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Converting Files to Different Formats
Do you ever need to convert files from a format someone sent you to something you can open in a program you actually have? Do you need to convert your PowerPoint files to HTML for the web? Here are a...
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Jing! It’s a wonderful thing!
Jing is a really great program that allows you to quickly capture your screen or a part of your screen as an image or a video. The program can be setup to run on startup and constantly run (on both Mac...
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MS Office 2007 Compatibility Pack
MS Office 2007 is quickly becoming the version of Microsoft Office that students are using in the labs and on their own machines. Office 2007 appends an “x” to the end of the existing office filetypes...
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Sharing Files Using Free Online Services
Sharing files can be a hassle when you have multiple files that are too large to email, so what options do you have? We looked at a few tools that are free and online that allow you and your students...
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Using Web Applications for Collaboration (Part 1) – Google Docs & Zoho
In the Afternoon Dessert series we discussed the topic of free web applications that are available and how they can be used for collaboration in the classroom (online or onground). Depending on what...
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Using Web Applications for Collaboration (Part 2) – Xythos & Wikis
To keep my posts a little shorter I decided to split up the information from the second session of the Afternoon Dessert series. I covered Google Docs and Zoho in the previous post and in this one I...
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Communication Tools That Help Students and Faculty Work Collaboratively
Our last installment of the Afternoon Dessert series was just before Thanksgiving so I am trying to catch up now. Nowadays students are not always living in the dorms or even in the same town when they...
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Webpage Email with Graphics
Problem Solving aka work-around by Stacey Plant I do not want to depend on a third party to deliver my html emails so here is what I did. I went to the html stationary that Microsoft Outlook uses and...
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Confessions of an IT Poser by Jessie Daniels
Jessie Daniels (Distance MBA Productions Manager) recently presented at the MTSU IT Conference. Her presentation, titled “Confessions of an IT Poser” focuses on tools, tricks and tips to help you...
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Is it real or is it Memorex?
Remember the old Memorex commercial with Ella Fitzgerald and the wine glass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhfugTnXJV4)? The reproduction was so realistic the wine glass shattered just the same. Now...
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Active Learning and Technology
So many students today have some sort of internet device with them in class that it just makes sense for faculty to use that technology to their advantage. How many times have we said “Students are...
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