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#724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions

Continuing with Clip Champ (we’ll be experts soon!) Adding captions is easy and has the added benefit that it is actually embedded within the video (eg not reliant on the browser or platform that you use). We’ll show you how to add and edit captions – we even throw in a bit of text-to-speech too… Continue reading #724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions

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#693 Flip it (Your phone)

Okay so it’s a little bug bear of mine… When I see people shooting video on their phone in portrait mode. It’s so much better if you just rotate your phone for viewing video / recording video and also taking certain photographs – otherwise you can end up with the black bar syndrome. Any black… Continue reading #693 Flip it (Your phone)

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#670 Using Moodle and Office 365 to upload (and edit) files

Within moodle – there’s an Office 365 option which allows you to link to your files in OneDrive – this saves you having to re-upload files when you update Word and PowerPoint files image CC-BY-SA-4.0 via Wikimedia

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#666 Similarity Checker in MS Word online

In this video we’ll show you how to use the basic online similarity checker for Microsoft Word online – it’s great for checking for similarities and also a great tool for gathering information for your bibliography

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#647 Share an ad-free YouTube link

Often we like to share videos with students from YouTube. Annoyingly, we get pre-video ads and recommended videos. By adding a quick bit of text to the URL, you can share a link without any of the annoying adverts. Here’s how: If your url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhdvXUG7bo add _popup between the ‘watch’ and the ‘?’ So… Continue reading #647 Share an ad-free YouTube link

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#646 Digitise printed tables in Excel (or from screens)

I remember back to doing dissertations and digitising tables was a long hand task of manually creating them using Excel and extracting data from books or journals and typing it in. Now with the Excel mobile app you scan a printed table or a screen table and the app scans and digitises the data directly… Continue reading #646 Digitise printed tables in Excel (or from screens)

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#644 Microsoft Class Notebook: Accessibility options with the Dictate tool

In this short video I’ll show you the great dictate featre within Microsoft OneNote – it allows you to dictate straight into the app and you are able to translate the dictation in to many different languages.