A response to PowerPoint Remix Rant by Mike Caulfield.
Mike laments how the long list of specialized graphical tools in PowerPoint is a recipe for making Open Ed Resources that are next to impossible to reuse, remix, and repurpose to other contexts.
Most things work like this, unfortunat...
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