YouTube videos can be embedded directly into your PowerPoint but lately this has become a problem. Here is a solution

9:00 am to 12:00 pm  – Joyner Library

Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to learn about the innovative, creative and effective ways ECU faculty are integrating technology to support student learning.  Join us to discover new ideas to enhance your classroom, and enrich your teaching experience.    Watch a sample of the presentations via the live webcast beginning at 9:30 am.  I present at 9:30!

Visit the Think-In 2013 website for the complete list of presentations and Register for the event. We’ll have great prizes and refreshments too

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strick construction rules, each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity (and are much better than “Your computer has performed an illegal operation.”) Here they are:

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
“My Novel” not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao – until
You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you are seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank

Using clickers in the classroom is a great way to get students to participate without having to raise their hands.  ECU Learning Technologies blog included this reference to clickers along with some great articles about using Technology!

New Resource for Turning Technologies Clickers

“We are excited to announce that we have a Turning Technologies intern on campus to provide training and support for Turning Technologies clickers. Continue reading →

Headlines say  “Flu picks up steam across the U.S.”

Preparedness is the key.

All faculty should have all course content on Blackboard or some other web site for students who can’t get to class.  Such Blackboard sites need not be elaborate.  OET can help set up these “emergency” Blackboard courses but it does need to be done in advance.  Lync and Yammer are also ways to communicate with students and faculty.

Students can’t make it to class but the faculty can Continue reading →

To continue to share new and old technologies to try in and outside of the classroom!  So I ask you to resolve to try at least one new tool this year!  Lync, Yammer, Collaborate, Lecture Capture, Blogs, Wikis, to name a few!  Just review past postings for more information or checkout the training schedule below.

There is Skype but for a more secure and supported tool, Lync 

Lync adds sharing and collaboration tools so users can meet online, give a presentation, brainstorm using a whiteboard, share desktop/applicationsand more.

One of the most-requested Lync features is the ability to invite non-ECU participants to a meeting or presentation.

Available for both Mac and Windows from the ECU Download Center.**

12/12/12!  Weddings, births, specials, concerts, doomsday  and twelve must-known facts.  Take a break from end of semester grading!

To you and your family may you have a day full of thanks.