MagPointer: PowerPoint Add-on

MagPointer is a PowerPoint add-on (Windows only) that allows you to highlight certain areas of your PowerPoint slides on the fly. Although designed with web-based presentations in mind, it works well in the face-to-face classroom. In the screenshot below you… Read moreMagPointer: PowerPoint Add-on

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Gmail: Canned Responses

I use Phrase Express for all of my canned response needs (see this post, for example), but for those of you who just want canned responses in Gmail, check out this Google Labs option. Enabling Canned Responses In Gmail, go… Read moreGmail: Canned Responses

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PowerPoint: Animating Charts

I was recently putting together a PowerPoint 2010 presentation that had a lot of charts in it. I wanted to reveal the data gradually, so I looked for a way to animate. It’s easy to do, if not entirely intuitive…. Read morePowerPoint: Animating Charts

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Google Calendar: Adding Attachments

I’m attending a workshop at a nearby college in a couple weeks, and the organizer has already emailed me a parking pass to print and bring with me. As I was thinking about where to save the parking pass so… Read moreGoogle Calendar: Adding Attachments

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Create Your Own Website: Weebly

I’m often asked about the easiest way to set up a website. While the course management systems are fine for, well, managing courses, if you want students to access information before or after the course a personal website is a… Read moreCreate Your Own Website: Weebly

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YouCanBook.Me: Now with Tentative Appointments

My favorite appointment scheduling service, YouCanBook.Me, lets people book themselves into your calendar. (See this earlier blog post for more about how YouCanBook.Me works.) One hesitation in using the service I’ve heard from faculty is that they want students to… Read moreYouCanBook.Me: Now with Tentative Appointments

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Print Friendly: Only Print What You Need

Print Friendly lets you print what you’d like from a webpage. For example, let’s say that you wanted to print a post from my blog. If you used the print capability of your web browser, you’d get something like this…. Read morePrint Friendly: Only Print What You Need

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ZoomIt: Draw on Your Screen [Windows]

ZoomIt was designed to let a presenter zoom into a particular portion of the screen. For most presentations I don’t need a zoom, but I would like to be able to draw. Of course PowerPoint gives you drawing tools, but… Read moreZoomIt: Draw on Your Screen [Windows]

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File Conversion: Zamzar

For some of my assignments, students are asked to write them in a word processor and email them to me as an attachment. In the most recent batch of student papers, one arrived with a .pages extension. Since I don’t… Read moreFile Conversion: Zamzar

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QTT: Only quote what you want (Gmail)

Quick Tech Tip for Gmail users. Want to quote just part of an email message in your reply instead of the entire message? Highlight the text you want, and then click the reply button or tap the ‘r’ key on… Read moreQTT: Only quote what you want (Gmail)

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