Category Archives: Resources

Set Up Your Holiday Devices

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Did you receive a shiny new gadget for the holidays? Are you giving someone a new device? Did your kids (or parents) get a new iPad or Surface and need your help to set it up? Have no idea where to start?

holidaydeviceFortunately, Atomic Learning has your back. They have short video tutorials to help you register and get started with your new toy including iPad, Surface, Kindle, Xbox One and PlayStation. They also have a section on online safety. Videos are short and to the point allowing you to get up and running quickly rather than fighting with your tech.

Log into Atomic Learning with your myLesley username and password. Then access the Holiday Devices tutorial series or search for “Holiday Devices.”

 

Use an OER Textbook

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Textbooks are expensive. Some students may not buy the textbook for a course because they can’t afford it which affects their performance in the class. Others may simply not take a course due to the cost of the required texts. This infographic from OpenOregon.org visualizes the numbers. What’s the alternative?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are “teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits free use and repurposing by others.” OER includes course materials, textbooks, videos, tests, software and even full courses. OER can cut textbook costs for student making education more affordable. It can also provide more freedom to an instructor who is no longer limited to a textbook structure. Instructors decide what to teach and then look for resources to support their content.

The video from Open Oregon below provides a good intro to OER and this list of OER sites from Educause will help you get started.

 

Collaborate and Get Work Done with Office 365 Groups

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Do you have a team project or group assignment? Need to coordinate information and documents with other people? Not always in the same place at the same time?

Office 365 Groups was designed for collaboration. It’s available within Office 365 right alongside your Lesley email, your calendar and OneDrive. Create an Office 365 group and provide your team with a shared email inbox, calendar, space to share documents and a OneNote notebook. It’s a great place to work out project plans, collaborate on documents and make sure everyone is in the loop.

Get started using Office 365 groups by logging into Office 365 at http://lesley.edu/email and watch these Atomic Learning video tutorials for quick how to information.

 

Learn Anything in 20 Hours

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Atomic Learning has created the 12 Days of Learning, a series of articles designed to kick off resolutions to keep learning in the new year. We thought this was a great idea and have decided borrow (shamelessly steal) it and do our own. Over the next 12 days we will have links to a series of tutorials aimed at increasing your elearning skills.

It can be hard to learn a new skill and research suggesting that it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill to mastery can be offputting. You already have too much to do. However Josh Kaufman suggests that you can become reasonably competent at something in just 20 hours.

What? 20 hours? No way!

Yes, way! It requires a little thought and pre-planning, but you can do it. Watch the video below and Josh will tell you how.

 

Check Out Atomic Learning!

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Are you looking for help using Microsoft products such as Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive? Do you need help using Adobe Creative Suite? Are you interested in learning more about designing effective presentations or creating digital portfolios? Want to beef up your time management, critical thinking, or decision making skills? Check out Atomic Learning!

Atomic Learning is a free service available to all Lesley students, faculty and staff featuring hundreds of self-paced video tutorials on popular software tools, online tools, tech integration, mobile devices, college and career readiness, and more. Atomic Learning breaks down each topic into manageable tasks and explains each task through a one-to three-minute tutorial. You can view a tutorial when you have a quick question about a program you’re using or you can view a series of tutorials and master an entire application or topic.

Atomic Learning is available online, 24/7, from on campus or at home. Ready to give it a try? Log in to Atomic Learning with your myLesley username and password at http://atomiclearning.com/login/lesley

Want to learn more about navigating and using the Atomic Learning site? View the Atomic Learning Web Site tutorial.