Archive for the 'digital tools' Category
Watching the videos
0 Comments Published November 28th, 2007 in Assignments, Class materials, FSEM100RR, Interviews, Veterans, Video, digital toolsIf you have trouble watching the video or listening to the audio of women veterans from the VHP, make sure you have Real Player installed on your computer. If not you can download it for free from here. Or you can go to one of the computer labs on campus and watch/listen to the there.
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Research, Note-taking, and Digital Tools
0 Comments Published October 11th, 2007 in Assignments, Class materials, FSEM Topics, FSEM100RR, digital toolsUse the following links to begin research
Simpson Library
Online databases for historical research
Note-Taking Options
Note Cards
Post-It Notes
Word Processor (with or without templates)
Outlines or free-form notes
Citation (or other pay note-taking software like Nota Bene)
Microsoft OneNote
Excel/Access–For information in larger quantities that is consistent in its form (e.g., the census).
Scribe – GMU’s CHNM free note-taking software
Zotero — CHNM’s [...]
How to make Word 2007 files work with older versions
0 Comments Published September 30th, 2007 in Assignments, FSEM100RR, Video, digital toolsI know talking to many of you that you’ve had trouble with sending your Word 2007 files to people who can’t open them with our older versions of MS Word.
One solution is to follow this link to a YouTube video explaining how you can save your file in a format that will work on earlier [...]
Get a del.icio.us account
0 Comments Published September 6th, 2007 in Assignments, FSEM100RR, digital toolsnbsp;Del.icio.us is what’s known as a social bookmarking site. In simplest terms it’s a way to keep track of online sites, blog postings, YouTube videos, whatever you want. See http://tools.umwblogs.org/delicious/ for a quick summary.
Sign up for your own account at http://del.icio.us and send me your username via email.




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