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What If I Don't Have PowerPoint on My Home Computer?

Create an iGoogle account if you have not already. If you have already started a PowerPoint presentation at school, you can easily upload it to your account and work on it with Google Presentations. Your iGoogle account is also a great place to backup your work. After you leave Council Grove High School, your files will still be available to you.

Google Presentations (Web-Based, Free)
 

Google Presentations isn't the most feature packed or whiz-bang presentation creation tool around. It is, however, completely serviceable, web-based, free, and offers the same dependable cloud-based backup and work-anywhere convenience that you've come to expect from Google products. You can share your work, collaborate, work on it from any web browser, and pull from the thousands of templates available in Google's vast public templates pool. The template used in the above screenshot is available here. (taken from LifeHacker)

YouTube Time Machine

 

I WANT AN IPAD II!

The velcro/iPad combination takes nerdiness to new heights. So be it. I'm in.

 

I WANT AN IPAD!

I hope, however, that even with all the bright, shiny, animated illustrations that people take time to read the text. Alice in Wonderland is a great book.

 

Vintage Veronica FIC PER

Sites to Help You Choose a College

College Confidential includes hundreds of pages of articles about choosing a college, getting into the college you want, how to pay for it, and much more. You'll also find the Web's busiest discussion community related to college admissions. Also check out Free Technology for Teachers post called Seven Sites to Help Students Choose and Apply to Colleges.

 

Carter's Big Break FIC CRA

Carter Finally Gets It is a 2010 Kansas Notable Book and from what I hear, it is fast paced and funny. Carter's Big Break is the sequel. The author does not try to hide the fact that he is ADD, and his blog reflects that.

The inscription on the back of Carter's Big Break reads:

Warning: This book is intended for immature audiences. If you find teen guys annoying and/or disgusting, this may not be the book for you. There's gotta be something about a cute wizard or moody vampire around here... Go find it!

Here is how it begins:

"On the last day of school, I'm happily strolling down the hall after Mr. Rumpford's ridiculously hard algebra final.  He told me last week that if I failed it, I'd have to go to summer school . . . as if!  I studied so hard last night, I thought my brain would fall out.  But it didn't, and I aced that sucker with a D+!  I waited around after the bell rang and watched as Rumpford graded the tests.  Yes, I had better things to do, but my summer was hanging in the balance, so I kind of didn't.  I knew I'd passed when he looked up.  He gave me a nod and said, 'Imagine if you'd applied yourself like this all year, Mr. Carter.

I laughed at his joke, returned the nod, and replied, 'Yeah!' as I headed for the door."

Celebrate 150 Years

 

Deb Caletti

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart was so popular that I bought more of Deb Caletti's books this year. Come in and take a look.

 

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