How to highlight selected text on a PowerPoint slide

November 19, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Posted in hands-on | Leave a comment
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It can be useful for a tutor to highlight selected words or phrases on a presentation slide, and to control when that highlighting appears. In response to a query about how to achieve this, I’ve recorded a short 7-minute video that shows two methods of achieving this effect – one involves duplicate slides while the other uses animated boxes… I find the first method easier.

You can find the video on EdShare

How to import files from your J drive into Teamsite

November 13, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Posted in systems | Leave a comment
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LATEU uses the Teamsite ‘content management system’ to maintain our own website and also the Quality Handbook. The latter in particular is based around documents stored on the J drive, so it was a pain in the neck when Teamsite recently stopped being able to import files from the J drive and would only ‘see’ our personal My Documents and My Desktop folder. OK, so we could copy files from J to our desktop when we wanted to import them, but that is a lousy work-around. ServiceLine were unfortunately unable to offer any advice. Luckily, Fiona Grindey remembered encountering a similar problem a while back which was solved by Dan Smith, the Teamsite guru (who moved on during InEx), and after fiddling around solved the problem. Hurrah! This video shows the fix – I hope you find it helpful (sorry, University staff only).

Four short lessons on podcasting

August 10, 2009 at 10:53 am | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a comment
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Four really useful blog posts from Michael Hanley, covering the importance of pace, pitch, projection and pauses in creating effective educational podcasts. Audio examples allow you to hear what he is talking about.

Of course, good lecturers already make use of these techniques in their teaching, but podcasts rely on them because they are are audio-only.

New zapper tutorials

July 13, 2009 at 11:10 am | Posted in useful links | Leave a comment
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After a lengthy struggle with Teamsite, the updated LATEU website is finally available online – and so are two new video tutorials about the use of Turning Point zappers. The first covers the use of the Participant Monitor to evaluate student performance duing the lecture, while the second show you how to use the Turning Reports software to review their performance later in your office.

It can be useful to review student performance during a lecture so you can see if there a few individual students who clearly need further help – although the fact that we distribute the handsets randomly means you won’t know who those students are… but they will know.

Using Learning Technologies to Bend Space and Time

June 4, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a comment
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This was the wildy inaccurate title of a talk I recently gave in the School of Chemistry – the subject was really about techniques to record lectures so that students can view them at a time and place of their choosing. This is a particular concern for Chemistry and Phyiscs owing to timetabling problems with their joint Natural Sciences degree.

A recording of this talk is available on Screencast.com, a video-sharing site linked with the Camtasia Studio software I use.

After the break are some details of how I made the recording Continue Reading Using Learning Technologies to Bend Space and Time…

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