Teachers Talking Technology

Category: Desktop

  • Is anyone using Evernote?

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    dstoll

    I am seriously considering moving to this for organizing my notes, but I’d like to hear stories, good or bad, if anyone is using it for their professional life.

  • Using spotlight comments for class files

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    kchamber

    There are many posts describing how you can use spotlight comments (or tags in Windows) to organize your files, but I wanted to highlight a few examples of why using comments/tags would be useful to faculty members–tracking course materials that are used in multiple courses and establishing a portfolio of student work. Tracking course materials Often you…

  • Office Add-in for Moodle

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    kchamber

    Microsoft Education Labs has released a Moodle add-in. The Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) is an add-in for Microsoft Office (versions 2003 and 2007) that allows teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website. Future versions will also allow students to save directly to Moodle from Microsoft Office products,…

  • Preventing sleep using caffeine

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    kchamber

    You might be demonstrating how to do video editing in Final Cut Pro or showing students how to collaborate on a word processing document using Google Docs.  You stop to answer a few questions, look up, and the screen saver has started or the computer has even gone to sleep.  Previously, I left myself reminders…

  • Screen recording

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    kchamber

    In classes or research collaborations, you may need to demonstrate how to perform certain computer tasks such as, creating a Figure in Excel, contributing to a Moodle forum, or searching for journal articles in a discipline-specific database. While doing these demonstrations, you could use screen recording software to record your actions and then make these…