http://darinwagner.com Teachers. Technology. Transformation. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:29:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://darinwagner.com/2010/08/31/presentations/annotation-with-powerpoint/ http://darinwagner.com/2010/08/31/presentations/annotation-with-powerpoint/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:29:30 +0000 Darin Wagner http://darinwagner.com/?p=1397 "I want students to mark up grammatically incorrect sentences on my interactive white board. What's the easiest way to do that?" My answer was "PowerPoint." When you use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to display presentations, or in this case sentences, you can annotate right on the slide. This option appealed to me because we did not [...] Related posts:

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