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Note: This was first published on May 13, 2024. Asking students to write in college courses has been a long-time educational strategy. Writing a summary shows that the assigned work has been read.

Note: This was first published on October 20, 2023. Complex figures can be overwhelming to an audience. The issue: where should one begin? A similar problem is describing processes that have multiple

Note: This was first published on October 20, 2021. PowerPoint has a special screen for presenters that shows the slides plus a variety of control buttons and a clock. Accessing this feature requires

Note: This was first published on March 22, 2021. Like many educators, my pandemic classroom presentations have been split between in-person, classroom students and students who are watching online

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards for online video require closed captions. Manually adding the captions is possible, but it is challenging and time-consuming. Fortunately, there

Note: This was first published on March 5, 2021. Transparency is a hot idea in higher education. The idea has multiple dimensions, but here we will focus on the essential "transparent" component: The

Note: This was first published on February 2, 2021. The Impact of Multi-Media Presentation Format: Student Perceptions and Learning Outcomes by Katherine Moen, University of Nebraska Kearney (Note:

Note: This was first published on January 11, 2021. This Excel file is a course calendar tool. Just enter the starting date of the semester and all the other dates will be automagically calculated!

Note: This was first published on December 15, 2020. Steve Haase and I have been studying the difficult scientific topic of unconscious perceptual processing for over 20 years. Many experimental

Note: This was first published on September 25, 2020. Students often feel a compulsive need to write down the text from PowerPoint presentations. This is modern note-taking: a simple verbatim copy of