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Prezi is (free for educational use) web-based presentation software that allows you to create a map of your presentation instead of using slides. You can make your presentations public or private; you can download them for offline use if you’d… Read morePrezi: An Alternative to Presentation Slides
[UPDATED 12/8/2010: For further tips, tricks, and ideas for using QR codes, see this more recent post.] With the number of smartphones on the rise, such as AT&T’s iPhone or Verizon’s Droid, more and more of our students have this… Read moreQR Codes: Access a Website with Your Smartphone’s Camera
If you’re like me, email is a huge part of your work life. Are you using these Outlook time-savers? Managing attachments To add an attachment to an Outlook message, locate your document, left click and hold on the icon…. Read moreOutlook: Tips and Tricks
After a longer-than-planned hiatus, I’m back. And hopefully I have some new stuff that will make your teaching life easier! Last May I explained in a post how to use MS Word and Excel to create grade reports. As I… Read moreMail Merge: Creating Individualized Assignments
One of the most common complaints I hear about PowerPoint is that it is linear; when you run your PowerPoint, you’re locked into running it in the order in which you created it. This is simply not true. “Presenter view”… Read morePowerPoint 2007: Presenter View
A few days ago I was visiting with a colleague in his office. He was trying to find the most recent version of a particular file. He had one copy on his computer and one copy on his flashdrive, but… Read moreDropbox: Sync & Share Your Files Automatically
Last month I wrote about electronic grading. With regard to saving the assignment files from students I said, “The papers themselves are saved to a ‘Student papers’ folder in ‘My Documents.’ Each file I save is renamed with standard nomenclature:… Read moreEZDetach Outlook Attachments
As another academic year gets off the ground I’m shuttling more files around than I did all summer. I have folders, subfolders, and sub-subfolders on my C:\ drive and my college’s M:\ drive. I used to use the M:\ drive… Read moreNavigate Folders Faster: QuickJump
I joined Twitter some months ago, and then quickly became one of 60% U.S. Twitterers that Nielsen found didn’t return a month after joining. But now I have to do some rethinking. I’m a member of a social networking group… Read moreTwitter: There Are Educational Uses?
If you’re concerned about the flu virus and you haven’t moved to electronic grading, now might be a good opportunity to start. Managing email. As soon as I get an assignment, I hit reply, type “Got it,” then hit send…. Read moreElectronic Grading: Germ-Free!