Posts Tagged ‘Software’
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
Microsoft Office and OpenOffice have similar technical capabilities, and OpenOffice is a good substitute for students who are unable or unwilling to purchase MS Office. Although incompatibilities between the two products are already quite rare, the use of mutually supported file formats will minimize the remaining risk.
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Tags: office, open source, OpenOffice, Software
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 are attending classes and with online classes, really they could be anywhere. We talked about several software programs [...]
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Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Software
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 would like to talk about Wikis and Xythos. We briefly talked about Wikis during the session and [...]
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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 the goal is and what end product is necessary there are different tools available. If a final paper needs to be turned [...]
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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 or student groups to share files with each other. How can you use this service? [...]
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Tags: sharing, Software, Workshops
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 (Ex: .docx, .pptx, .xlsx) If you do not have MS Office 2007 in your office or on your home [...]
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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 and Windows) so that when you need to capture something on your screen you [...]
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