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Learning on the Loo - Volume #3 by Michaela Durand | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more

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The Importance of Technology

Technology helps our students become collaborative, creative and critical thinkers that take pride in the content that they produce. In fact, there are so many new types of technology tools out there for research presentations, that simply creating PowerPoints is not enough for our students. Instead, try taking advantage of some of the new tools available in the library when having your students present their research projects. Our school library has subscribed to many of these new presentation tools. Some of these tools can be expensive for students on their own, so come down to the library and take full advantage of the tools that we have on our computers. These new presentation tools will allow your students to be more creative than they are when they simply create a PowerPoint. These are tools that take full advantage of online technologies. Some of these tools include Prezi, Powtoon and Screencastify. They are very interactive, allow students to easily integrate and embed resources and can really take your students learning to the next level. The great thing is that these technology and presentation tools can be used not just in a classroom setting, but in a professional setting as well. When your students leave school, they can take these tools with them. It is not unheard of for one's boss to ask them to prepare a presentation and utilizing these new tools, can only help your students in these professional settings.

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Technology helps our students become collaborative, creative and critical thinkers that take pride in the content that they produce. In fact, there are so many new types of technology tools out there for research presentations, that simply creating PowerPoints is not enough for our students.