On the 'informed use' of PowerPoint: Rejoining Vallance and Towndrow

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 229-233

  Adams, Catherine ^a  

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Author keywords

Information and communication technology uses in education; Microsoft PowerPoint; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349006344     PISSN: 00220272     EISSN: 13665839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220270601175246     Document Type: Article

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