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Presentation Tips Scanning
PDF Dealing
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Scanning
More detailed information is at A Few Scanning Tips. Don't miss the site's useful and very extensive list of links to information about everything connected to scanning.
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While scanning for the screen is not that different from scanning for paper, to get good results youl need to understand a little about screen resolution and the various file formats used for displaying images on the screen. To edit your scans in something more extensive than Photo Editor, you'll need to work in Photoshop. |
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Avoid using white text on a blue or black background. 3.
Use color sparingly to focus on key information. |
More on screen fonts. (continues below) |
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Effective
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Titles should be at least 32 points; body text should be at least 24 points. The PowerPoint default title screen uses a 44 point font-size for the title, and 32 points for the text. You can decrease these sizes somewhat for your main slides.
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8. Don't use all caps or italics. People read words in all caps more slowly than they do words in title case or regular sentence case. Italics are poorly rendered on screen. 9. Avoid putting too much information on a slide. Use no more than 6-7 words per line, or about 1 1/2 alphabets, and 5-6 lines of text per page. Some suggest the "7X7" rule -use no more than 7 words per line and 7 lines per slide. I think this is too much for 1 slide. 10
Give people time to read and mentally process a new slide. Pause, stand still and mentally count to five after you put up a new slide. If you speak or move immediately, your audience may still be reading and not listenig to you. |
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MERLOT FAQ's
What is the value of MERLOT to individual faculty? Most faculty do not have the time to develop electronic content; nor are they interested in adopting a complete pre-packaged course. MERLOT provides them a way of easily and cheaply incorporating material into theircourse and syllabus. MERLOT may also eventually provide faculty a more systematic way of documenting their contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning. How
is MERLOT different than other Internet "gateways?" Most web search
engines (e.g., Yahoo) can lead you to sites on a particular topic, but
rarely to the depth of information teachers and scholars need. MERLOT
collects web-based materials from selected disciplines, evaluates them,
and attaches assignments, reviews, and other information necessary to
integrate them successfully into faculty curricula. By searching through
MERLOT, faculty members can easily identify materials that are appropriate
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What are "learning materials?" Learning materials can be used as components of a course, but are not complete courses. Learning materials found through MERLOT include high quality simulations, animations, tutorials, exercises, and other organized learning material. How will users know if the material they are accessing is of high quality? The organization of MERLOT consists of a national network of online discipline communities. Within each discipline, MERLOT faculty expert reviewers have formed panels that select and evaluate the learningmaterials. Each panel is in the process of (1) developing professional standards for online learning materials, (2) engaging in peer review processes similar to those used for scholarly works, and (3) providing a mechanism to validate and share high quality work. Also, to assess usability and to evaluate effectiveness, user comments from faculty, students, and other members can be added. |
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Establish or Update a Web Site 1. To establish space for a faculty Web site, you first e-mail Stephen Souders, GHC Webmaster, who will set up a space for your site and send your logon and password so you can post pages or update your site.
2. While you wait for your new site information, think about the content
of your site: sketch out what you want on your home page, decide if
you want a page for each course you teach, and consider what you want
the basic page design to look like (see the Web
Site Design section for guidelines). 3. Next, get and learn to use a Web page editor so you can prepare the pages of your site for "publication" on the Web. The easiest to use is "Composer," which you can download free. An excellent free, modern editor is "NVU" -which is explained here. 4.
Download the free "Mozilla"
suite, a combined browser and Web page editor ("Composer"),
which has all the tools you need to make a straighforward site, and
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Next, learn to use Composer. It has a good HELP section, but any of
the the following sites will help you learn the basics: 6.
Set up a folder for your site on your PC. This is where ALL the pages
in your site must be put. It is your "site root directory." 8. Finally, set up a connection between your PC and the Web server and publish your pages. Enter your site URL and the logon and password in Composer (see tutorials). You can then publish your site to the GHC server, where it will be available on the Web. |
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1. The Audio-Visual Dpt in the library (Rome campus) has the ability to record six DVDs or CDs at a time. "We can copy + R / RW or -R / RW media. Note the targer media needs to be the same as the source media. We can also copy CD-R / RW six at a time. We also have two DVD recorders that will record –R and RAM. We can use these DVD recorders to transfer media such as VHS, 8mm, ¾ inch tape and etc… to the –R and RAM format. If you need any of these services, please let me know. We will be glad to assist you."
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Where can I make a DVD? 2. FCTV has the capability to "burn" DVDs (i.e. copy). They can also transfer the following data formats to DVD: VHS, Beta, Digital, MiniDV tapes. 3. The Instructional Resource Center will soon have the capability to turn your CDs or various other files into DVD's. A "multimedia" PC is being assembled specifically for DVD-burning. For projects which involve more than just copying, IRC staff can assist you in adapting media for DVD. The multimedia PC should be ready during September, 2004. |
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Go to this site for general information about pdf (portable document format), including basics, creation, and file conversion. Free tools for creating pdfs All of them use GhostScript for generating the PDF output.
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