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=Technology Tools= ||

**- Index of Specific Tools **
- a- Access (Microsoft) *

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro [formerly Breeze Meeting] Adobe Presenter  [formerly Breeze]

Adobe Acrobat Professional

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Audacity

Blackboard - Editing Preferred Email Address

Blackboard - Instructor

Blackboard - Student User

Blackboard - ePortfolio and Content Collection

Captivate

Camtasia

Chrome (Google Web Browser)

Class Climate

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Classroom Performance System - CPS

Conversion of Video Media into DVDs

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dreamweaver (Adobe)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">E2proxy (Off-Campus Library Access)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">EasiTeach [see also - Eno Interactive Whiteboard]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Education and Economic Development Act (EEDA)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Email

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- Students

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- Faculty

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- FORWARDING OUTLOOK EMAIL TO ANOTHER EMAIL ACCOUNT

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Enhanced Classrooms


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Eno Interactive Whiteboard **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> [also see EasiTeach]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Excel (Microsoft)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Expression Web* (Microsoft) (Formerly Front Page)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">FileMaker Pro * (No longer supported at USC - 3/31/2010)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Firefox (Mozilla)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Flash (Adobe)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Flashlight Online*

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">FlashPaper*

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Flip Video

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Gadwin Print Screen

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GIMP/GIMP Shop

Glogster

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Google Tools

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">HTML

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Inspiration (Inspiration)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

iPad

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">iTunes/iTunesU

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Jing

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(USC) Listservs

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- Setting up a Listserv

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- Using a Listserv

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Microsoft Office - General

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Movie Maker (Microsoft) (make note about XP and Windows 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">NVivo*
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Capturing DVD/VCR video to Windows Movie Maker (PDF)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Capturing DVD/VCR video to Windows Movie Maker (MS Word) HP Scanner

Annual licenses must be purchased through USC Software Distribution (which is in VIP). Licenses are good from July 1 –June 30, regardless of when during the year you purchase it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Open Office

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Outlook** (Microsoft)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- Vacation Rule / Out of Office <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">(.docx) opens in new window/tab

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Photoshop

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Plato Praxis

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PowerPoint (Microsoft)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Publisher (Microsoft) *

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">RM EasiTeach (Eno Board Software)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SAS * Annual licenses must be purchased through USC Software Distribution (which is in VIP). Licenses are good from July 1 –June 30, regardless of when during the year you purchase it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Scanning <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Skype
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Scanning Photos on Scanner

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SPSS *

Annual licenses must be purchased through USC Software Distribution (which is in VIP). Licenses are good from July 1 –June 30, regardless of when during the year you purchase it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Smartboard

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Smart Notebook (Smartboard Software)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sound Recorder (Microsoft)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Survey Monkey

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Switch Sound File Converter

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Transcription

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Trend Micro OfficeScan Virus Protection

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Video Duplication

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">VIP (How to Instructions)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Web Authoring

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Web Cameras (Logitech QuickCam)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Word (Microsoft)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">*Training not offered by COE Instructional Support. Other resources are supplied.


 * --- Add to Types of Software page when we make it ---**

**BLOGS**
Here are some links that might help you get started if your assignment is to create a blog. The first three links are tools that are very popular and have been around for quite a while. It you need to make a blog in Blackboard, the last link shows how to do that from the instructor's point of view.

edublogs http://edublogs.org/ "Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts ..." They have free and 'professional' versions.

Blogger http://blogger.com This is free, but you must have a Google account (gmail).

WorPress http://wordpress.com/ WorPress is free and has been aruond for a long time. It has a lot of design 'themes' and other tools to use with your blog.

Blogs in Blackboard (video) Creating a Blog http://www.blackboard.com/quicktutorials/Bb9_Tools_Create_Blog.htm This is aimed at the instructor for version 9. (The video starts immediately – you can stop or pause it, though.)

SCREENCAST TOOLS
<span style="color: #376092; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I had not heard of **ScreenR**, but the screencast programs a number of us around the COE have been using for years are **Camtasia** and **Jing**. There is also an Adobe product called **Captivate** that is very popular. (The only reason I use Camtasia instead of Captivate is that I started with Camtasia so I can do a quick screencast without thinking about it.) You can put the files you make from these programs wherever you want, such as Blackboard or in another password-protected place, so you can control who has access to the files.

<span style="color: #376092; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Camtasia** can be purchased at state contract pricing at Compusult []

<span style="color: #376092; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Captivate** can be purchased through VIP -> Software Distribution.

<span style="color: #376092; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Jing** is a free tool, but they also have a paid version that offers greater flexibility. I’m not sure of the privacy features, though. Their model is to save your files to a site called Screecast, but you can also save the files you make wherever. Mostly we use the free tool to do a quick demo of something and send it via e-mail or put it on a class Blackboard site. I couldn’t find the cost of the pro version on their site [] but it used to be $10 – a one time fee. I suspect since they don’t put it on their site, the price has probably gone up!

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