Many questions: from powerpoint to copyright

It was great meeting with Paula because she had so many questions. I've attempted to give a pithy response.. but if something needs more clarity, let me know in the comments below.

• What can we do with powerpoint in teaching and learning?
• For presentation, work with student texts in a way that students work either on the data projector or individually. You can include language and literacy learning activities in the presentation.
• You could work with the whole group of students using a powerpoint on the data projector, and then later put a copy in each student's folder.. so they can work on it individually. 
• A couple of blog posts at the North-West e-mentor blog focus on powerpoint for ESL:
• using powerpoint in the classroom 
• for blended learning just add ingredients..

• What's "the cloud" and how does it work?

• Good question: the cloud is partly for data storage, and partly for running applications. The cloud is kept in data factories all around the world. [More info about the cloud in a previous post.]