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Why Use Web 2.0 Presentation Tools?
"Social media is **collaborative**, **visual** and **creative**; a new kind of online media that encompasses **text-based content** and **multimedia**, but also adds **interactivity**...[Presentation] Web 2.0 tools...enable students to **create**, **publish**, and **share** multimedia. It's about **creating** or **remixing** content, audio, video, images or photographs, text, or their combinations, and **posting** the content on the World Wide Web for everyone to see and use."

Source: //Pam Berger in [|Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World]// (bold is mine)

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Ten Reasons to Use Web-Based Media Tools in Education
> //Pam Berger in [|Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World]//
 * 1) Helps students to visualize ideas
 * 2) Creates an environment of active participants, often collaborative in nature.
 * 3) Encourages self-expression and creativity.
 * 4) Promotes differentiated instruction and addresses multiple intelligences and learning styles.
 * 5) Incorporates various media for differentiation and multi-sensory experiences.
 * 6) Facilitates editing content.
 * 7) Enhances learning (comprehension and retention) by using audio and visual elements.
 * 8) Raises student interest and motivation.
 * 9) Allows students to address a larger audience than just the teacher or classmates.
 * 10) Encourages students to use technology resources that many students are already familiar with and using for personal purposes.