The Hawks Talk

What features do you think the cell phone of the future will have? What tasks would you want that cell phone to be able to perform? 

As part of the Horizon Project, several students have envisioned the future of the cell phone.

 Here is a video by Atif, a student at the ISD school in Bangladesh, who is one of the students involved in this project. I learned of this video from the coolcatteacher blog. What marvelous ideas Atif displays!

Take a look at the presentation I have embedded in this post. I first discovered this incredible slide show, “Do You Know,” on Karl Fisch’s blog. Recently, Mr. Fisch permitted a young man named Jeff Brenman to remix the presentation. Mr. Berman’s new version won Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest.

Jeff’s version is awesome. Does this give you ideas for your next presentation?

I have also embedded a modified version of Mr. Fisch’s original presentation for the sake of comparison. This modified version was created by Scott McLeod. Mr. McLeod has removed slides that were specific to Mr. Fisch’s school district.
While the presentation was intended for educators, I think it is important for students to view.

Life After Death by PowerPoint
I found this amusing video by Don McMillan posted on the U Tech Tips web site. This humorous presentation highlights some of the mistakes many make when using PowerPoint. You will have to view the video from a computer outside of the school environment because the video is hosted on a MySpace web page.
Life After Death by PowerPoint

Update May 6, 2007 - I have included link to the story, “The Order,” for download.

Here is the video that propelled me into setting up a hosted blog. In the clip, I share a story I wrote during my senior year of high school. I posted this video to YouTube in December 2006. Enjoy!

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