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SlideTalk

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Publish your presentations as engaging talking videos! Share your powerpoint presentations, eLearning content, business presentations and tutorials as engaging talking videos, by using high-quality and multilingual text-to-speech technology, with no need for expensive and time-consuming voice recordings.  Learn more about what SlideTalk can do for you in this slidetalk video:

Follow the three simple steps Show-Describe-Share described here below to turn your presentations into talking videos: 
1. Show: upload slides  Upload and arrange your slides to build your story.
2. Describe: type texts  Type a text for each slide to tell your story and describe the image. High quality text-to-speech, with 20+ languages and 70+ voices, will convert your text into voicever speech.
3. Share: share video  The images and the audio are turned into a video automatically published on YouTube, ready to be shared with your audience, or available for download to let you choose how to share it. 
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Applying Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom

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8th March - International Women's Day

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“You may not control all the events that happen to you,
but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter


Do you salad or sandwich? The verbing of English

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Lies - Rihanna's version ;)

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Types of Imagination

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Imagination is critical to innovation and learning – but what exactly is it? Prof. Dr. Murray Hunter of the University of Malaysia Perlis discusses the 8 types of imagination we use on a daily basis, with explanations for each. Dr. Hunter defines imagination as “the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our senses. Imagination is a manifestation of our memory and enables us to scrutinize our past and construct hypothetical future scenarios that do not yet, but could exist. Imagination also gives us the ability to see things from other points of view and empathize with others.”
8 Types of Imagination
1. “Effectuative Imagination combines information together to synergize new concepts and ideas.”
2. “Intellectual (or Constructive) Imagination is utilized when considering and developing hypotheses from different pieces of information or pondering over various issues of meaning say in the areas of philosophy, m…

Portugal this weekend!

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If you want to read more about what is taking the Portuguese people to the streets, fighting for their right of dignity and respect, againt the never ending austerity, in more than 40 different cities, you can read here in Portuguese (via Jornal Público) and here in English (via Reuters).