Category Archives: Training and Outreach
The productive Scholar: John LeMasney on Google Docs for Collaboration
In this hands-on session, John LeMasney demonstrated how you can use documents, presentations, and spreadsheets via Google Docs (Google Drive) to collaborate in real-time and share your up-to-date documents on the Internet. Watch the video below to see the screencast … Continue reading
The Productive Scholar: John LeMasney demonstrates PowerPoint
In the Productive Scholar on October 4th, 2012, John LeMasney talked about using Microsoft’s ubiquitous presentation software called PowerPoint. He started by discussing “Death by PowerPoint”, a phenomenon where the audience gives up on the presentation because of visual and … Continue reading
Productive Scholar: Assignments and Assessments in Blackboard
At The Productive Scholar, Matt Hood, one of Princeton’s experts on the Blackboard Learning Management System, talked about its Assessment tools. He described how to add an assignment to the system, which allows students to submit files to instructors, and … Continue reading
Lunch & Learn: SMART Technologies at Princeton
This week, we welcomed back Janet Temos to talk to our Lunch & Learn audience about touch technologies in teaching at Princeton. In her talk, she discussed interactive whiteboards, like SMART technologies’ SMARTboards, multitouch LCDs, & Sympodium podium based interactive … Continue reading
Productive Scholar: Get Your Group On: Making the Most of Blackboard’s Capabilities for Teaching and Managing Sections
On Thursday, September 20th, Dennis Hood came to talk about groups and other lesser known features in Blackboard at Princeton, as well as brand new features. Hood specifically talked about Blackboard Mobile, where you can visit Blackboard course content on … Continue reading
