Tips and Tutorials

Color Management

An brief overview of issues of color management across mediums and platforms, including an explanation of calibration.

Image Editing

Tutorial guide to editing digital images.

Acrobat

Acrobat Reader is used to read and print PDF documents. A PDF document reproduces the layout and graphic look of documents that were created in other formats. It is used for capturing complex documents in a printable form, regardless of the fonts and applications installed on the readers computer.

Camtasia

Camtasia is a software program used to produce screencasts. Screencasts are recordings of computer screen output that usually contain audio narration and are published as a video files. Common uses of screencasts include demonstrating software and web applications.

Cascading Style Sheets

Tutorials for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS helps web designers by providing a mechanism for centralizing web design elements, such as positioning, layout, font, colors and style information. The advantages of using CSS include smaller file size, faster download times, improved accessibility and design consistency across a web site.

Digitizing Audio and Video

Tutorials for digitizing audio and video at the Teaching Enhancement Center (160 Powell)

Flash

Flash is a professional web authoring software used to create animation, displays with full-screen navigation interfaces, graphic illustrations, and interactivity.

Dreamweaver

Tutorials for Macromedia Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring software used for the creation of web sites.

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a simple programming language used to create many of the documents found on the World Wide Web. HTML enables you to incorporate text, graphics, sound, video, and hyperlinks.

Adobe Fireworks

Fireworks is a vector and bitmap image creation and editing software used in the development of web graphics. Fireworks offers compression tools to help optimize graphics for delivery over the Internet.

iMovie

iMovie is a highly-intuitive video editing software that allows casual users the ability achieve professional-looking results with minimal effort. This is an excellent program for those new to video editing.

Miscellaneous

Various tips that don't fit elsewhere

Moodle

In November, 2006, UCLA decided on Moodle for the common collaboration and learning environment. Moodle is in a class of software systems called Course Management Systems, which enable instructors to easily leverage a number of tools to build a course web presence.

OpenOffice

Tutorials for OpenOffice, a free and open source replacement for Microsoft Office.

Personal Response Systems

Information and tutorials for using InterWrite PRS (Personal Response System), also known as "classroom clickers." This technology facilitates student classroom interaction using a small hand-held device.

Podcasting

Podcasting enables automatic delivery of content to users via a subscription model. While still primarily a technology for delivering digital audio in the form of MP3 files, podcasting has expanded to include video ("vodcasting") and other content, such as PDF files.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint is the most commonly-used software for creating and delivering presentations. Using a slide show metaphor, the software can be used for simple projects, such as displaying a series of images, to more advanced uses, such as presenting animated graphs or video,

Premiere

Adobe Premiere is highly sophisticated video editing software program. Its extensive feature-set is geared toward more experienced video editors.

Scanning

Tutorials for scanning slides, images, documents, and text. Scanning is the process of taking materials that exist in physical form and converts them into an electronic, or digital, format.

Word

Tutorials for Microsoft Word. This popular word processing program is widely acknowledge as the defacto-standard.