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Visually Pleasing - Rock Those Google Presentations

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Google Presentations  Boost Your Knowledge with These Great Tips and Tricks One of the ways that I've been spending some of my precious time lately is creating Google presentations for a graduate class that I will be teaching this Fall as well as for the various trainings that I've been preparing for. Design and graphics have always interested me, so I love looking at ways to spruce up my presentations to add interesting elements that will make a visual impression on the audience.  So, today I have a video tutorial of five tips and tricks for Google Presentations that I think you will find useful and will add visually pleasing elements to your presentation. Enjoy!

I Finally Figured it Out - 360 Degree Pictures Made Easily

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With growing interest in Virtual Reality, Google Cardboard, Google Expeditions and Thinglink VR, I've been spending a bit of time exploring 360 degree pictures. I've been able to find images online that have been posted by other people. Even our local newspaper has a link called Virtual Reality where they post  360 degree video stories  from USA Today.  I've been really enjoying these amazing stories and views. Theta 360 degree camera For the past few weeks I've been trying to figure out a simple way to take 360 degree pictures of my own. I've seen the Theta  360 degree camera  demoed and it works really slick, but I don't want to  spend $350  for one. I asked my 16 year old son if he has ever taken a 360 degree picture and he said no, but once he looked at the examples I was exploring he went to work to find an app.  The Google Street View App  for IOS or Andriod is the one he found. And it works great!!  Leave it to a 16 year old to research,

Summer 2016 = Learning, Experiencing, Tinkering

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What I'm Learning This Summer I've always been a life long learner. I crave information and I love to learn and try new things. With that said, here are some of the ways I've been growing as a learner and gaining valuable knowledge in education and technology.