Resources
Working Smarter, Not Harder
Friday, April 15th, 2011Anna’s got a problem. She’s a biology student at Keene State College working on original research and she needs to count the stem cells. Specifically she needs to count somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 stem cells at once, in a bucket full of slides. That’s a lot of counting. More to the point, it’s [...]
QR Codes and You
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010What’s a QR Code?
Quick Reference or QR codes are a two dimensional matrix code that performs a function similar to a bar code. That is to say that it’s a form of encoded information not easily read by people, but easily decoded by computers. QR codes can often been seen on UPS or FedEx packages, and [...]
Screen Toaster
Thursday, May 13th, 2010What is this, and What is it good for?!
ScreenToaster is a web based service that allows you to create and host screen casts online. What, you might be asking, is a screen cast?! What a wonderful question. A screen cast captures your desktop as a video, and allows you to capture additional audio as voice [...]
Viddler
Friday, April 9th, 2010What is this, and What is it good for?!
Viddler is a web based service that hosts video content online. That’s a nerdy way of saying: “this is a place where you can share videos on the internet.” What makes Viddler unique, and in many ways pretty cool, is the ability to use your webcam to [...]
Workflow
Monday, April 5th, 2010Workflow seems to be absent from nearly every conversation about group projects I’ve ever been a part of. Helping students understand how they should work in a group is important, and here’s a template for instructors planning on using Video creation as a group project.
Make a Plan Stan
Envision what you’d like your end project to [...]
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 RSS Feeds in BlackBoard
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Feeds (RSS or Atom) are one of my favorite features of the web these days. Who, what, why? Really Simple Syndication makes it incredibly easy to share the web in real time. As a publisher it means that your audience can subscribe to see updates as they roll out – imagine a newspaper that always carried the [...]
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 [...]
Google Calendar on your iDevice
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010To add the Google Calendar to your iPod Touch or iPhone to the following
Step 1:
Select the settings application
Step 2:
Select the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” portion of the settings page.
Step 3:
Select “Add Account…”
Step 4:
Select “Other”
Step 5:
Select “Add Subscribed Calendar”
Step 6:
In the “Server” field type or copy and paste the subscription address you want to add
Press “Next”
Step [...]
Google Calendar – Simple Steps
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Interested in learning how to subscribe to calendars using GCal? Here are some simple steps that will walk you through that process
Step 1:
Do you have a google/gmail account?
Yes:
Okay, great! Head to google.com and sign in.
No:
As much as I hate to say it, this whole process is going to be infinitely easier (not to mention less [...]
