Category Archives: Faculty/Staff

Anything relating to faculty and staff machines

Notability, part 4

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYHCcIrRlA]

Reviewing the Plus [Media] tool, and importing/exporting

The Media tool enables you to pull in pictures from the Camera Roll or live from the Camera, plus has some basic editing tools [including cropping] AND lets you draw on top of the imported graphic with various shapes [lines, squiggles, rectangles, circles, etc].

Also covers stickies, web clips, and importing PDF file from Google drive into your note.

Search better, faster – lesson plans & presentations

there are several videos and such that will help you to spend less time looking for stuff online.

….or click the links below to view the presentation. The links below go straight to the online presentation.

Pick the right search terms –>  Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced

Understanding Search Results –> Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced

Narrowing a search to get the best results –> Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced

Searching for Evidence – Research Tasks –> Beginner  | Advanced

Evaluating Credibility of Sources –> Beginner | Intermediate

The original page is at
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html

Lesson Overview

Lesson Plan map

ePub texts – how to read

You might run across an ePub book. How do you read it?

[NOTE: We haven’t had a chance to test out these on our machines, so your mileage may vary. Please let me know what works or doesn’t work! Send an email to trule@ etc etc]

iPads / Kindle

Both of these should automatically open up the file – the iPad in iBooks, the Kindle in an ePub reader. Please let tech know if they don’t.

Windows machines

Mac machines