Office of Academic Programs
Handouts
Audio/Images- Audio player/ recorder (MP3 Players) iRiver handout for instructions on how to record, listen, download, and delete recordings.
- Free Images and Free Sounds web resources.
- Citing Creative-Commons-Licensed Flickr Images
- Resize Images Using Photoshop provides instructions for croping or resizing images. Photoshop is located under UNCG Applications. It is only available while connected to the UNCG network (wireless or wired or via VPN).
- Resize Images Using Pixlr
Video
- Free video web resources.
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way for websites to broadcast news or updates on their site as well as for you, the user, to receive those updates.
- You can embed these in your Blackboard course and they will update automatically. See RSS Feeds in Blackboard Courses.
- Scholar (read About Google Scholar.)
- Video (see this Google Video handout.)
- For a primer on speech recognition, see this MS Speech Recognition Overview
- See this Podcasting Overview to learn where to find podcasts and how to create them.
- Convert a scanned document to PDF for Blackboard or the web
- Most versions of Word can convert to PDF without additional software (go to File> Save As > pdf).