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Academic Technology Learning Opportunities: Help Sheets and Self Paced Instruction

ELMS, BlackBoard

  1. Getting Started with ELMS, Blackboard
  2. Understanding the Content Collection

Online Collaboration and Communication

  1. Wikis, Easy, Fast, Online Collaboration
  2. Using an ARHU wiki: Closed Wiki, Open Registration
  3. Delicious, Shared Bookmark Organization
  4. Course Reflectors from UMEG

Presentation Graphics: Powerpoint

  1. Introduction to Powerpoint
  2. Working with Images in PowerPoint

Graphics and Imaging
(contact Jennifer Patterson to obtain copies of files referenced in these exercises.)

  1. Using ARTstor collection of over 300,000 digital images and related tools
  2. Scanning Images with Dell & HP Scanjet at the Faculty Scanning Station
  3. Cropping Images: Working with Microsoft PhotoDraw v2 (Office 2000)
  4. Making a Composite: Working with Microsoft PhotoDraw v2 (Office 2000)
  5. Making a Button Using Microsoft PhotoDraw v2 (Office 2000)
  6. Making a Navigation Bar with RollOvers Using Microsoft PhotoDraw v2 (Office 2000)
  7. Making a Composite with Adobe Photoshop 6.0
  8. Retouching Exercise for Photoshop 6.0
  9. Photoshop as a layout tool for Creating Web Graphics

WebSite Creation and Maintenance

  1. Introduction to HTML from MITH
  2. Publishing Web Pages on WAM/GLUE Accounts
  3. Upload/Download WebPages to Calliope via DreamweaverMX2004
  4. Upload/Download WebPages on Calliope with F-Secure for Windows
  5. Upload/Download Web Pages on Calliope with FUGU for Macintosh
  6. Uploading and Editing Web Pages on Calliope with Fetch for Macintosh
  7. Reconfigure Dreamweaver for Secure FTP- pdf file
  8. Password Protect files on Calliope
  9. FTP with WS_FTP to WAM (from OIT)
  10. UNIX Notes
  11. Including Video and/or Audio Media in WebSites
  12. Request space on the College Web Server: Calliope
  13. Configure a form to send email

Digital Audio and Video

  1. Using iTunes to Create MP3 files for Web Distribution
  2. Extracting Video from a Commercial DVD
  3. Extracting Audio from a Commercial CD with Audacity
  4. Extracting Audio from a Commercial CD with Quicktime Pro
  5. Overview of iTunes
  6. Copyright Guidelines Fair Use Check List
  7. Including Video and/or Audio Media in WebSites
  8. Playing Non-Region 1 DVDs (Mac)
  9. Recording Audio for WebCT with and iPod
  10. Including Audio & Video in ELMS
  11. Working with YouTube
  12. Quicktime Pro

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