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Blackboard 9.1 Feature Spotlight: Paste from Word

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February 16, 2012

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So you’ve toiled on a lengthy piece of text, and now you’d like to make this available to your students as a new announcement, content item, or threaded discussion in your Blackboard 9.1 site.  And let’s say you’ve really outdone yourself this time, too.  Using Microsoft Word, your page looks like a veritable Mona Lisa [...]

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Securing Your Mobile Device

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July 19, 2011

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During this busy travel season it is important to take some time and ensure that your mobile device is secure in case of loss or theft.  I know, no one wants to consider these possibilities, however unfortunate things can happen and having security measures in place on your device can help to make the experience [...]

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Breadcrumb – Where Hansel and Gretel meet Google

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May 25, 2011

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This past week I was taking a quick look around at what cool new things Google has brewing in the Labs (http://www.googlelabs.com/).  While I was there I stumbled across this cool new project called Breadcrumb. According to Google: “Breadcrumb is a platform to develop branching mobile learning scenarios for smartphones… The Google Breadcrumb stories might [...]

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Tools we use – Outlook Quick Parts

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January 13, 2011

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Do you find yourself sending the same email over and over again?  Maybe something like, “You can find information on the required readings in the syllabus, located at…” or “This class has the following grade scheme:  Labs – 20%, Quizzes – 20%…” Just a reminder that Outlook users can take advantage of a great little [...]

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Coding the Web With Style

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September 23, 2010

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Coding the web with style In a previous post, we covered the basics of HTML, the markup language of the internet. We explored ways to divide content into different kinds of contextual containers using tags, and we saw some rudimentary formatting as a result. But how do really style the web? How do we control [...]

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How to make a web page: HTML

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July 22, 2010

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Last week, we posted about the value of understanding HTML, the language of the web. While there are many tools that make website creation possible without requiring you to know any “code,” we feel that having a working knowledge of how the code behind a web page works is tremendously valuable. Today, we’re going to [...]

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Navigate Windows 7 like an Expert in the eClassroom and Beyond

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June 23, 2010

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This fall you may notice a new change in the eClassrooms on campus – Windows 7! The IT department has been actively deploying Microsoft Windows 7 to the campus computer labs and E-Classroom instructor workstations with the goal of completing the task by A-term 2010. Windows 7 offers a similar windows environment to Vista with [...]

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Speaking of Searching, just what can a simple Google search do?

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November 24, 2009

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Last week, the TTL blog talked about new and interesting search engines that provide information in a wealth of ways! But how can you make your simple Google searches more effective and efficient? Patrick Crispin, Instructional Technology Coordinator at California State University, Long Beach has done some research into Google and provides some hints as [...]

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Represent Your Ideas Visually

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October 14, 2009

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How do you begin a project? How do share your ideas with others? An outline? Just start typing and see what comes out? Lay out your references side by side and pull the main ideas from each before organizing into a general plan? Consider concept mapping! Concept mapping (or “graphic organizing”) is the process of [...]

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