Use the player below to play Tech in a Sec videos; the most recent videos appears first.  To access previous videos, click on the playlist bar at the bottom of the player for thumbnails and titles of these videos or the playlist button ⍄ to skip through the various videos (after hitting play).

Google Apps Tutorials

Use the player below to play Google Apps tutorial videos; the most recent videos appears first.  To access previous videos, click the playlist bar at the bottom of the player for thumbnails/titles or the playlist button ⍄ to skip through the various videos (after hitting play).

Text Tutorials

Google Apps Basics | Mail
Google Apps Basics | Calendar
Creating a Google Group (text tutorial courtesy of Dusty VanGilder) OR
Google Tools Overview Placemat (including Flubaroo & autoCrat directions)

Video Tutorials

Interactive Tutorials

The videos below feature interactive elements, such as table of contents, auto-pausing, and hyperlinks.  Test them out and let us know what you think!
NOTE: If the video has a Table of Contents, you can access it by clicking on the button to the left of the Full Screen button:

Adobe Acrobat Markup & Annotation

Example PDF of Markups and Annotations   |   Adobe Acrobat Placemat   |   Sample PDF (Of Mice and Men)   |  Training Samples Package
The Acrobat Markups and Annotations tutorial is broken into sections (most are 2-3 minutes in length) that can be accessed in two ways:
  1. Through the Home Screen (appears right after 'Tech in a Sec' opening).  NOTE: You may need to full screen the video to press the Multimedia button.
  2. By clicking on the Table of Contents Button (see above for instructions).
Take a look beforehand at this example PDF to see what you can do with PDFs within Adobe Acrobat.  The series covers how to do the following:


Open the video in a separate window

http://tinyurl.com/acrobat1031
  • Initial Acrobat Setup - for easily accessing mark up and annotation tools within a PDF
  • Bookmarking Pages - quick navigation to certain passages
  • Highlighting Text - for emphasizing certain text
  • Sticky Notes on Text - for quick info by hovering over a note (e.g. definitions)
  • Shapes to Markup Text - another way to emphasize text (e.g. circles, rectangles, arrows)
  • Clickable Table of Contents - for students to quickly click on/access bookmarked sections
  • Adding Interactive Multimedia to PDFs - to include movie files, MP3s, your recorded voice (all playable directly within the PDF), and adding any file as a downloadable attachment.
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