Additional Hardware and Software Instructional Tools
Hardware
These links will provide you with detailed instructions on how to use the following hardware:
Software
Below are tutorials and handouts on a variety of software packages.
Editing Images
- Editing Images with Photoshop Elements 5.0 - Basic
- Photoshop Elements 5.0 - Advanced Topics
- Editing Images with Picasa (free download)
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Files to Spot:
Microsoft Office Resources:
- MS Office 2007 Video Training
- MS Office 2007 File Converter
- MS Office 2007 Add-in Save to PDF (free download)
- MS Excel & Gradebook:
- Export from Banweb
- Export from Banweb Tutorial
- PowerPoint 2003 Introduction
- PowerPoint 2007 Introduction
- MS Office Tutorial (creator: Mark Terui, TSS Training Team)
- Other MS Office Tutorials
PDF (Portable Document Format) Converter:
- Adobe Acrobat
- Acrobat
Tutorial
- PrimoPDF (free download)
- Primo Tutorial
- Optimizing PDF file size
- Convert a PDF file to HTML or text
- Accessing PDF Documents with Screen Reader (ADA)
Quiz & Activity Development Tools:
Respondus
- Request Respondus
- Respondus
User Guide, use "WebCT 6" personality
- Downloading Publisher Test Banks Tutorial
- Creating and Formatting Questions Tutorial
- Importing Questions Video Tutorial
- Randomize Exam Questions Tutorial
- Publish/ Upload Quiz into Blackboard Tutorial
- Retrieving Questions from Blackboard (WebCT 6) Course Video Tutorial (coming soon)
- Downloading Publisher Test Banks Tutorial
- Converting an Online Exam to MS Word Format
StudyMate
- Request StudyMate
- StudyMate Examples
- StudyMate User
Guide, use "WebCT 6" personality
- StudyMate Tutorial
- Importing Questions (from Word or Respondus) into StudyMate Video Tutorial
- Create Activities for use with iPods Tutorial
- Changing Language or Color Settings for Activities Tutorial
- Adding StudyMate tool in Blackboard
- Importing StudyMate file within Blackboard
- StudyMate Tutorial
ExamView
EZ Test
Scanning Tools:
- Scanning Text with OmniPage Pro
- OmniPage
Tutorial
- HP OCR Scanning
- Slide Scanning
- Scanning Images with Photoshop Element
Screen-capture Tools:
- PrintKey 2000 (free download)
- Jing Project (free download)
- Flowgram (tutorial ) - presentation combining web pages, photos, ppt, voice, video, notes, and highlights.
Video/Audio Editing & Burning Tools:
- Video Editing:
- iMovie Apple (Mac)
- Windows Movie Maker (Windows)
- Movie Maker Tutorials (Windows)
- Audio Editing:
- CD/DVD Burning with Nero and Windows XP
- Convert Video Format to DVD using Nero
Webpage Development Tools:
- Xinha Here! - WYSIWYG HTML Editor, Firefox add-on (free download)
- How to design and publish your website using Kompozer (free download)
- Web page development using Sea Monkey (free download)
- Web Editing with Adobe Contribute software