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Ideas for DEE from CampusTech 2011
faculty advising board (functions as sounding board, communication with the rest of campus) public work encourages students to work harder because other students, and potentially future employees will see it. Same principle as the cohort experience. Have students use screencast-o-matic to share a presentation. Students can post them to YouTube. Then students can watch each […]
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Add Facebook to a regular Site
Hadn’t thought about this much, because… well frankly, Facebook just doesn’t cross my mind very often. Anyway, I noticed that someone had a FB comment feed on their regular website that was based in Facebook (it was an article David shared, funny in it’s own right)… So I thought cool, you can get some of […]
Extracting PowerPoint elements
Extracting images and audio from a PowerPoint is not too hard: Rename the file from filename.pptx to filename.zip Extract the ZIP Get your graphics and wav files from the Media folder within the zip Reference: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/extract-files-or-objects-from-a-powerpoint-2010-file-HA101821613.aspx
Kari Quote
“You must be made to feel the pain of decisions you make, or you’ll make bad decisions.” — K. Dickinson
Google Web Fonts
What don’t they do!? Google has open source fonts that you can embed in your website… so… it’s not just arial, verdana, and times, anymore? Well, ok it sort of is cause we love WordPress.com… but anyway, still very interesting. http://www.google.com/webfonts
Excel – Alternate row color
How to allow excel to maintain cell formatting even when resorting… In Excel, highlight your cells Under the Home tab, click on Conditional Formatting Select New Rule… Select Use a formula to determine which cells to format Set Format values where this formula is true: =MOD(ROW(),2)=0 Use the Format button to select a Fill color
Tal.ki – Embeddable Forum
Found a forum I’ll test for use with BbLearn… http://tal.ki/ Features It’s integrated with just about everything (Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) It’s embeddable into our sites Has Search Public/Private options Member avatars are displayed Cheap/free to test it out
