Links for our discussion:
UMW Library Guide to GIS Resources
Images, movies, and audio — What are your favorite sites for finding these kinds of historical materials? Post them on your blogs (linking to this post) or post them in the comments here.
Examples of UMW student digital projects:
Websites:
History of Sterilization Procedures
History of Voting Machines
Wiki projects:
History of the [...]
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I know talking to many of you that you’ve had trouble with sending your Word 2007 files to people who can’t open them with our older versions of MS Word.
One solution is to follow this link to a YouTube video explaining how you can save your file in a format that will work on earlier [...]
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Based on the blog postings and our experiences, these are the various formats we use to take notes for research papers.
Note Cards
Post-It Notes
Word Processor (with or without templates)
Outlines or free-form notes
Citation (or other pay note-taking software like Nota Bene)
Microsoft OneNote
Excel/Access–For information in larger quantities that is consistent in its form (e.g., the census).
Scribe – GMU’s [...]
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These are tips that some of us in class have found helpful in our daily computer use.
Word 97/2003
“To alphabetize a bibliography in Word97, select data, click table, sort, OK, and the data will be sorted automatically for you.” — Ellen F.
Fonts and colors in Word — Justin
Jessica reminds us that we can use CTRL-F [...]
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