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Using Technology in the Classroom
Academic Technology offers training on Producer each semester, or will be glad to facilitate a training session for your department or a small group of individuals. Contact Terry Gray at ext. 2877 for TBA training. Duplication Blues?...A PURL of wisdom. Has your duplication budget been slashed? You could always digitize your handouts and place them on the web. In many cases, this is just what you need to do. We recommend using Adobe Acrobat for the job. Contact Elaine Armstrong for details, ext. 2644.
On the other hand, you may run afoul of the copyright laws by duplicating journal articles. The law is not as liberal as most instructors assume--and especially if you are placing the materials in a publicly available space such as the web. In this case, and to save everyone lots of effort, consider using a PURL--that is, a persistent URL. The two major electronic journal databases used at Palomar College, the Infotrac Expanded Academic Index and the Ebscohost Academic Search Elite, both support persistent URLs for their full-text journal articles. In Infotrac, you will see articles marked with an infomark to indicate that their URL is persistent:
In Ebscohost, you will find the PURL in the article citation information:
Persistent Link to this Article: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6312508&db=afh&tg=AN
You simply copy the URL and place it as a link on a web page that you have prepared for your students. When they click it, they are routed directly to the article on the web. No need for you to duplicate the article and hand it out, or digitize it and place it on the web. Students can then make the decision to print it themselves, or, more likely (and less expensively), cut and paste portions of it into their notes.
If your students are accessing the web from off campus, they will be required to login to Infotrac or Ebscohost before they can view the articles. Login instructions and passwords are available through the Library.
Examples of articles linked via persistent URLs:
"Hollywoods Most Wanted" [Ebscohost]
"Cal State Professor sues rap group..." [Infotrac]
All about using sound in PowerPoint (from Microsoft). How to save your PowerPoint presentation for the web and for Blackboard [PDF] How to use persistent URLs (PURLS) to direct your students to electronic journal articles. How to increase buffer times in Windows media player. How to add streaming audio and video to your web site. How to add quizzes to your web site using Hot Potatoes. Creating CD-Based HTML Presentations We have a new "How do I...?" page available, detailing frequently requsted software procedures with Office, FrontPage, Acrobat, and Blackboard. Further, or AT Tips & Tricks Archive is still available, and growing. Or, go to the master "tips & tricks" page from Microsoft... Our help videos have recently greatly expanded to include many FrontPage procedures. Click here for Microsoft Communities, including Office Newsgroups How do I save my PowerPoint presentation for the web, and then get it into my web site?
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