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Tech Tuesday

Tech Tuesdays are short presentations on technology topics. They're generally geared toward anyone at Colorado College including students, faculty and staff members. Unless otherwise announced, they take place every Tuesday at 1:30 in the WES room and last from 15 to 25 minutes.  

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Block 8
5/14 WebApp Pecha Kucha Video & Slide deck
5/7 Photoshop - Edit your images Video & Handout
4/30 Getting in to Qualtrics Video & Slide deck
4/23 email like a pro! Video & Slide deck
Block 7
4/16 Online Privacy and Safety Video Slide deck
4/9 Notability - for iPad Rachel - Video
4/2 Free software for starving students (and the rest of us) Video Prezi slides
3/26 Portable Apps - Computer programs you can take with you Narrated Prezi
Block 6
3/19 - Spring Break! Sweet upcoming technologies Playlist
3/12 Tips and celebration of the Events Digest 5th Birthday Video, Screencast, presentation (see speaker notes)
3/5 Meet and help the Help Desk Help Desk Staff
2/26 Lynda.com and other online training Screen Recording
2/19 How to make a software manual Screen Recording
Block 5
2/12 How to avoid getting scammed Video Archive, supplemental video, sample scam
2/5 Managed Print Video archive & Presentation
1/29 Easy back-up and file sharing Video archivePresentation
1/22 Screen sharing - access your computer from home Video archive & Presentation
Half Block
1/15 PROWL tips and tricks & workshop Presentation (via Prezi)
PROWL documentation course
Help Desk guides
1/8 PROWL tips and tricks & workshop
Block 4
12/18 Templates and Mail Merge for the holidays   One template sourcesome others; and a non-Microsoft sourcehow to mail merge. And one more template list.
12/11 Free ebooks and audio books Prezi presentation (with clickable links!)
12/4 How to make beautiful documents with LaTeX Presentation (PDF format), LaTeX article 123

11/27 Windows 8 and Chrome OS session presentationWindows 8 intro & a survival guide,Chrome OS intro
Block 3
11/20 Facebook Security  Session presentation - facebook privacy settings page
11/13 Workplace Economics  Denise Sheridan (Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator, Facilities) Services; handoutPrezi presentation,
11/6 Learn Languages online! PreziDuolingo (explanation), Rosetta Stone (ad), Rocket LanguageLiving Language (also in Tutt Library)
10/30 Prezi Handout (training links, presentation, and resources) - Youtube archive
Block 2
10/23 Google Voice  
10/16 Annotating on the iPad  Brief notes with capabilitiesiAnnotateAirSketch
10/9 Annotating on your desktop  
10/2 Dreamweaver & more - editing the web  
Block 1
9/25 Painless Powerpoint  
9/18 Scanning and printing on campus  
9/11 Network drives & online storage  
9/4 Campus Tech Resources for You  

Future topics to be scheduled:

  • Meet the help desk - how you can help the help desk
  • Safety and privacy while online
  • Managed Print Initiative
  • Online Apps
  • Open Source software
  • Tech Playground
  • You CAN take it with you! - bring your favorite software with you!
  • Image editing
  • Remote Desktop

Tech Tuesday open 1:30 on Tuesdays in the WES Room in the Worner Center basement by the pool table