Social Networks: How to Keep Up Like a Pro. Editor’s note: This post is contributed by Tom Chu. Tom is the SEO manager at PsPrint, an online printing company specializing in brochure and poster printing among other popular services. Follow PsPrint on Twitter. Before we begin, I should really mention one thing: the three major social network platforms I am referring to here are Google+, Facebook and Twitter.
Inevitably, there will be comments on this kind of article that will begin naming off the many other sites categorized under the big social media umbrella, be it Tumblr or YouTube or some obscure open-source social networking platform that only one in every 10 hipster has heard of. I am aware that others exist, and some might be preferred. (Image source: rafiqelmansy) With that out of the way, welcome! Recommended Reading: Powerful Branding Techniques Through Social Media Keeping Up With It All With so many profiles and different people on each one, it can be hard to keep up with them.
(Image source: David) Extended Share Hellotxt. SMART Notebook 11 now available! Digital Study Skills - Gist Reading. Studying and researching online is becoming an ever more important element of our digital skill set. I spend a lot of time reading online and skimming through numerous articles from journals and blogs, so I'm always keen to find useful tools which can assist me or my students in this and make the process more efficient. One tool which I have just discovered and which I hope will help with this process is Cruxbot.
It's a very simple to use 'bookmarklet' tool (a bookmarklet is a button that you drag onto your browser bookmarks bar). To get the bookmarklet go to: click on the 'Cruxbot' image. Hold your mouse down while you drag it to the bookmarks bar on your browser. Once the bookmarklet is installed just find an article that you want to read and then click on the bookmarklet (You can try this one on connectivism or this article from the BBC). When you click on the bookmarklet it will analyse the text and provide you with a summary of the main points. Connect your iPhone to Microsoft Office 365. Office 365, the cloud-based collaboration platform from Microsoft, can actually be iPhone-friendly. Will Kelly shows you how to connect your iPhone to Office 365. Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-based collaboration platform, is starting to get a lot of attention from Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) and enterprises wanting to outsource their Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange email, and Unified Communications (UC).
While some critics cite Office 365 as not being "mobile enough," the iPhone setup is quite friendly and certainly a time-saver for organizations that are used to managing more complicated smartphone/email server setups in house. LEARN MORE: Office 365 Consumer pricing and features Get access to Office 365 Whether you're a one-man shop, you work for a company that's moving to Office 365, or you just took a job with an employer that uses Office 365, you must have an Office 365 account prior to setting up your iPhone.
Figure A Mobile security policies and email access Figure E Figure F. The five best ways to switch between Google accounts. Examine the pros and cons of the five best ways to switch between Google accounts. Which way works the best for you? It’s an odd thing to have a gripe about all the cheap or free tools Google has given us, spread across multiple accounts, but here it is: It is nobody’s favorite thing to figure out how to keep your personal Gmail open, your work-related Docs, and maybe even a third account’s Calendar running. On a desktop, this is no big deal; on the web, because of the way authentication and cookies work, we have to be a bit more clever. So let’s look at all the clever, obvious, and hey-it-works ways of managing multiple Google accounts on one system.
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He wasn't accepting my explanations so I went to my Common Craft library and pulled up Computer Viruses and Threats Explained by Common Craft. After watching the video we talked about creating strong passwords to reduce the risk of having an account compromised. Applications for Education If you're trying to teach your parents, students, or anyone else how to protect their computers and personal information, these videos can be helpful. Use Google Forms To Collect Contact Info On A Mobile Device. If you belong to a group or organization which still collects contact information during an event or meeting using the traditional pen and paper method, it’s time to get into the digital age.You don’t have to go far for the solution. Using Google Forms, you can collect names, emails, and other contact information on your computer or mobile device that supports mobile browsing.
All the data is saved to a spread sheet which can be used for various purposes. Creating a Form To create a Google form, sign into your Google account and click on Documents in the menu bar. Next, click the Create button and select the Form tool. You can add various types of input data items to your Google Form, e.g., Text boxes, Multiple choice responses, Choose from a list. Click on the Add item button in the Forms editor and familiarize yourself with the type of items available. Of course, you will also want to collect simple contact information (e.g. name, email, phone number) using text boxes. Selecting Theme. Quick Tip: Apply a uniform size to all charts on an Excel sheet. After adding several charts to a sheet, you might want to adjust their sizes so they're all the same. You can do so manually or by using the easy macro.
When you create a chart, Excel adjusts the chart's size, depending on space, labels, number of data points, and so on. So, you might want to adjust the size of each chart so they're all the same. There's not much work to forcing a chart's size after the fact, but the task might become redundant if you have several charts or if you have to resize a few charts often. Fortunately, you can create a multiple selection and enter the appropriate size dimensions for all of the charts, at once. Let's illustrate this simple manual technique on the charts shown below.
If one of the charts is about the right size, select it and note its dimensions by clicking the contextual Format tab. To assign the same size dimensions to all of the charts at the same time, do the following: Sub ResizeCharts() 'Make all charts on active sheet uniform size. Next End Sub. Insert a shortcut that will quickly end your PowerPoint presentation. If rushed for time, you can use this technique to quickly end a presentation, without looking like you've shortchanged the audience.
If a presentation needs to end suddenly, you can click through the remaining slides, without stopping to comment on them, but there's a smoother and quicker alternative to get to the last slide - a technique that's so effortless that your audience will never know that they've missed part of the presentation. To illustrate this shortcut technique, we'll add a custom action button that links to the final slide in a presentation. By adding this action button to the Slide Master, the button is available on all slides so you can click it at any time.
To get started, open a presentation - any presentation will do, but I'll be working with a presentation that comprises four blank slides and a final slide that contains a list of rolling credits. To add the action button to every slide, do the following: In your presentations, you can be more selective. Intro to Google Docs Drawing. Add a pie chart to a Word document without opening Excel.
You can bypass Excel and insert a pie chart into a Word document, from inside Word. Susan Harkins explains. You can easily add a chart to a Word document, without first creating the chart in Excel. That's right, you don't have to be familiar with Excel to display a decent chart in a Word document-and it's easy! First, position the cursor where you want to insert the chart. Most likely, that will be before or after a paragraph that discusses the information expressed by the chart.
Click the Insert tab and then click the Chart option in the Illustrations group. With the chart in Word, you can format it. Although we created a pie chart, you can insert any number of chart types. 10 Ways To Quickly Use the iPad. 10 Principles of Successful E-Learning | OEB Newsportal. In 2005, Professors Anderson and McCormick wrote A Common Framework for E-learning Quality and Ten Pedagogic Principles of E-Learning, describing an approach to the development of effective e-learning programs.
According to Professors Anderson and McCormick, the Ten Principles may help designers to construct pedagogically sound e-learning materials and related activities. The principles may also help teachers to choose resources; design teaching and learning activities based on those resources; and support such activities while they take place. Explore the Ten Pedagogic Principles of E-Learning as defined by Anderson and McCormick and see how they are applied through the itslearning platform. Anderson and McCormick state that there is an implicit assumption in their approach that the more of the ten principles are embodied, the better the quality of the pedagogy; and the fewer embodied principles, the lower the quality.
The pedagogy should engage and motivate learners. 10 Tech Tools for Teacher Training Courses. Over the summer I was running a number of two week ICT in language teaching courses for teachers from around the world. The courses were part of the Bell summer campus at Homerton College Cambridge. This was the first time in a while I had been asked to teach such long courses and i thought it was a great opportunity to see if I could fundamentally change the way the teachers related to technology, not just in the classroom as a tool for teaching learners, but as a tool within their everyday working practice. As sub goals I set out to run the course with absolutely no paper. That meant no photocopied handouts and no paper based note taking from trainees.
I wanted to push these teachers to the point where they could work totally in the digital medium and where paper became totally unnecessary. I would like to add that this course took place in a computer room with 1 Internet connected computer per teacher. TodaysMeet This was my fundamental communication tool. Related links: Best Nik Peachey. 10 most important things to teach your Word users. Sharing these tips and precautions with your Word users will help them become more confident and proficient -- which is a win for everyone (including you).
Most people can use Word right out of the box, which has its pros and cons. The pros are obvious, but Word has some complex features and tools that can quickly land a user in hot water. The following tips will help your users avoid troublesome issues and adapt to the environment quickly. 1: Don't be afraid to call support Encourage users to learn new features on their own -- experiment and learn! But also encourage them not to waste time trying to work through a problem or new feature on their own if they're really lost. 2: Use styles Users who don't understand styles hate them and refuse to use them. 3: Don't alter the template Chances are, you've distributed a few templates to your users. 4: Rely on [Ctrl]+Z Probably the most important thing you can teach users is how to undo actions using [Ctrl]+Z. 5: Keep it simple Other tips? Writing Tips & Practice With Dragon Dictation Mobile Apps [iOS]
Nuance’s iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon Search have been available for free download for over a year now. Since then, the company has added a few other similar voice to text apps to its line of desktop and mobile applications. It’s even rumored that Nuance has partnered with Apple to infuse voice commands within the next iPhone. On top of all that, PC users have enjoyed the power and effectiveness of Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking for writing dictation for several years. These voice recognition programs have come a long way, but before you spend the money on a computer version of Dragon Dictate, you might want to practice the art of writing dictation using one of the mobile iOS versions of Dictate, especially the app optimized for the iPad.
I’m actually dictating this article using Dragon Dictate for the Mac. Typing Speed vs Dictation Speed First off, to see just how much faster Dragon can type than you can, take a quick online typing test. Reading vs Writing Practice Dictation. Word 2010: Use both Portrait and Landscape orientation in one document. When creating a document, you may need to use both portrait and landscape orientation since document content does not always fit in one orientation. Here is how to use both of them in your document in Word 2010. We’ll demonstrate this using a blank document. 1. Launch Microsoft Word and create a new document. 2. Go to the last page that you want to keep in portrait mode. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. YouTube - Professor Moodle's Channel. Word 2007 Inserting YouTube Videos Into Word. Wireless Network Connection Troubleshooting. Why You Need To Use Storytelling For Learning. SumoMe I’m sure you’ve heard by now that storytelling can make learning more effective.
Stories help us process and remember information. Perhaps they even touch a part of our consciousness associated with the magic and creativity of childhood. In my desire to become a better storyteller, I attended a session on the subject while at the Presentation Summit, a conference where the topics overlap surprisingly well with the interests of training professionals and learning specialists. Here are the key points I gathered from a session titled, The Art of Storytelling, presented by Jon Thomas. I modified them for learning experience designers as needed. 1. Much of what people remember from a learning experience are the feelings of the underlying message rather than a multitude of small facts (which are better reserved for job aids). 2. Any kind of presentation—whether it be online training or a live presentation—will benefit from a story construction. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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