We all like to add flavor and visual appeal to our websites, slides and documents with images. With Google putting almost any image conceivable at your fingertips, it’s incredibly easy to find and take appealing graphics. However, as an educator you are highly advised to be aware of copyright and fair use when re-purposing media…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Finding Copyright Friendly Images
Today’s UP Tech Tip goes over how to create a handout of Powerpoint slides. You can create one and print it out or share digital to allow your audience to keep a copy and take notes on your presentation or lesson. This example uses PowerPoint 2016 on a Mac but the process is very similar…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create a PowerPoint Handout
This tech tip is for any faculty (or students, staff, etc…) who have been using personal Google accounts to store documents and data and work in the cloud. You may want to leverage work you’ve done in the past and use your UP Office 365 account to share and collaborate with peers at UP –…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Migrate Google Drive docs to Office 365
We all depend on our networks for support. As humans we love to communicate, to share our experiences, to learn from others, and to influence and be influenced within our social spheres. This is equally as true for professional networks where we can talk shop with peers as it is for networks of family and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Develop Your Personal Learning Network with Twitter
Educators use Microsoft Office to deliver a wide range of material — syllabi and other vital class documents in Word, slide decks in PowerPoint, and more. With Office 365 coming to campus, now is a great time for a reminder and refresher on the importance of creating documents that are accessible to a diverse audience. Creating documents in an…Continue Reading MS Office and Accessibility
One of the best things about Office 365 is that it lets us view, edit, share and collaborate on Word documents online – from any device and any web browser. As our students can attest using an online productivity tool (such as Office 365 or Google Docs) has a lot of advantages: You can work…Continue Reading Tech Tip – Getting Started With Word Online