Tools and Tricks of the Trade
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
Bob Jensen
Emeritus Professor of Accounting
Trinity University in San Antonio
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
603-823-8482
rjensen@trinity.edu
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/
“Therein
lies the real trouble. Learning is labor. We're selling the
fantasy that technology can change that. It can’t. No technology
ever has. Gutenberg’s press only made it easier to print books, not
easier to read and understand them.”
Peter Berger, "The Land of iPods and Honey," The Irascible Professor, February 26, 2007 --- at
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-02-26-07.htm
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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History and Future of Course Authoring and Distribution
Technologies http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/290wp/290wp.htm
Local Link --- ..\..\290wp\290wp.htm
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Organizing your papers and citations from the Web
Sharing and remotely accessing your bookmarks
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New Tools
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Open Sharing and Adaptive Hypermedia
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History of Spreadsheets in Education
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Bye Bye Chalkboard
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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The Future of Textbooks
Devices and Systems for Mobile Learning
Distance Education Magazines and
Journals http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm#Resources
Resources for Faculty --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm
The Latest Experiments in Student Recruitment by Colleges
Finding, Capturing, Storing and Sending Open Courseware
PowerPoint and Other Teaching Helpers
(Socratic Dialogue Gives Way to PowerPoint)
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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How to Add Audio to PowerPoint Presentations
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Future Lab (in the U.K.):
Developing innovative learning resources and practices that
support new approaches to education for the 21st century.
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Just-In-Time Teaching
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Classroom, Building, and Campus Design (including LCD versus
DLP)
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Innovative Cell Phone Technology
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Response Pads and Clickers
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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Tablet Computing
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Myths About Education Technologies
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Ideas for Modifying Traditional Classroom Materials Into Online
Learning Materials
(Including Updates on MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative called
OKI)
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Edutainment and Learning Games
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Virtual Reality
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Humor in Online Teaching
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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Example From a Texas A&M Professor Providing Distance
Education in Mexico
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Ideas for Teaching Online (including Distance Education via
Centra Symposium and Webex)
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Tools for Learning in the Boondocks
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Technology Aids for the Handicapped, Disabled, and Learning
Challenged
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How To and How Not To Deliver Distance Education
War stories from teachers in the first accredited online MBA
program.
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Cognitive Processes and Artificial Intelligence
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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Interactive Network Simulation Learning Example
Advantages and Disadvantages of Education Technologies
Chris Dede's Vignettes
An Example of a Low Budget and Very Remarkable Online
Course
Knowledge Portals and Vortals
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/portals.htm
Educause Live --http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=34&bhcp=1
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Tools & Tricks of Education Technology
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\thetools.htm
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Web Page Design: Ah, What Rotten Webs We Weave
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Resources --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm#Resources
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\newfaculty.htm
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Classroom Use of Laptops and iPods
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Wikis Made Simple -- Very Simple
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ListServs
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AECM (Educators) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/aecm/
AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for
discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in
any way for accounting education at the college/university level.
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
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CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the
practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment
where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to
accounting can be freely discussed.
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Zotero Firefox Extension
Zotero is a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser,
that enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all
types of sources from the browser. It is partly a piece of reference
management software, used to manage bibliographies and
references when writing essays and articles. On many major
research websites such as digital libraries, Google Scholar, or even
Amazon.com, Zotero detects when a book, article, or other
resource is being viewed and with a mouse click finds and saves
the full reference information to a local file. If the source is an
online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a local copy
of the source. Users can then add notes, tags, and their own
metadata through the in-browser interface. Selections of the local
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reference
library data can later be exported as formatted
Adding Media to PowerPoint
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PowerPoint --- On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the
following: Insert a sound fileClick Sound from File, locate the folder that contains the
file that you want, and then double-click the file. Insert a sound clip from Clip Organizer
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Camtasia adds a toolbar to PowerPoint
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Click Sound from Clip Organizer, Swishpix (Not Free) --- www.swhishzone.com Richard Campbell created a Swishpix Valentine card at
http://www.virtualpublishing.net/annrjc/annrjc.html
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Playstream (Not Free) --- www.playstream.com|
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Other alternatives --https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/UIUCMM/Adding+audio+to+Powerpoint
Also see http://www.sameshow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2755
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PowerPoint FAQ --- http://pptfaq.com/index.html
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Online Tutorials
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Examples of Bob Jensen’s Free Accounting Tutorials
FAS 133/IAS 39 --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Calgary/CD/
FAS 157/FAS 159 --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Calgary/CD/FairValue/
Accounting Systems and Accounting Theory Videos
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
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Most CPA Review Publishers Now Have Online Tutorials
Bisk, Gleim, Wiley, Lambers, Kaplan, etc.
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NACUBO --- http://www.nacubo.org/x1279.xml
Local Link --- ..\Miscellaneous\NACUBO.htm
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Mathematics Examples
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Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles -- http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
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Bob Jensen's threads on mathematics and
statistics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
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Other Free Tutorial Links
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Free Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science
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Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
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Free Education Discipline Tutorials --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
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Free Education and Research Videos from Harvard University --http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp
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PBS Video Tutorials for Teachers
Go to
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
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What are real time virtual office hours?
They operate a bit like a course chat room with some
added features and an instructor or teaching fellow is
in the room at all times.
As reported in The Harvard Crimson on Monday, teaching fellows
(Harvard parlance for TAs) for the course this semester will begin
holding real-time, online help sessions for students this week.
Using free, Java-based software, students can log on, chat with
each other (via text or microphone) and even “raise their hands”
with the click of a button, which adds them to a queue on the
teaching fellow’s computer.
Andy Guess, "Office Hours: Coming to a Computer Near You,"
Inside Higher Ed, September 18, 2007 --http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/18/officehours
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Conferencing
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Set up free conference calls at http://www.freeconference.com/
Also see http://www.yackpack.com/uc/
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Acrobat Connect provides web-conferencing capabilities within
Reader for a competitive price to www.gotomeeting.com
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Blackboard, WebCT, and other chat rooms.
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Zotero software for storing, retrieving, organizing,
and annotating digital documents --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
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Zotero is a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser,
that enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all
types of sources from the browser. It is partly a piece of reference
management software, used to manage bibliographies and
references when writing essays and articles. On many major
research websites such as digital libraries, Google Scholar, or even
Amazon.com, Zotero detects when a book, article, or other
resource is being viewed and with a mouse click finds and saves
the full reference information to a local file. If the source is an
online article or web page,
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Zotero software for storing, retrieving, organizing,
and annotating digital documents --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
Zotero can optionally store a local copy of the source. Users can
then add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the inbrowser interface. Selections of the local reference library data
can later be exported as formatted bibliographies.The program is
produced by the Center for History and New Media of George
Mason University and is currently available in public beta. It is
open and extensible, allowing other users to contribute citation
styles and site translators, and more generally for others who are
building digital tools for researchers to expand the platform. The
name is from Albanian language "to master".
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Free Electronic Books and Journals
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Many textbooks are now free online, some of which are
using advertisement revenues to make up for the loss of
sales revenues --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Local Link
..\..\ElectronicLiterature.htm
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Many journals are now free on line. A great example
early was the Journal of Accountancy (which made
archives also free) --http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/joahome.htm
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Fee Electronic Books and Journals
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When Adobe PDF files became much more protective of
copyrights, many textbook publishers and academic
journals commenced to make their new publications
available in PDF files. Often the digitized versions are
much cheaper than hard copy, although some students
and their professors still prefer hard copy in spite of the
text search advantages of the digitized versions.
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One problem with PDF books and journals is that
reading laptop screens is often tedious and holding
laptops in not comfortable in chairs and beds.
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e-Book Readers Other Than Computers
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e-Book readers were available since the 1990s. In
general, they are smaller and more comfortable to hold
than laptop computers.
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In most cases e-Books are even more secure for
publishers than Adobe PDF files.
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e-Book Readers Other Than Computers
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Early e-Book readers having Web sites for downloading
books and journals included Rocket e-Book, Everybook,
and Microsoft’s Softbook Electronic Tablet.
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Electronic reader sellers provide online libraries for easy
scanning, purchasing, and instant downloading.
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Electronic reader sellers allow purchased books to be
“stored” at their Website and downloaded over and over
again to reduce storage space required by users.
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Advantages of e-Books
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Search and cross reference (hypertext, hypermedia)
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Library in a box rather than a room or building
Can easily carry hundreds of books in a reader no larger
than a single hard copy book
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Free storage on various Web servers
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Ease of holding and retrieving stored books
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Can vary size of reading fonts and screen lighting
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Can read in a dark or dimly lit room
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No trees cut for paper
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Easy to add audio for blind readers
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Advantages of -eBooks
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Can add margin notations and highlights
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Lost books are easily replaced.
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Rare or hard-to-find books easily available
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Digital versions much cheaper to inventory, distribute,
and sell --- no trucks or bookstores
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Ease of browsing for books
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Errors easy to correct
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Additions and changes in real time for new editions
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Disadvantages of -eBooks
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Require computers or specialized readers
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Books not compatible with competing readers
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Companies making a particular reader may go out of
business. In contrast, hard copy books can be preserved
for thousands of years.
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Publishers and authors fear hacking to violate copyright
protections. But hard copy can be photocopied or
scanned cheaply into computers.
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No legal market for “used” electronic books
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2007 Update on the Sony Reader
Nearly 10 Months After its debut, the Sony Reader is
hardly a game changer. Reviews of the tiny handheld
book-reading device have been tepid at best, and Sony
Corp. has consistently declined to release sales figures,
which just might tell you something. But Sony isn't
backing away. In fact, as speculation continues in
publishing circles that book e-tailing giant Amazon.com
is planning to come out with its own portable reader,
Sony is launching a number of initiatives to give its
Reader more sizzle.
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2007 Update on the Sony Reader
The market for digital books is nascent, and Sony,
despite the Reader's less-than-splashy debut, still sees its
potential, he half-inch-thick Sony Reader, which can
store about 80 electronic books, allows readers to flip
pages and adjust the type size. It sells for about $300,
and digital book downloads range from $2 to $20 apiece.
Business Week, September 3, 2007 --http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_36/b4048065.
htm?link_position=link9
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Sony Portable Reader System --- Click Here
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See Also --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Book
See also
Blook
Digital library
List of digital library projects
Dynabook
Elibrary
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See Also --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Book
See also
Expanded Books
Networked book
Webserial
OpenReader Consortium
Project Gutenberg
Project OpenBerg
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Bob Jensen’s e-Book Website
Web Address --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm
Local Access --- ..\..\ebooks.htm
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Interactive Two-Way Video
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UserView --- http://www.techsmith.com/uservue/features.asp
TechSmith has a product called UserView that allows you to view
and record what is happening on someone else’s computer like a
student’s computer. Multiple computers can be viewed at the
same time. Images and text can be recorded. Pop-up comments
can be inserted by the instructor to text written by students.
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UserView can be used for remote testing --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus
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Adding Media to PowerPoint
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PowerPoint --- On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the
following: Insert a sound file Click Sound from File, locate the folder that contains the
file that you want, and then double-click the file. Insert a sound clip from Clip Organizer
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Camtasia adds a toolbar to PowerPoint
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Click Sound from Clip Organizer, Swishpix (Not Free) --- www.swhishzone.com Richard Campbell created a Swishpix Valentine card at
http://www.virtualpublishing.net/annrjc/annrjc.html
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Playstream (Not Free) --- www.playstream.com|
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Other alternatives --https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/UIUCMM/Adding+audio+to+Powerpoint
Also see http://www.sameshow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2755
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PowerPoint FAQ --- http://pptfaq.com/index.html
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Audio and Video Streaming
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Streaming Media --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
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Playstream (Not Free) --- www.playstream.com
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Many other alternatives --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media#Streaming_media_technologies
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Future Lab in the U.K.
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Media Lab at MIT --- http://www.media.mit.edu/
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Future Lab (in the U.K.):
Developing innovative learning resources and practices that
support new approaches to education for the 21st century.
By bringing together the creative, technical and educational
communities, Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new
technologies to transform the learning experience.
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Just In Time Teaching (JiTT)
(Focus is Active Learning)
JiTT Resources --- http://134.68.135.1/JiTT/resources.html
The JiTT strategy is based on the notion of a feedback loop
between the out-of-class assignments and the subsequent
classroom activities. Based on the student responses, the
instructor selects an appropriate set of items that will make up the
lesson. The classroom experience then informs the choice of the
next set of web assignments. Over the past seven years faculty
across the country have developed a rich set of JiTT resources. To
look at some examples please visit A JiTT Sampler.
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Cell Phone Technology
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This cell phone technology may have wide ranging education and
training possibilities.
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"Cell-phone lessons prompt students to prepare for SAT," by
Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle, October 19, 2004 --http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/18/MNG3S9BHPN1.DTL&type=tec
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Classroom Response Pads
Back is the early 1990s, Barry Rice and I were both inspired heavily
by a company called HyperGraphics that authored a complete
course management and delivery system in DOS (before the days
of Windows and Macs). My classes were small at Trinity
University, but Barry had some large basic accounting lecture
classes at Loyola College of Maryland. He made active use of
hardware from HyperGraphics that allowed each student in a
large lecture to respond to questions in class. At first all these
response pads were hard wired to student desks. Later they
became wireless. HyperGraphics changed names over the
decades but is still in the business of selling wireless response
pads. Now the classroom "Clickers" are replacing the older style
wireless response pads. You can read more about the history of
this type of thing at
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/290wp/290wp.htm
Classroom Response Pads
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Read how clickers are used at the University of Wisconsin --http://www.news.wisc.edu/11142.html
A pilot test at Iowa State University (where students buy them for
$16 at the bookstore) is reported at
http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/2005/0610/clickers.shtml
Canada's usage is reported at
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050510.gtclickermay10/BNStory/Technology/
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Also see
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68086,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
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One source for clickers is http://www.smartroom.com/
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Richard Campbell suggests www.einstruction.com
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Tablet Computing
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Tablets
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The Tablet PC For Faculty: A Pilot Project --http://www.ifets.info/journals/9_2/6.pdf
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The University of Virginia is hosting the test of a state-of-the-art
educational delivery platform this fall in a collaboration with
three companies holding a big stake in the higher education
community. The project involves Thomson Learning, which is
supplying Web-based courseware developed with UVa. faculty
based on the firm's iLrn platform. Students will be equipped with
Tablet PCs from HP running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC
software and Microsoft OneNote digital note-taking application.
Syllabus News on Octiber 26, 2004
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Chat Rooms
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A chat room is a Web site, part of a Web site, or part of an online
service such as America Online, that provides a venue for
communities of users with a common interest to communicate in
real time. Forums and discussion groups, in comparison, allow
users to post messages but don't have the capacity for interactive
messaging. Most chat rooms don't require users to have any
special software; those that do, such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
allow users to download it from the Internet.
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Chat rooms are available in Blackboard and WebCT
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Often used for team projects
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Chat Room Addiction
When a person
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is showing excessive signs of co-dependency when
chatting with others
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is chatting more than a few hours a day
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is chatting instead of taking care of themselves
physically or emotionally.
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is avoiding relationships with others by chatting online.
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Instant Messaging (IM)
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Abbreviated IM, a type of communications service that enables
you to create a kind of private chat room with another individual
in order to communicate in real time over the Internet, analagous
to a telephone conversation but using text-based, not voice-based,
communication. Typically, the instant messaging system alerts you
whenever somebody on your private list is online. You can then
initiate a chat session with that particular individual.
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Amy Dunbar (U. of Connecticut) teaches tax online from her
home using IM.
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Instant Messaging
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Google Introduces Instant Messaging
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112482337312020777,00.html?m
od=todays_us_marketplace
See this IM service at http://www.google.com/talk/
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: Meebo at www.meebo.com and KoolIM at www.koolim.com
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MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk (or Jabber) and AIM
(or ICQ)
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Meebo Use by Steven Hornik
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I just wanted to let the list know that I've been using Meebo this
semester for my undergrad financial accounting class and my
grad AIS course. You can see the meebo widget on both of my
webpages (wikis) that I use for the course at either:
http://financialaccounting.wikispaces.com or
http://acg5405.wikispaces.com and if I'm online feel free to say
hello to see how it works.
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I have always included my Yahoo ID in my syllabus so students
could IM me with questions. In recent years I observed two
things: 1) I tended to forget to start my IM more and more - I just
wasn't using it that much, and 2) students weren't using it, as it
required them to get a Yahoo account, download the IM software,
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etc.
Meebo Use by Steven Hornik
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Since using Meebo, and in particular placing the meebo widget on
my web pages, student communication with me has increased at
least 10 fold (anectodal not empirical). I'm convinced of the
reasons: 1) Ease of Use - students just have to access the course
web page, and the widget lets them know if I'm online, and if so
they can just type away. 2) I don't forget to start it - since it's webbased I simply have the meebo webpage as one of my tabs in
firefox and whenever I start my browser (first thing I do
whenever I'm at my computer) meebo is there.
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Meebo also has chat rooms (I haven't used these yet), that allow
you to import almost any kind of media (audio/video) and you can
invite your students to it to create a synchronous environment for
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viewing
course material and discussing it as a group.
ADA Landmark Act and School
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Landmark Disabilities Act --- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-27-99.html
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Landmark College site is at http://www.landmarkcollege.org/
(Shared ideas with the ADA education pros.)
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Free Handicapped Software --http://handicapped.alienpicks.com/
Also see http://www.allworldsoft.com/keywords/handicapped/
Amazon --- Click Here
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Tools for Handicapped Learners
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Camtasia is a great ALN asynchronous learning tool.
Videos can be made of lecture materials, Web materials,
Blackboard files, etc. They can be served up on CDs,
Web wervers, WebCT servers, Blackboard servers, etc.
Users can replay videos over and over and over.
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Perhaps a video should have three different video
versions, including one version for the hard of hearing
that uses more graphics and text and one version for the
blind that uses more audio.
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Page Turners
Amazon Pages: Amazon's Breakthrough
Technology to Help Quadriplegic's
Read"Turning Pages for Those Who Can't," by
Steven Edwards, Wired News, January 24, 2006 -- http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,700520.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
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Eye Controlled Computers
Eye Controlled Computer for the Disabled
The MyTobii P10 is an eye-controlled communication device aimed
at users with ALS, MS and other neurological disabilities. The unit
integrates a 15-inch screen, a computer and an eye-control device
for easy portability. It simply requires the user to sit in front of it and
follow a dot for 30 seconds to calibrate the eye tracker and then it's
ready to go. The MyTobii P10 maintains precision performance in
any light conditions and whether or not the user wears glasses or
contact lenses and will not be fudged by head movements. The unit,
which can be mounted on desks, beds and wheelchairs, will sell for
$17,000 but we're hoping insurance may cover some of that.
"Eye Controlled Computer for the Disabled," Wired News, August
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Wearable Computers
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Learning-challenged students in Ohio are using wearable
computers that are helping the kids be more independent and
confident.

"A Wearable Aid for Special Kids," by Katie Dean, Wired News,
May 10, 2002 --http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52148,00.html
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Jeremy Rossiter was not able to speak when he first entered Lisa
Zverloff's class for the multiple-handicapped. The third-grader,
who is autistic, communicated by hitting and biting. But with the
help of a wearable computer, Jeremy learned to mimic, then utter,
words and small phrases.
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A Case Study in Online Course Development
Susan Spencer's MP3 Audio File Download
You may download Susan's MP3 file from the list
of fMP3 files at
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/002cpe/
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For Sight Impaired
(Blind, Dislexia, etc.)

Audacity Free Audio Recorder
http://audacity.com/
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Audacity Wiki Tutorials - A collection of tutorials on doing
various editing and conversion tasks in Audacity, such as making
ringtones, removing vocals, mixing, creating podcasts,
transferring tapes and records to computer, and several more.
Also includes links to other tutorials on the web. The
MultiLingual page contains links to tutorials and resources in
languages other than English.

What made the old Sony Walkman better than all new
"audiobooks"
for the blind?
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For Sight Impaired
(Blind, Dislexia, etc.)

National Federation of the Blind --- http://www.nfb.org/
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"Seeing-Eye Computer Guides for the Blind," by Louise Knapp,
Wired News, March 30, 2004 --http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,62810,00.html?tw=new
sletter_topstories_html
"Computer algorithms process the images and extract information
from them to give the user information about what they are
looking at," said Nikolaos Bourbakis, professor at Wright State
University's College of Engineering and Computer Science in
Dayton, Ohio.
Users
can program iCare to feed them information continuously or
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For Hearing Impaired Learners

Text-to-Speech (Audio) is Quite Good Unless There Are Words
Not in a Standard Dictionary

Try it out at
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
The free software tries on such terms as "homoscedasticity" and
"heteroscedasticity."
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This software is useful for blind persons.
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The pioneer in this technology is Bell Labs.
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Also see
http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/Curriculum/Reading/t
extScreen.php
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For Hearing Impaired Learners

From Gallaudet University
Deaf Education Information Center from the Clerc Center --http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/

American Sign Language University --http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/

Multi-function phones, webcams and other new technological
innovations

Linda Kidwell’s tips --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
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Animated Face Helps the Hearing Impaired

"Animated face helps deaf with phone chat," by Will Knight,
NewScientist.com, August 4, 2004 --http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996228

Software that creates an animated face to match someone talking
on the other end of a phone line can help people with hearing
difficulties converse, suggests a new study.
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The animated face provides a realistic impersonation of a person
speaking, enabling lip-readers to follow the conversation visually
as well as audibly.
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Campus, Building, & Classroom Design

Web link ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Design
Local Computer Link
../../000aaa/thetools.htm#Design

LCD = Liquid Crystal Device computer/video panel and projector
displays

DLP = Digital Light Processor projection device developed by
Texas Instruments. DLP is based on a digital micromirror device
(a chip with millions of microscopic, hinged mirrors). Red, green
and blue light is filtered through a color wheel.

"LCD or DLP?" by Dave Nagel, T.H.E. Journal, May 2007 --http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20627
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Campus, Building, & Classroom Design

Physical Design of Schools in the Technology Age
A 2006 Report from the National Summit on School Design
provides recommendations to help designers and educators make
better decisions about some of the $30 billion spent annually on
new or renovated school facilities--http://www.archfoundation.org/aaf/documents/nssd.report.pdf

Stanford University Experiments With the Latest Classroom
Technology and Building Design"Wallenberg Hall: Opening the
Door to New Technologies," by Melinda Sacks, Syllabus,
September 2004, pp. 13-16 --http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9936
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Online Testing
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus
Local Link --- ../../assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus

UserView can be used for remote testing --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus

Sylvan Learning Centers

Student Partnering Attestations

Village Vicar, Employment Supervisors, etc.

Assessment in General --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm
Local Link --- ..\..\assess.htm
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CiteULike --- Everyone’s Library
The CiteULike cite is at http://www.citeulike.org /
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share,
store, and organise the academic papers they are
reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests
you, you can click one button and have it added to your
personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the
citation details, so there's no need to type them in
yourself. It all works from within your web browser.
There's no need to install any special software.
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Suppose you are on 122 South Sleazy Lane and need
directions to 1200 Beacon Street. How can you dial on
your cell phone and get those directions?


Dial DIR-ECT-IONS (347-328-4667)
Katherine Boehret, "Directions Are a Cellphone Call Away," The Wall
Street Journal, September 19, 2007, Page D
The service, from a determined start-up called Dial Directions Inc., is
free -- except for the cost of receiving text messages on your phone.
After the first 30 days of use, a one-line advertisement will start
appearing at the bottom of the last text message sent per set of
directions (some take multiple text messages to include all of the
steps).
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The defunct BeVocal service in the Bay
Area of San Francisco

Bay Area driving directions --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Audio/
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\bevocal\driving.rm

Bay Area traffic conditions --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Audio/
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\bevocal\traffic.rm

Stock quotations --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Audio/
Local Link --- ..\..\000aaa\bevocal\stock.rm
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How to Download PC Videos to TV
Giant screen TV sets are better than computer screens for viewing
video, including course content video recorded by instructors
using such capturing software as Camtasia. As we increasingly
download video files or capture streaming video on the Web into
video files, it is possible to transfer those files to a DVD disk for
playback on other computers and TV sets with DVD players.
However, is it possible to transfer files to TV in one step without
having to make DVD disks?
See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#PCtoTV
Local Link --- ..\..\Bookbob4.htm
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The End
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