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How Reduce Time, Money, Stress?
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How Help Improve Teaching, Learning, Building Community?
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#41 Creating Web & Print Friendly Graphics in Microsoft® PowerPoint® LTA#41 Audio-narrated version SHORT no intro slides Text/graphic version

LTAotW#41 Audio-narrated intro with slideshow orientation slides

Reduces amount of time needed by faculty and students to produce a variety of graphics for printing, display via projection, or on a Web page. Makes it easier for all to give credit for work done by others appropriately and clearly;  easier to avoid plagiarism.
#40:  How to Improve Student Citation Formatting LTA#40 Audio-narrated version SHORT no intro slides Text/graphic version

LTAotW#40 Audio-narrated intro with slideshow orientation slides

Reduces amount of time needed by faculty to explain and by students to learn appropriate citation requirements, formats, related resources, tools Makes it easier for all to develop and include explanatory graphics.
#39:  Managing Website Favorites and Bookmarks LTA#39 Audio-narrated version SHORT no intro slides Text/graphic version

LTAotW#39 Audio-narrated intro with slideshow orientation slides

Helps anyone manage a large collection of Website addresses Faculty member can identify Websites important for a course and show students how to return frequently and easily  to those sites
#38:  MERLOT (Repository of Instructional Resources) Membership Audio-narrated version (short - no intro slides) Text/graphic version

Audio-narrated intro with slideshow orientation slides

Helps faculty find and share  instructional resources more quickly, easily Provides more effective teaching/learning options for faculty 
#37:  Student Response Systems (Handheld classroom feedback devices) Audio-narrated version (short - no intro slides) Text/graphic version

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Helps faculty target teaching more directly on current students learning needs Students can feel and be more actively, frequently engaged in communication with faculty even in a large enrollment classroom
#36:  Automatic Updates from Your Favorite Web Sources Using an 'Aggregator' to Capture RSS Feeds: A Technology
for Keeping Up-to-Date
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Avoids wasting time checking URLs unnecessarily and can provide an aggregated summary of many info source "feeds" Makes it easier for students to track changes in important events or activities reported on the Web - in response to faculty assignments
#35:  Monitoring Web Page Changes:  Using
WhatThatPage.com
Audio-narrated version Text/graphic version Avoids wasting time checking URLs unnecessarily Makes it easier for faculty to offer students up-to-date info from rapidly changing Web resources
#34:  How to Get Electronic Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts using Library Electronic Journal Collections Audio-narrated version

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Avoids wasted time finding or checking for info before its available Help students use more scholarly research sources
#32:  Partnering with Students to Avoid “Cut and Paste” Plagiarism

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Both learners & teachers reduce time checking for plagiarism Increases ways students can understand realistic guidelines to avoid plagiarism
Please help build our collection of LTAs.  For more info or to offer an LTA or suggestion, contact Charles Ansorge, University of Nebraska-Lincoln at <mailto:cansorge@unl.edu>

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