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Copy a presentation file from iPad to laptop

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Faye, one of the amazing teachers at PRACE, got her students to make slide presentations using Keynote on the iPads. The students showed their presentations on the big screen with Airplay,  and then sent their files to Faye via Airdrop.  Then we wondered how to get all those presentation files from Faye’s iPad to her laptop. One way to do this is to share the Keynote file with google drive.. you can then get to the files on your laptop or desktop, at drive.google.com in the web browser. This is Read More …

Using Powerpoint in the classroom

Michael Chalk3 CommentsUncategorized

What’s so special about using Powerpoint in the classroom? Occasionally I read something that really resonates strongly with my current thoughts about teaching practice: what I do in the classroom, and what I’d like to do better. Rob Lewis, writing for the British Council, has encapsulated what all of us could use with very little additional training and equipment. His reasoning: you don’t need fancy interactive white boards nor many more typing skills beyond what you might have with Microsoft Word already, to sit down with your learners (and a Read More …