentation Tools:

Need to impress the class with technological wizardry?  Try one of these great tools!

• Wordle : tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently
• Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes -- into a visually stunning tag cloud
• Xtranormal : movie maker utilizing text-to-speech
• Voice Thread : transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
• Prezi : zooming presentation editor
• Glogster:  a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.
• Todays Meet : Want to run a class discussion on line at the same time you present?  Use Todays Meet to make it happen.  

Technology Trends 

Keep up to date with the world of technology with these sites:

• IBM Research:  A great website to see what IBM Research is up to and in development.  
• Gizmodo:  A website devoted to tracking trends in upcoming technology