Site Guides

These screencasts will help you use this site as well as make the most of the web in general.

EDU Web Guides

EDUCast: Web Walkthrough - A Look Around the Site

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 21/02/2008 - 08:50.

This is a video walkthrough of this site. It will show you all the different sections and what can be found there. Other walkthroughs will reveal more about the site's functionality to help everyone more fully participate in the community.

Site Walkthroughs

Screencast: How to add news from this website to the Portal

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 16:12.

For those using the Portal to get their UEA news, you can get the latest from this web by following the same procedure as described in the following video for PG Oracle. All the important news feeds from this site are included. Thanks to CSED for recording this video.

Site Walkthroughs | General Computing Tips

EDUCast How-To: Login, logout, request new password and keep logged in

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 04/03/2008 - 12:34.

This screencast shows you how to

log in,
log out,
request new password and
keep logged in.

Use the tags on the screencast to move to different sections.

Site Walkthroughs

EDUCast How-To: Creating a Blog Post

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 06/03/2008 - 08:00.

This screencast shows you how to:

Start a blog post
Quote text
Tag your blog
Start or contribute to a blog project
Add your post to a group
Make your post private, ie. visible only to members of a certain group

Site Walkthroughs

EDUCast How-To: Formatting Text Using Rich-Text Editor

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 06/03/2008 - 08:08.

This screencast shows you how to:

Make text bold, italicised or struck-through
Make bulletted or numbered lists
Use indentation to quotet text
Use indentation to make sub-lists
Use keyboard shortcuts
Use styles to format section headings
Paste text form Word or other webpages using the Paste-from-Word button
Get a quick preview of how to create links and insert images

Site Walkthroughs

EDUCast How-To: Inserting Links, Files, Images, YouTube Clips into Text

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Fri, 07/03/2008 - 00:02.

In this screencast you can find out how to insert links, files, images and YouTube clips using the rich text editor.

Site Walkthroughs

EDUCast How-To: Changing Account Settings

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 13/03/2008 - 09:55.

This screencast shows you how to change your email address, password, notification settings and more using the My Account page.

Site Walkthroughs

Google Tip of the Week: Display Preferences

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 21/02/2008 - 11:18.

First in a series of short screencasts on how to make the most of Google! The tip: Set Google preferences to display 50 results at once.

Google Tips

Google Tip: Search for definitions

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 28/02/2008 - 06:53.

Second tip for more efficient use of Google: Put 'define' before a search term to see if there are any definitions of it on the web.

Google Tips

Google Tip 3: Search for exact phrases

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Fri, 07/03/2008 - 00:11.

In this screencast you'll find out how to use the "quotation marks"to search for exact phrases.

Google Tips

UC Berkley Lecture: On Search Engines

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:26.

This is not a screencast but it is an important lecture about searches and search engines! It offers many examples of users' difficulties with searching. It is aimed people designing search systems but can be equally useful to inquisitive search engine users who wish to expand their set of searching strategies. It was delivered in 2005 so it's a bit out of date on a few things but most of the important points still hold.