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Technologies Open Lab |
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| The Open Lab is in
LRC-215 | The Learning Technologies
Department conducted open lab sessions in LRC-215 during the week
following Welcome Back Week, and they were such a success that we've
decided to continue to offer them as long as demand dictates.
Faculty members are encouraged to stop by to get help with
WebCT and faculty websites. If they need help loading documents or
presentations into WebCT or their websites, they should bring the
files along on a removeable disk, or place the files in their
folders on the staff server.
Faculty Open Lab is currently
scheduled for Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1:00 - 3:30 in
LRC-215. That schedule may be adjusted in the future, so check the
LTech website for updates. That
information can be found in the faculty resources sections on the
right-side panel.
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| Good beginnings make
good semesters |
Start your
online course positively and reap the rewards all semester long; you
can minimize students’ problems and frustration—and your own—by
starting off well. There are three ways to influence your students
at the beginning of the semester:
- Your initial communications with them
- Their communications with each other
- Their interaction with the online classroom and materials
Your initial communication with students
Think about what you want your initial communications with
students to achieve—they need to feel comfortable, to feel
challenged and excited about what they will be learning, and to be
clear about online social and academic norms.
Read
the full article.
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| Keyboard
Shortcuts |
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month's tech tip is probably old news for most users, but there are
still quite a few people out there who don't know about the
following Microsoft keyboard shortcuts, which also work in many
other programs.
- CTRL+C: Copy - Highlight a bit of text and click this
keyboard combination to put that text on your "clipboard" so that
you can paste it somewhere by using the following keyboard
combination.
- CTRL+V: Paste - Place your cursor wherever you want the
contents of your clipboard to be inserted, and click Ctrl + V.
We're not sure what the V stands for, but we think "Voila!" sounds
right.
- CTRL+Z: Undo - This works in most programs to undo at
least the most recent thing you did. Some programs let you click
the combo over and over to retrace your steps. Ah... if only
REAL-LIFE had an undo feature.
- CTRL+Y: Redo - Just in case you overdid the Undo.
- CTRL+X: Cut - When you highlight text and click this
combo, the highlighted text disappears from your document, but
gets placed on your clipboard so that you can paste it elsewhere.
This is handy in a program that doesn't let you drag the
highlighted text to drop it somewhere else.
- CTRL+B: Bold - This keyboard combination toggles Bold
on and off. You can also use it to apply bold to a highlighted
chunk of text.
- CTRL+U: Underline - Works the same as Bold.
- CTRL+I: Italic - works the same as Bold and Underline.
There are, of course, more keyboard combinations
than these, but these are the most common, and the ones that are
easiest to remember. You can find more shortcuts on Microsoft.
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