Check out my first comic strip! Hope you get a chance to try bitstrips.com.

DIY Coding - Reality Check

I appreciate the honesty in this short article about the hype and the myths of the DIY approach to coding. I hope readers will take Chris' comments to be encouraging, yet also injecting a good dose of realism. And as always, I especially appreciate anyone who notes that learning is hard work!


http://qz.com/193896/no-three-month-course-can-teach-you-how-to-code/

Friendly Stats for Faculty Workshop - Excel

This is a link to my YouTube site and the recap video for Part I - Summarizing Data with Excel. This is from a workshop I coordinated at Hamline University called "Friendly Stats for Faculty" on January 10, 2014.

Video Recap - Friendly Stats for Faculty Part I

Much thanks to the three colleagues who joined me in presenting this workshop - Frank Shaw, Beth Gunderson, and Gina Erickson.

Huey (the dog who chimes in at minute 13:30) was not part of the original team.

Shorten a long url

Do you need to shorten a long url! Try:

http://goo.gl

https://bitly.com

http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url

Video Capture

Screencast-O-Matic is a fun, easy way to capture video from your computer. You need to sign up for a YouTube channel to post these to YouTube, but that's easy enough to do too.

Don't let the cheesy name fool you!

Screencast-O-Matic

Voice Over Presentations

Do you need to voice over a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint? Here is a brief video showing how to do that. The video was recorded in Screencast-O-Matic which is another great tool. I will post a link to that later!

Voice Over Presentations