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Too Good to Be True?
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Just learned about these free software cheatsheets and initially thought that it was too good to be true. Then I started downloading them and from what I can tell, they’re great and there’s no catch to using them. You don’t even need to register with Customguide.com.
Topics include Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, CS3, Firefox, and IE. I think these will be great for our computer labs and our computer classes. Gotta laminate them first, of course!
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Jun
11
Who’s Craig and what’s this list of his?
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I taught a class called ”Using Craigslist to Buy, Rent, Sell and More” tonight and it went well. One student brought a souvenir book from the 1st Taste of Chicago in 1977. She created an ad for it and posted it under collectibles for $25 obo, which I thought was kind of a low price.
Anyways, here’s the description of the class:
“Learn how to use Craigslist, a popular website where you can view or post classified ads for free. We’ll teach you the basics about buying, selling, and trading on Craigslist. If possible, bring information and pictures of an item you wish to sell. Basic computer skills and an active Web-based email account are required.”
And the slides:
May
28
RSS Feeds 101
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I’ve incorporated RSS into classes on blogs and blogging in the past, but tonight I taught a class focusing on RSS, aggregators, and ways you can use RSS beyond subscribing to blogs. I covered a lot of different examples, including using RSS to keep track of news, job listings, real estate, financial news, shopping deals, eBay listings, travel deals, medical information, packages, flickr photos with a specific tag, and of course library new releases and upcoming events.
In case anyone’s interested, the slides are viewable by clicking on the screenshot below. This is also the first time I used Google Docs Presentations alone. I didn’t use PowerPoint or Keynote at all and I was really happy with it. Running the presentation straight off my browser helped create a seamless transition between the presentation and the various websites I used as examples. I didn’t have to fuss with going back and forth from Firefox to PowerPoint, which was very nice! Also, I feel like the basic Google Documents feature is clunky and creates problems when you try to export as a Word doc, but Presentations is pretty clean and functional. Still, embedding a presentation into a blog is kind of messy. It’s nice that the code to embed a published presentation is made available, but it kind of screws up some of my text layout and I can’t have that. I guess nothing’s perfect 
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