Monday, February 18, 2013



Cool Information Found by SMU Director of Instructional Technology Jason Spartz.
 
Students this is directed specfically to you to assist you with various research searches using Google specifically but the basics can be use with other search engines as well.
 
This is a fairly quick read that can save you a huge amount of time to gather information for papers, assignments, and other academic endeavors.
 
 
Author Jimmy Daly posted to EdTech Magazine in July 2012



A Visual Guide To Twitter For Beginners
By Jeff Dunn Posted 2/12/13

http://edudemic.com/2013/02/a-visual-guide-to-twitter-for-beginners/

These are in a format called infographics.

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

VLC Media Player

You may notice a new icon on SMU computers.  This is the icon for the VLC media player.  It is a program much like Windows Media Player or Quicktime, but in testing it has performed very well with video formats that the aforementioned programs couldn't handle.  It will be rolled out to all SMU computers as time goes on.  Try it today!