MacEwan Faculty Commons EdTech Podcast

Episodes

1. 17

   Creating PDF’s With PDFCreator

   MacEwan faculty often want to distribute documents to students in PDF format. In this podcast, Grant Wilson demonstrates how to find, install and use the free PDFCreator software so that faculty can easily create PDF versions of their documents including Word, PowerPoint and, in fact, any…

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   Apr 4, 2011

   4m
2. 16

   Blackboard Gradebook Tips " Part 2

   Sometimes your Blackboard Gradebook columns can become all jumbled up and sometimes many of them might not even be visible to you. In this podcast, Mavis Leung will show you how to reorder the columns, hide and show columns and release a column to the students.

   Mar 28, 2011

   3m
3. 15

   Blackboard Quirks & Gotchas Part III

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   Mar 22, 2011

   6m
4. 14

   Creating a Quick Screencast with Jing

   In this podcast, Grant Wilson will show you how to create quick screencast using Jing, which is free, easy-to-use screen capture software. Once the screencast has been uploaded to an online site, Screencast.com, Grant shows you how to embed the screencast in a MacEwan Blackboard course.

   Mar 14, 2011

   6m
5. 13

   Cross-listing Multiple Sections in Blackboard

   Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This podcast will show you how to create individual Blackboard sections and how to cross-list them into one, combined Blackboard site at MacEwan.

   Feb 25, 2011

   4m
6. 12

   Blackboard Quirks & Gotchas Part II

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   Feb 14, 2011

   4m
7. 11

   Creating and Publishing Pencasts

   In this podcast Grant Wilson demonstrates how to record "pencast" movies with the Livescribe Echo Smartpen. Pencast movies can be uploaded to the web and easily displayed in Blackboard.

   Feb 1, 2011

   5m
8. 10

   Blackboard Quirks & Gotchas Part I

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   Jan 27, 2011

   3m
9. 9

   Social Bookmarking with Delicious

   In the podcast Grant Wilson explains how to add Delicious browser buttons to your web browser, what each of those buttons does. The "social" part of social bookmarking is also demonstrated by using tag subscriptions and by adding people to your Delicious network.

   Dec 16, 2010

   6m
10. 8

    Using Excel with a Blackboard Grade Book

    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In this podcast Jon Coulson will show how to configure a spreadsheet for uploading to a Blackboard grade book, how to upload the spreadsheet, and how to configure the grade book.

    Dec 6, 2010

    4m
11. 7

    Exporting and Importing Assessments in Blackboard

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    Dec 3, 2010

    3m
12. 6

    Blackboard Quizzes: Resetting Attempts

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    Nov 26, 2010

    5m
13. 5

    Setting Up the Instructor Remote in iClicker

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    Nov 19, 2010

    3m
14. 4

    Setting up a Blackboard Course at MacEwan

    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This podcast will show you how to use the Blackboard course setup form to create your Blackboard section, and how to initialize your Blackboard section so you can start adding content.

    Nov 10, 2010

    4m
15. 3

    Downloading Video and Adding to PowerPoint

    This podcast will show how to download video from the internet and then add it to a PowerPoint presentation.

    Nov 1, 2010

    4m
16. 2

    RSS Basics

    In this first of two podcasts on the subject, we'll cover what RSS feeds are and how to subscribe to RSS feeds using a web browser, in this case, Internet Explorer.

    Oct 25, 2010

    4m
17. 1

    Blackboard Gradebook Tips - Part 1

    In this podcast, we will show you how to view the entire class list in your Blackboard gradebook, how to sort the content of a gradebook column, and how to change the title of a gradebook column.

    Oct 15, 2010

    3m