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iPixSoft Flash Gallery Factory will help you to make professional flash gallery of photos, video clips and music. It provides various transition effects, funny cliparts and a rich set of flash gallery templates. You can easily present photos in gallery mode and save output as SWF flash, Exe file, HTML 5 video or common video format file. Features Import photos and video clips. Add your background music. 9 pre-designed Gallery Templates. 70+ transition effects include swift and push effects. Decorate with 150+ high quality animated clipart. Add hyperlink for the slides. Multiple Output Formats. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ipixsoft-flash-gallery-factory/

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PresentationTube provides a free video presentation recorder and video sharing network to help teachers, students, and business professionals record, upload and share video presentations in a new way. The recorder synchronizes a variety of visual aids, including presenter's audio and video footage, PowerPoint slides, drawings, handwritten words, and web content. PresentationTube helps presenters to involve the audience via scrollable slide thumbnails, comments, and quizzes with unlimited video storage and delivery. http://presentationtube.net

PhotoPeach helps you  tell better stories online using photos . With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further. Photopeach is used by educators and students in hundreds of schools world wide, including schools in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, England, Pakistan, Argentina,Thailand, and more. The combination of images, music, and text helps students learn about presentation, expression, writing, communication skills, art appreciation, and media literacy. The quality of the finished work is great and students will remember it forever. Start creating fun slideshows with captions, soundtracks, quizzes, and easy editing controls! http://photopeach.com

Presentation applications are increasing in popularity and providing powerful tools for creation of instructional materials and accessible information in audio-visual formats. When used appropriately, these tools can support and extend traditional presentations in valuable ways. In classroom settings, MS PowerPoint, for example, has become the dominant presentation tool because it is both readily available and easy-to-use by instructors (Grabe & Grabe 2007).  It allows instructors to create and manipulate presentations in a wide variety of contexts that can enhance student’s interest and engagement (Mills & Roblyer 2006). In addition, it helps instructors clearly identify the main points of a topic or activity while still providing the details through presentation (Loisel & Galer, 2004). Instructors can incorporate multiple types of media formats (e.g., diagram, photo, drawing, sound and video) that cannot be easily integrated together into one single medium. L...

Historically and culturally, the Arab countries have many features in common, in particular from the linguistic and tradition standpoints; however, it is in many respects highly inconsistent in terms of population, national income, prosperity, stability, infrastructure, literacy rate, and information resources. The estimated overall population of the Arab countries in 2010-2011 was just over 360 million with over half under 25 years of age. Almost a quarter of the Arab world live in the most populated country of the region, Egypt. The number of Internet users in 2011 was estimated to be 86 million users (United Nations, 2011). Although distance education has a short history in the Arab world, for many, within the last ten years, the interest in distance education in the Arab world was enhanced dramatically as a result of the changes in society, culture, economy, employment, and information technology (Al-Harthi, 2005). This interest resulted in a remarkable increase in the distan...

While there are tens of photo-hosting applications on the Web, one of the most innovative is Flickr. Flickr is a photo management and sharing online application that provides a place to share photos and meet people with similar interests, even if photography is not their focus. Using Flickr, users can upload, download, tag, rate, and c om ment on photos. Users can manage and organize images, and create private or public groups to cultivate a sense of c om munity.   Flickr offers a vast collection of images that are not available elsewhere, and its collaborative tools have made it popular in higher education. Flickr contains imagery that can be used in teaching to help develop visual literacy skills. University instructors have begun using Flickr images in their courses to share, critique, and analyze visual information. In addition, the design of Flickr intentionally promotes the development of community. The ability to engage users in a conversation about a photo, and to u...