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November 19, 2024, Filed Under: Canvas, Honorlock, Media & A/V, Online Proctoring, Teaching & Learning, Testing, Zoom

How to get help

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You need help. But maybe you’re not sure whom to contact.

So… who you gonna call?

 

 

Below are three resources you can always turn to for assistance:

  1. The School of Nursing Contact (Julia Wolfe, Instructional Technology Specialist at  julia.wolfe@austin.utexas.edu or 512 471 4552.)
  2. The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
  3. Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS)

 

Julia Wolfe – Support within UT Austin School of Nursing

  • Instructional Technology support
    • Need help with Canvas, Zoom, Honorlock, Panopto, Qualtrics, PowerPoint, or… dozens of other software and teaching tools?
    • Not sure if a particular tool or software is approved for use at UT?
    • If I don’t know the answer, I will find it or find someone who does.
  • Instructional Design support
    • Instructional Designers create things that help people learn. So, if you need ANY teaching-related assistance, not just with technology, I’m here to help. I can share ideas from other faculty or help you come up with a custom solution for your class and your students.

More information and lots of resources are available here on my blog: https://sites.utexas.edu/son-edtech-design/

 

CTL – UT Faculty Development & Instructional Support

The CTL provides all of UT faculty with many of the same services that I provide within the School of Nursing. But they also have the ability to do much more.

  • Instructional Strategies
  • Teaching with Technology
  • Grad Student Development
  • New Faculty Symposium
  • Grants and Fellowships

All these and more are offered by the team at the CTL. And much more information is available on their website:  https://ctl.utexas.edu/

 

LAITS – Desktop & Classroom Support

LAITS primarily helps us maintain our computer hardware and our physical equipment. They are also here to help us install and update software, ensure computer security, and more.

  • Desktop support – need assistance with your office or work computer? Maybe you need to software installed or it’s time to upgrade you to a completely new computer.
  • Classroom support – need help in a Nursing classroom with ANY of the audio/visual hardware in our classrooms? Maybe the projector isn’t working, or the microphone is malfunctioning, or you can’t find a USB port for the computer.
  • Contacting LAITS
    • They are available in-person in their 2nd-floor office (NUR 2.104P), please contact them by phone or email.
    • You can call 512-471-5000 or email laits-help@utexas.edu.

 

December 18, 2020, Filed Under: Canvas, Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

Create Your Own Canvas Course Navigation

In exploring all the different ways we can customize our Canvas courses, one of the options that many of you have expressed interest in is the idea of adding buttons (or tiles) to your course home page to help your students navigate your course.

Well, here’s any easy way you can create your own, custom-made, buttons quickly and easily.

… read more 

August 14, 2020, Filed Under: Canvas, Media & A/V, Software & Apps

Automatic Captioning – easier than it used to be

Adding closed captions to your recordings is one of the best things you can do for viewers, and not just those with hearing problems. But, now you can also do so in real time so students don’t have to wait from captions to become available, they can read them while you’re talking.

… read more 

March 21, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

Voiceover PowerPoints Made Easy

 

You need to add narration to a PowerPoint slideshow but you don’t know where to start.

 

This 1 minute, video is a great, simple introduction:

… read more 

August 8, 2019, Filed Under: Canvas, Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning, Testing

It’s Fall 2019!

Ready or not, the Fall semester is upon us.

That means it’s time to put the finishing touches on your syllabus, get your Canvas course up and running, make sure all your slideshows are finished, and so much more.

In addition to the 10,000 other things on your to-do list, here are a few resources that will help you start the semester strong.

… read more 

June 5, 2019, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

Camtasia and You

Are you teaching in a “flipped classroom”? 

Do you want to easily add a voice over to your PowerPoint slideshow? 

Do you have VHS or DVD videos that you wish you could upload into Canvas for future use? 

 … read more 

May 10, 2018, Filed Under: Canvas, Media & A/V, Teaching & Learning

News & Events for May

The semester is coming to an end and summer is around the corner, but there’s no shortage of things happening around campus and here in the School of Nursing. Here are just a few that I wanted to share with you and highlight. If you know of anything you’d like to add to future emails, please let me know!

 

Ed Tech Blog

Lecture Capture (video recordings and podcasts) on a Budget! – Custom-made resources to help you easily record audio and/or video of your lectures, guest speakers or anything else.

… read more 

February 22, 2018, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

Take your PowerPoint Slideshows to the Next Level

Are you (and your students) tired of the same old PowerPoint slideshows? Would you like a few different ways to take your slideshows to the next level?

Well, then you’ve come to the right place! We have several new resources to help you do just that.

… read more 

May 4, 2017, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps

Embed Sli.do, Kahoot!, or anything else into your PowerPoint

You can embed ANY web page into your PowerPoint slideshow!

The steps below will show you how to embed a Sli.do poll into your slideshow. The steps are virtually identical if you’re using Kahoot!, Poll Everywhere, or just about any other website.

How do I embed Slido into my presentation?

Slido’s Present view can be embedded into your slides to make poll results and live questions visible directly in your PowerPoint presentation. The setup is really easy! To get started click the link above.

For more detailed instructions, you can also refer to this blog post.

 

 If you have any questions or you’d like to schedule a 1-on-1 training session to learn more about PowerPoint or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

March 19, 2017, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps

Adding Narration to PowerPoint Slideshows

05-09-2014-powerpoint-logoThere are lots of ways you can record things for future use. And, there are just as many reasons you might want to.

For example, you can record audio or video directly into you Canvas course. This would be a great way to add a human touch to the instructions for an assignment.

… read more 

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Julia.Wolfe@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-4552

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