Mid-year musings on the iPad

Posted on: February 5, 2015 | By: Maria Temming | Filed under: Instructional Technologies, Teaching & Learning

Well, it’s that time of year again: Winter Term is over and we’re all about to have a regular course load’s work for the first time in almost two months. Get excited. In the meantime, this week marks the halfway point for Elon’s Writing with Thumbs program. Through this program, I’ve been able to spend the last five months …

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Tech roundup: Presentation tools for every occasion

Posted on: November 21, 2014 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Tech Tips
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With the amount of presentation software available, it can be hard decide what is the best for your particular project. Over the past year, the writers on the technology blog have highlighted a number of presentation tools that could suit your project needs. If you’re working on a presentation in a team, these five tools could work …

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Exploring Keynote

Posted on: October 27, 2014 | By: Maria Temming | Filed under: Instructional Technologies, Teaching & Learning

For most of us, a professor’s instruction to “make a presentation” is basically synonymous with “make a PowerPoint.” Everyone and their mother knows how to make a PowerPoint presentation, which may be why this software has joined the ranks of “Xerox” and “Kleenex” among trademark names that are used generically. There are a few competing …

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