Making your Mark… on Google Maps
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Google Maps has long been one our favorite tools over here in CELT. Google maps is great for a lot of reasons, but especially when it comes to creating personalized maps with landmarks and boundaries. To add to an already stellar online tool, Google just released a crowdsourcing portal for Google Maps called Mapmaker.
For those [...]
Common Google Spreadsheet Tasks
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010So you’ve jumped into Google Spreadsheets with both feet… Now what?
Creating a Form with Google Spreadsheets:
Working Logic Formula’s
Referencing Cells
Filtering Results
Protecting Sheets in your Workbook
Creating a Simple Real Time Graph
Easing Student Fears about Publicly Posted Material
Thursday, May 20th, 2010“If I post something publically on YouTube, what if my mistakes go viral and haunt me forever?”
Viral videos: the spread by-the-net short clips that usually involve something spectacular or someone doing something funny, foolish, or painful. Internet meme’s are born out of viral videos, and notable examples include “Star Wars Kid,” “Coke and Mentos,” “David [...]
Syncing Outlook with Google Calendar
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Why on earth do something like that?
Well, there are a whole host of reasons why you might want to sync your Keene State Outlook Calendar with your Google Calendar. For starters, outlook is a closed system. That is to say that you can access your outlook calendar, and anyone on campus with an outlook account [...]
Embedding a PowerPoint Presentation
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Presentation slides are handy things for students, in fact for anyone, to have after a lecture or talk is long over. PowerPoint documents, especially, can contain useful information that’s valuable to look back on. In many way’s they’re great, but they also have some failings. For example, unless you’ve posted the whole file on the [...]
