Category Archives: Tech Spotlights

Tech Spotlights: Finding and using free images on the Web

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Angel Brady

Here is the slideshow from out tech Spot­light Ses­sion on 10/21/2010. Here’s a link to the hand­out (PDF): Find­ing and Using Free Images on the Web.pdf

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Technology Spotlights: Microsoft PhotoStory

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Ben Johnston

Pho­to­Story is a free pro­gram by Microsoft that works with Win­dows XP, Vista and Win­dows 7. With Pho­to­Story you can cre­ate a slide show with you dig­i­tal pic­tures, edit your pic­tures, cre­ate a story with orig­i­nal music and add nar­ra­tion. Pho­to­Story also allows … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Technology Spotlights: Creating Video Using The Kodak Zi8

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Ben Johnston

This ses­sion was designed to show you how to incor­po­rate the use of video in your class using the Kodak Zi8 Pocket video cam­era. With this cam­era you can: Cap­ture and cri­tique stu­dent and instruc­tor inter­views and/or pre­sen­ta­tions Assess stu­dent oral lan­guage … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Tech Spotlights: Audacity

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ben Johnston

This ses­sion focused on the voice record­ing soft­ware Audacity. Audacity is a freely avail­able pro­gram for audio record­ing.  Fol­low the link below for instruc­tions on down­load­ing and using this soft­ware. The soft­ware is also avail­able on all com­put­ers in the HRC. AUDACITY Instructions.pdf   … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Tech Spotlights: Wimba

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Ben Johnston

Wimba is used to enrich lan­guage learn­ing pro­grams. This audio tool can be used for instruc­tors to cre­ate assign­ments that require stu­dents to post their record­ings from within the Black­board course site. Instruc­tors can use this tool to ver­bally explain com­plex mate­r­ial and send … Con­tinue read­ing →

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