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SMART Podium Training November 4th

  What Is a SMART Podium?  An interactive display panel that allows digital annotative abilities using a pen stylus. It works with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and PDF.  Using the accompanying SMART Notebook software, instructors can also annotate web pages. SMART Podiums were recently installed in 3 classrooms in the Business Administration Building.  Below are training …

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Webinars at the Faculty Center

Two great sessions hosted over the next few weeks by the Faculty Center focusing on accessibility.  Stop by and check them out.   Improving Online Course Accessibility for Students with Disabilities (Session 1 of 2) Location:  FCTT Conf. Rm. Date:  10/30/2013 Time:  12:00:PM – 1:30:PM Presenter: ai Academic Impressions Description:  Understanding accessibility regulations and guidelines. In …

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SMART Training at the FCTT

Today we had several faculty members from the Math Department, as well as a few from Literature and Languages, attend a session on SMART Notebook 11 in our training lab.  SMART Notebook works hand-in-hand with PowerPoint presentations, allowing annotation features galore. You can even save your annotations for future reference. SMART Notebook works with SMART …

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Apple TV/iPad Tips

A few notes and tricks about our Air Play set up in Ed South 131: First you’ll need wireless access.  Note that you need to be on the same wireless network as the Apple TV device in order to use Air Play with it. Below are step-by-step instructions of how to Access the Apple TV network …

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Classroom Apple TV Pilot

This summer semester we ventured into the unknown with our first Apple TV pilot.  We’ve seen many other schools do it and we had a curious faculty member willing to be the test subject…er, innovator.  Ed South room 131 became our testing ground.  After installing a projector with HDMI input, and some additional network and …

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