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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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 -
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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





