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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Basics

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This lesson focuses on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. It includes YouTubes on the some of the application's ribbons, demonstrates how to create, save, edit, insert graphics, and create and insert tables as well as user created presentations for these skills. It concludes with a final assessment which can be used to evaluate the user's ability to use the application.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Unit of Study

Author: Keith Martin

Using Internet Communications, Fall 2011

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Using Internet Communication enhances students' theoretical understanding of electronic communication and their ability to communicate as professionals, scholars, and citizens using the Internet. Participants learn core communication theoretical models and principles, and apply them to electronic communication methods that enhance interpersonal, small group, and public interactions. These methods include electronic meetings, discussion forums, co-authoring tools, audio, and video.

Material Type: Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Syllabus

Authors: Ed.M, Professor Eileen McMahon

How to Reset Microsoft Word 2013 Interface- Most Excellent Word Tips

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This is our first Microsoft Word 2013 tutorial. This Most Excellent Word Tips answers a Lone Star College student's question on how to get the ribbon bar back to the original state and where to find Word's themes. For more Most Excellent PowerPoint Tips: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnLwAnYLqFhGKP9Jzolla-9nwVKQ-bL3q To watch out Introduction to Computer series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnLwAnYLqFhFhB4eswlpmjVjj3vM805ev

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Scott Ford

At The Bar With PowerPoint 2013 - Most Excellent PowerPoint Tips

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PowerPoint Tutorial on the different program windows elements that make up the user interface. We examine the PowerPoint Title Bar, PowerPoint Ribbons and PowerPoint Status Bar. This video is part of our Most Excellent PowerPoint tips. Watch previous PowerPoint Tutorials: -The 4 Panes of PowerPoint 2013: http://youtu.be/LrpTi-QFQaQ -Add YouTube Videos To Your Presentation: http://youtu.be/kX5d_7AXrQo -Customize PowerPoint Background: http://youtu.be/y4ZPOhjFmP8 -Creating a Hypertext PowerPoint Presentation: http://youtu.be/c7xkZ6X42sA

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Scott Ford

The 4 Panes of PowerPoint 2013 - Most Excellent PowerPoint Tips

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PowerPoint Tutorial on the 4 panes that make up the PowerPoint 2013 user interface. This video is part of our Most Excellent PowerPoint tips. Watch previous PowerPoint Tutorials: -Add YouTube Videos To Your Presentation: http://youtu.be/kX5d_7AXrQo -Customize PowerPoint Background: http://youtu.be/y4ZPOhjFmP8 -Creating a Hypertext PowerPoint Presentation: http://youtu.be/c7xkZ6X42sA

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Scott Ford

Principles of Finance (Business 202)

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In this course, you will be exposed to a number of different sub-fields within finance. You will learn how to determine which projects have the best potential payoff, to manage investments, and even to value stocks. In the end, you will discover that all finance boils down to one concept: return. In essence, finance asks: ŇIf I give you money today, how much money will I get back in the future?Ó Though the answer to this question will vary widely from case to case, by the time you finish this course, you will know how to find the answer.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Principles of Management (Business 208)

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This course will illustrate the ways in which the practice of management evolves as firms grow in size. Historically, middle managers have served as so-called ŇgatekeepersÓ who collect, analyze, and pass information up and down the management chain within an organization. But two recent developments at the turn of the 21st century Đ namely, low-cost data manipulation in computers and the emergence of widespread, real-time communication (in the forms of inexpensive, long-distance global calling, email, text messaging, and social media) Đ have reduced the need for these middle-manager gatekeepers, and companies have eliminated thousands of such positions. The goal? To speed the flow of information and decision-making and reduce the number of layers that separate the customer from the leadership of an organization.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Organizational Behavior (Business 209)

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This course will cover five major OB areas including managing individuals, managing groups, power and politics, conflict management, and organizational change. Before delving into more rigorous content, it is important to understand what an organization is and the history of organizational behavior as a discipline. In taking this into consideration, this course will begin with a look at the basics of an organization.

Material Type: Full Course

Interpersonal Communication (CMST 210)

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This course introduces you to the conceptual issues and practical implications of interpersonal communication. The course is designed to provide a holistic and self-contained, although not comprehensive, introduction to the study and practice of communication within interpersonal encounters. In addition, this course focuses specifically on understanding and improving how we communicate in personal relationships including familial, friendship, work and romantic contexts. The guiding instructional philosophy of the course is that learning entails active engagement with and feedback about the targeted skill.

Material Type: Assessment, Full Course, Reading, Syllabus

Corporate Communication (Business 210)

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The introduction of Business Communication for Success, the textbook used throughout this course, notes that Ň[E]ffective communication takes preparation, practice, and persistence. There are many ways to learn communication skills; the school of experience, or Ôhard knocks,Ő is one of them. But in the business environment, a ÔknockŐ (or lesson learned) may come at the expense of your credibility through a blown presentation to a client.Ó Effective communication skills are a prerequisite for succeeding in business. Communication tools and activities connect people within and beyond the organization in order to establish the businessŐs place in the corporate community and the social community, and as a result, that communication needs to be consistent, effective, and customized for the business to prosper. Business Communication for Success provides theories and practical information that represent the heart of this course, while additional resources are included to expand or pose alternatives to the approaches chosen in the textbook. You will receive maximum benefits from this course if you complete the readings first and then use the additional resources to fill in the blanks and/or reconsider the topics in the textbook.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Small Group Communication (CMST 230)

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This course is designed to familiarize you with the major theory and research surrounding the study of small group communication and provide an opportunity to analyze and develop solutions to a community problem while working in a small group.

Material Type: Assessment, Full Course, Reading, Syllabus

Google Arabic Transliteration (ta3reeb)

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This is an input tool from Google allowing the generation of Arabic text through transliteration. This allows the user to type using the latin Keyboard and google transliterates that to Arabic. This tool is similar to Yamli.com but has a bigger box to write in which makes it faster and somewhat more convenient.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Google Inc.

Human Resource Management (Business 301)

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You know the basics of managing human capital from your Principles of Management course, but this course will introduce you to more advanced topics in the field. You will learn that identifying the best employees begins with identifying the firmŐs needs and carrying out a proper recruitment and selection process. Training, development, and performance evaluations can then shape the selected employee into an ideal firm resource. Finally, adequate and incentivizing compensation can keep those resources with the firm. This course will cover all these topics and more.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Management Leadership (Business 401)

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This course will begin with an introduction that will help further the distinction between leadership and management, and then you will be introduced to major theories and models of leadership and of leadership development from a variety of perspectives. Next, you will be introduced to the process of decision-making in a variety of leadership settings. You will then study the processes of leading independently, or without direct authority. The final unit will focus on managing groups and teams. You may not be a leader after concluding this course, but you certainly will have a better understanding of the qualities of leadership. Perhaps you will discover there is a leader right at your fingertips.

Material Type: Full Course

Project Management (Business 402)

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This course will walk you through the nuts and bolts of project management. From understanding the project life cycle to setting priorities and expectations to controlling expenses and reporting results, project management touches several resources within organizations. You will examine roles and environments and various techniques of planning, evaluation, and control. An overview of the tools used in contemporary project management will also be discussed throughout the course.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Evaluating Information Sources Using the 5 Ws

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Students use the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to evaluate an information source and determine if they would cite it in a paper. This assignment is used as an information literacy exercise at the University of Tennessee Libraries, where students are given a New York Times column to read before completing the assignment in groups. For a copy of this resource as it was originally given to students, go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vtrPDaeiV6VFJUYUNzRGlfb00/view?usp=sharing. Results of the use of this activity were shared in an article published in the journal Reference & User Services Quarterly 53, no. 4 (Summer 2014): 334-347.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Rachel Radom