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Inking capabilities in Windows Journal on a Tablet PC are fluid and easier to manipulate than most inking applications. Import your Power Point slides into Windows Journal and ink away without stray lines that randomly appear and get in the way of clear communication.
Launch Windows Journal
Select File >> Import (A popup window will appear and [...]
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Tags: digital-ink, journal, tablet
Accessing the CMAT Server
CMAT is a new server intended for faculty use as a storage place for Course MATerials. These materials can include text files, videos etc. and can be easily linked to in your iLearn course. To access your CMAT folder, open your favorite FTP program (I will be using FileZilla [download here: https://www.ohloh.net/projects/filezilla/download?filename=FileZilla_3.2.7_win32-setup.exe]). From the ‘File’ [...]
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Creating Content Using eXe
This summer we found a very useful and affordable tool (because it is free!). It is called eXe and it is for creating learning materials for your class. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and even has a version that will run from a USB drive or CD. This one runs on Windows only [...]
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Here is another great web app that will do just that.
“This free online image Web Resizer helps you optimize photos for web or email. Easy to use. Amazing results!
The pictures that come out of a digital camera are too big [...]
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Tags: Image-size, Photos, Resolution
Lifehacker.com, a great productivity blog, has done a couple of really useful posts in the last week or so regarding some free utilities for malware removal and data recovery.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with these terms, malware–often called spyware–consists of tiny, sneaky programs that usually install themselves without your knowledge and are often difficult to [...]
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If you have ever said “I need more hours in a day” then check out these time-saver apps for what can be tedious tasks. They may not give you back hours in your day but every minute counts. The sign-up alone for most applications is time consuming requiring specifically formatted passwords and account verifications with [...]
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Tags: Collaboration, open source, sharing, Social Media, Tools
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 achieve your distance education goals. She looks at different open source, free and fee-based software options that are available. This presentation covers some great tools [...]
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Tags: open source, Software
Many of us use MS Word to create our handouts, content and resources for instruction but when we move our content online it is not always the best way for students. Yes, this might be the easiest way for us but we need to consider that not all students have Microsoft Office at home. Many [...]
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Tags: Content Creation, D2L, HTML
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 added my custom webpage to that same directory. Now I can pull up my own “stationary”, newsletter [...]
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Tags: Graphic Design, HTML, HTML email, web
This blog is setup to allow the support people at the Technology Institute to try to post new information about software we support, projects we are working on, workshops and other items of interest for faculty.
We have multiple things that we support and are currently working. Some of the major items are:
iLearn (Desire2Learn)
Tablet Initiative
NSF Grant [...]
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