There are many scenarios when you might need to bring a PowerPoint along with you on the go. Teachers need them for lectures, students or professionals need to bring them along for presentations, or maybe you need to bring one along to a group study session in the library. If you have been using a…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Present and Share PowerPoint Online
One popular concept in higher education at the moment is gamification. There are a lot of variables to consider when thinking about gamification and if it’s right for your class. There are many different apps out there, most of which depend on students to have BYOD or 1-1 device access. If you’ve been thinking about gamification but…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Use PowerPoint to Gamify the Classroom
Most educators would agree that multi-sensory learning offers obvious and tangible benefits for students. Using a combination of information delivery methods can increase learner engagement, comprehension and retention. As a teacher, you can talk at length about complex subjects (it’s called lecturing for a reason), and you’ve probably written countless pages in your area of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Make Your Own Graphics
I’ve written before about how using styles in Word is the most important and easiest step you can take to make your documents accessible to all learners. However did you know there are all sorts of other good reasons to get in the habit of using styles to be more productive and efficient with your…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip : Use Styles in Word
Today’s #UPTechTip is to sync the calendar in Moodle to your Outlook calendar. It’s can be handy to glance at the calendar in Moodle to get a reminder of due dates or other class events you have set, but as one faculty member recently said to me “I NEED everything to be on one calendar”….Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Sync Moodle Calendar to Outlook
Today we have a very simple but very handy tech tip for working in MS Office. Very often we will find ourselves with a document that has the formatting we want applied to one section. Trying to match the rest of the document to it can be a pain. Format painter to the rescue! It…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Format Painter is so Handy!