David Progue was very knowledgeable
and entertaining to listen to in his Ted! I very much enjoyed listening to his
Ted Talk about the 10 top time-saving tech tips. I also enjoyed his statement
in the beginning about how no one is really taught how to use technology, we’re
just given computers and expected to learn. A lot of the tips he shared are tips that I
have found out for myself through playing around on my computer. I’m positive
my students have also taken time to explore and could teach me a trick or two
on time-saving tips. I would like to share this list of time-saving tips with
my students. I think if they haven’t already discovered them, they would thoroughly
enjoy using them, especially the text replacing tip.
The tip that I found to be most
useful was tip #10, how to black out a PowerPoint or Keynote slide. Often when
presenting information, your audience whether its students or colleagues are
more focused on the slides behind you then on you and the information you are
presenting. I thought his tip to press the letter B to blackout the screen was
a good tip. You can temporarily black out the screen when you need your
audience to focus their attention on you and then double click B again to
resume the slideshow.
A time
saving tech-nique that I found on my own is to export PowerPoint slides into a
PDF to allow for easier download and printing. I often create my own materials
for class using Microsoft PowerPoint but when I select print, it will only
print horizontally, often cutting off half of my project. I’m sure there is a
way to fix this; I just haven’t found it yet! So in the meantime, I just select
export to PDF and save to my desktop. I am then able to open the PDF and print
the page as I had intended to. This was a little trick that saved me many trips
to the copier only to discover that only half of my page printed. If anyone has
any other suggestions on how to change printer settings in PowerPoint, I’d love
to hear them!
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