Tech Minutes #4 - Blogs

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Web Logs or "blogs" provide a simple tool to increase class interaction and sharing of links, resources and comments. Setting up and posting a blog is very low impact that almost anybody can do.

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Look for TechMinutes #5 next Monday.

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-Mike

Tech Minutes #3 - "Coursecasting" Lecture Audio

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Not sure students are getting every word of your lecture? With a small amount of effort, you can provide on-demand recordings of your lectures, either for review or to disseminate material before classtime.

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Look for TechMinutes #4 next Monday.

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Tech Minutes #2 - Smart USB Drives

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Most of us use our USB drives as simple storage containers to move data from one place to another. But you can make your USB drive work much harder for you...

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Tech Minutes #1 - Relational Presentations

Ever feel that your Powerpoint lecture was driving you? Ever find that class discussion has taken a different tangential turn than you had planned on when building your class lecture?? This week's inaugural Tech Minutes looks at a different way to approach presenting lectures with Powerpoint.
Relational Presentation is a concept developed by Robert Lane of Aspire Communications. It is a technique that allows you to lecture much more dynamically with Powerpoint, breaking out of the lockstep of the order of your slides.
With this technique, your class lectures can be responsive and dynamic each time you present them. There is a link at the end of this presentation that will take you to a longer (11 minute) flash presentation that goes into more detail on this technique.

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I hope you will find these presentations useful to you. Look for the next one next Monday :)
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