Reading Time: < 1 minuteLooking for information to support students with technology? Complete and up-to-date tech support and services for students can be found on the Library’s Teach Me Tech website. Services Available At the Teach Me Tech site, students can: access live chat tech support, book one-on-one virtual tech consults with tech reps, find tips and instructions for using Zoom or Teams, or LinkedIn Learning,...
Reading Time: < 1 minutePost contributed by Conestoga Library Services. Do your students need help in enhancing their digital skills? Then consider connecting them with self-paced resources and workshops that can help! To serve this need, the Library has developed the Digital Skills Toolkit. This resource, designed in collaboration with The Learning Portal and Conestoga’s IT Services, provides you and your students with self-paced modules for learning various digital skills...
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany studies have investigated the value of using PowerPoint as a lecture tool. PowerPoint’s strength is often the comfort we have as educators and learners with this lesson delivery format. But sometimes, our comfort level with PowerPoint can lead us to over-anticipate the role it plays in communicating complex ideas. Most research on the effectiveness of PowerPoint shows that the...
Reading Time: 6 minutesTried and true, PowerPoint has been the best known presentation software for the last 30 years. Its strength is often the familiarity we have with using it, and many other apps and services are based on its look and feel.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough we think of PowerPoint as being best suited to building slides, in reality, it has evolved into a video creation tool, as well. Easily create intro screens, bring in cameos of yourself talking, and incorporate screen recordings. Build custom videos for your course. All this, without learning complex video editing software! Learn more about working with animations, transitions and...
