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Student message: "I was absent [due to a medical problem]. Do you mind sending me the PowerPoint/notes that were taken during that day?" Students often refer to PowerPoint presentations as being

As a technology leader on my campus I get to see and hear what everyone is trying out. It's a tremendous vantage point, plus teaching with technology is something that I'm passionate about. The

PSPP is a free (cost and licensing) software application that works like SPSS. This software application is used in my introductory-level statistics course. At one time, we used SPSS because it was

A big challenge for addressing artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education is to clearly communicate what is acceptable or unacceptable uses to the students. There is no traditional model to

Like many people, I have struggled to understand how artificial intelligence works. There are good technical explanations for how these technologies are built and run (training data, guard rails,

The Brightspace by D2L learning management system has features for automatically adding captions to an existing video. It's not super obvious though how this feature can be used. Here are the steps.

Conferences often require presenters to share a common computer projection system. These situations raise the potential problem of dead time that occurs when presenters are being switched. The usual

Note: This was first published on January 23, 2025. I've recently challenged myself to learn VIM, a text editor popular with computer programmers. One of the biggest obstacles was a feature that

Note: This was first published on January 23, 2025. I've recently challenged myself to learn VIM, a text editor popular with computer programmers. One of the biggest obstacles was a feature that

Note: This was first published on July 17, 2024. During the pandemic I was confronted with the challenge of providing statistics software to students who had a wide range of hardware and software.