NTC » Teaching Technologies http://nnlm.gov/ntc National Library of Medicine Training Center Tue, 14 May 2013 16:08:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The New Digital Divide: Effective or ineffective searcher http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/05/25/the-new-digital-divide-effective-or-ineffective-searcher/ http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/05/25/the-new-digital-divide-effective-or-ineffective-searcher/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 13:28:24 +0000 Rebecca Brown http://nnlm.gov/ntc/?p=999 Google has a new site called Google Search Education. You can watch a two minute video to learn about the impetus for the site: http://youtu.be/v9yZco8bwI8.

The site includes a number of hour long recordings called Live Trainings on topics such as, Power Searching, Modern Search Literacy, and Using Google Scholar. A tip from the site: learn to narrow your search results by domain: search term site:.edu Replace search term with your own search term and retrieve results from .edu sites.

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]]> http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/05/11/online-infographics-tool/feed/ 0 SlideDog: Multimedia Presentation Player http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/04/09/slidedog-multimedia-presentation-player/ http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/04/09/slidedog-multimedia-presentation-player/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:06:27 +0000 Rebecca Brown http://nnlm.gov/ntc/?p=887 Do you give presentations using PowerPoint, Word and PDFs? Do you sometimes need to show multiple file types during one particular presentation? If you answered yes to these questions, then SlideDog may work for you. SlideDog lets you add your presentation files to a “playlist” where you can just click on the file name to move between files. When you click, the file changes and the audience will not see the behind-the-scenes change between programs.

SlideDog is currently in Beta and it requires a (free) download.

Follow this link to read more about SlideDog and to give it a try:

http://goo.gl/Kix81

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The webinar leader listed a number of interactive activities to help keep students engaged and encourage participation.  A few that caught my attention were:

  1. Fill in the blanks:  provide a handout with course notes, but leave some important words blank.  The students fill those in during the presentation.  Students don’t have to try to scribble notes of every word you are saying, but filling in the blanks will help them retain what they learn because they are writing something down.
  2. “Teach backs”:  students teach what they have just learned to another student.
  3. Top 10 Lists
  4. Card sorting
  5. “Gallery walks”:   students review posters on a wall; see this page from Central Michigan University for a description.
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This app allows you to record the audio of your meetings or classes, transcribe the audio, and share the recordings and transcriptions with others.

Currently available for iPhone & Android.

The app is free to download. There are both free and premium service options.

http://goo.gl/WwGcI

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http://http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

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The company is also working on bringing OnLive to Android tablets, iPhones and iPod Touches, Macs and PCs, and even to TV sets.

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3-D timeline that spans across three slides

Pictures that move along a curved path onto the slide

Dynamic timeline

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