i>clicker inventor, Tim Stelzer, presents “Models and Best Practices for Using Clickers” at the University of Michigan on September 1, 2010.
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New to the Mac environment? Want to touch up your skills on OS X? Take a look at the following tutorial. Originally made for a Visual Communication Technology course at BGSU (an updated, edited version for U of M will be made available soon), this PDF will take you step-by-step through the Mac operating system. Simply download the file and open using Adobe Reader (do not open using Preview). It will open full-screen and will guide you through Apple OS X.
Please visit our wiki to download the tutorial:
http://g333.pbworks.com/Computer-Basics
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While PowerPoint is a relatively powerful piece of presentation software, it has it’s limits. Many times, presenters want to visit a web site in the middle of their presentation. In order to do so, they must exit presentation mode and open up a web browser. The same thing must be done to play YouTube videos (unless the user downloads them using 3rd party websites/software). I recently came across two free PowerPoint Add-ins (PC only) that will allow the presenter to do both of these things from within their presentation.
The first one is called LiveWeb. Upon installation, it allows the user to add live web pages to their slides. Simply go to the “LiveWeb” tool, click “Web Page”, and a wizard guides them through the process. Once the page has been added, it can be resized and moved to fit within the slide. Continue reading
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U-M’s Health Sciences Libraries presents this slideshow of cool tech applications or webservices.
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For those of you who do a lot of Twittering, and those of you looking to do more Twittering, and maybe those of you completely baffled altogether by Twittering, this handy little document lists 201 free tools that can help you use Twitter more effectively. Effective Twittering, it’s not an oxymoron anymore.
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Why should teachers embrace Twitter?
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