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Create
Richer HTML5 Content in Existing Publishing Platforms

Share
Content Seamlessly Across Any H5P Capable Site

Reuse and modify
Content in Your Browser at Any Time

Start creating rich interactive content on your own website. It's free and easy to get started.

Get started with H5P

Supercharge your website with H5P

H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse HTML5 content and applications. H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently - all you need is a web browser and a web site with an H5P plugin.

Mobile friendly content

H5P content is responsive and mobile friendly, which means that users will experience the same rich, interactive content on computers, smartphones and tablets alike.

Share rich content

H5P enables existing CMSs and LMSs to create richer content. With H5P, authors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, games, advertisements and more. Content may be imported and exported. All that is needed to view or edit H5P content is a web browser. H5P content types and applications are shared here on H5P.org. H5P content may be created on any H5P enabled web site like H5P.com or your own Drupal or WordPress site with the H5P plugin installed.

Free to use

H5P is a completely free and open technology, licensed with the MIT license. Demos/downloads, tutorials and documentation are all available for users who want to join the community.

Check out the content types

There are several H5P content types and applications to suit various needs.

Need help with H5P?

Take a look at the Documentation pages. If you can't find an answer there, you can post a question to the H5P community in the Forum. Selected companies also provide H5P related services.

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H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.

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Make interactive videos, presentation and more.

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Lumi Education GbR Jan Philip Schellenberg und Sebastian Rettig

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Create, edit, share and find interactive content.

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B.C.’s Post-Secondary Digital Learning Strategy

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B.C.’s Post-Secondary Digital Learning Strategy

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The Digital Learning Strategy outlines strategic priorities, recommended actions, guidance and resources to support the post-secondary system with digital learning in B.C. The strategy was developed by the Digital Learning Advisory Committee, a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills and subject-matter experts from across B.C.’s post-secondary system.

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Digital Learning Strategy - Province of British Columbia

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Students cannot be required to register for tools that fall outside the VIU suite of software. When presenting students with a third-party tool (including GenAI tools) instructors must disclose what the tool is, why it is being used, what data is collected through using the tool, how this data will be used, and what students can do to opt out of their data being collected. Equivalent alternative assignments must be available for students who opt out of registering for third-party tools. If students cannot opt out of the tool without penalty (eg. the activity is graded, or no alternative is available), a Privacy Impact Assessment is required. More information on data privacy and security is available through the office of the Secretary and General Counsel, and on learning, teaching and assessment practices through the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning.

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Initiating a Privacy Impact AssessmentIf your department is contemplating a new system or program or is making a significant change to an existing program that involves personal information, a Privacy Impact Assessment should be completed.The first step is to complete and submit a PIA Needs Analysis Questionnaire.

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This collection includes digital tools that some instructors find empowering for their students; some tools are used for efficiency and many tools support communication. You are invited to consider and explore the digital "buffet".

I share the advice of Dr. Roopika Risam (Research - Roopika Risam) advice regarding using digital tools and how to avoid being overwhelmed by the digital “buffet”: “keeping it simple, starting small, gaining confidence, and helping students gain theirs; if you like it, great, if you don’t add something new next time."

Reference

Moore, A. (2022). Reflections on the 2022 Digital Pedagogy Institute. Reflections on the 2022 Digital Pedagogy Institute | SFU Library

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VIUBlogs is a multisite WordPress installation that can be used by current VIU students to design and develop standalone websites, blogs and portfolios that contribute to your learning at VIU.

User Guidelines

All VIUBlogs users must abide by all local, provincial, and federal laws (including copyright and intellectual property law) as well as VIU's Use of Information Technology Policy and all other relevant VIU policies.

VIU students must also abide by the Student Academic Code of Conduct Policy, and Student Code of Conduct Policy

VIUBlogs sites may not be used for commercial purposes or for the benefit of organizations not directly affiliated with the University.

Content that is found to violate laws or VIU policies may be removed or unpublished without notice.

VIUBlogs sites belonging to current employees or students will remain on VIUBlogs for as long as the site continues to be actively maintained.

Sites that are not maintained and sites which do not have an active VIU employee or student listed as an administrator will be removed once each year in July.
A site is considered no longer maintained if the site has not been updated in more than one year. Student-administered sites will be retained for at least one academic year after the last update to the site.

Login to VIUBlogs

Before you create or join a VIUBlogs site, you will want to make sure you have logged into the platform.

Navigate to VIUBlogs

Click Login with your VIU account

Login with your VIU Computer Account credentials. These will be the same credentials you use to login to VIULearn

Please note: Your username is your student number with no spaces, dashes or additional characters. Do not add VIU\ in front of your student number in the username input field.

I Can't Log In or I Forgot My Password. What Do I Do?

If you have forgotten your VIU Computer Account credentials or are having any difficulties logging into VIUBlogs, a good first step is to try and reset your Computer Account password and try again. If you have tried resetting a password and it is still not working, you may have reset your Student Record password instead of your Computer Account password.

You can find instructions on how to reset your Computer Account password on the IT Department's website.

If you have reset your Computer Account password and you are still unable to login, you can contact the IT Department for further assistance.

Create a VIUBlogs Site

Navigate to VIUBlogs while logged into your account.

Click the Create a new site link from the homepage.

You should now be at the site creation page. First, choose a name for your site (this will form your unique URL) and then enter a title for your site. URLs can only contain lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers. The URL is not something you can change later, but the title can be changed at any time.

If you would prefer to keep your site from appearing in internet search results, check the No button under Allow search engines to index this site.

There also exists options to hide the site from public access on the internet. Your options include:

Visible only to registered users of this network: Your site will only be visible to VIU community members with the link to your site after they have signed in.

Visible only to registered users of this site: Your site will only be visible to VIU community members who have been added to your site.

Visible only to administrators of this site: Your site will only be visible to you, and any other administrators of your site.

Click the Create Site button.

Congratulations, you have just created your site!

Clicking on the name of your site will take you to the web view of the site. It looks pretty stark at first but we can edit the theme to make it look more unique and visually appealing. .

VIUBlog Profile

When you first login to VIUBlogs, we would highly recommend that you edit your VIUBlogs profile settings. In particular, we would recommend that you enter and confirm an email address into the Email input field. Doing so will allow other VIUBlog users to invite you to their sites.

You may also wish to edit and change your Display name so that your name (rather then your student number) is displayed publicly to other users.

Enter and Confirm an Email Address in VIUBlogs.

Navigate to VIUBlogs. and login using your VIU Computer Account credentials.

Click Howdy in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Scroll down and insert an email address in the Email (required) input field.

Click the blue Update Profile button at the bottom of the page.

You will be taken back to the top of the page and you should see a "Your email address has not been updated yet. Please check your inbox for a confirmation email". Please Note: You will need to click on the link in this confirmation email before your email address has been successfully changed.

Login to your email client and find and click the confirmation link that has been sent. If you do not see the confirmation email in your inbox after a couple of minutes, check your span and junk folders.

Once you have clicked on the confirmation link, you should be taken to your profile settings page and should see a Profile updated confirmation message without any additional messages or warning.

Change your Display Name in VIUBlogs.

Navigate to VIUBlogs. and login using your VIU Computer Account credentials.

Click Howdy in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Scroll down and insert the name you wish to be displayed in VIUBlogs in the Nickname (required) input field.

Click the input field next to the Display name publicly as heading. Select your newly created Nickname from the dropdown menu.

Click the blue Update Profile button at the bottom of the page.

You will see a "Profile updated" confirmation message at the top of the page.

VIUBlog Dashboard

You can edit and create content on VIUBlogs by navigating to your Dashboard. From your Dashboard, you can create posts and pages, add media, add users to your site, customize your theme, and much more. To navigate to your Dashboard:

Navigate to VIUBlogs.

Click the Login with your VIU account link. Login using your VIU Computer account credentials.

You will be taken to your Dashboard upon login. In order to make changes to a particular site, you will need to navigate to the Dashboard of that site. You can do so by clicking My Sites in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

You will be taken to a page that lists all the VIUBlog site you are a user of. Click the Dashboard link underneath the site you would like to edit.

The My Sites option will appear in the upper left hand corner of every page you visit in VIUBlogs. If you ever need to go to the Dashboard of one of your sites, you can always do so by clicking on this link.

VIUBlogs is a multisite WordPress installation that can be used by current VIU students to design and develop standalone websites, blogs and portfolios that contribute to your learning at VIU.

User Guidelines

All VIUBlogs users must abide by all local, provincial, and federal laws (including copyright and intellectual property law) as well as VIU's Use of Information Technology Policy and all other relevant VIU policies.

VIU students must also abide by the Student Academic Code of Conduct Policy, and Student Code of Conduct Policy

VIUBlogs sites may not be used for commercial purposes or for the benefit of organizations not directly affiliated with the University.

Content that is found to violate laws or VIU policies may be removed or unpublished without notice.

VIUBlogs sites belonging to current employees or students will remain on VIUBlogs for as long as the site continues to be actively maintained.

Sites that are not maintained and sites which do not have an active VIU employee or student listed as an administrator will be removed once each year in July.
A site is considered no longer maintained if the site has not been updated in more than one year. Student-administered sites will be retained for at least one academic year after the last update to the site.

Login to VIUBlogs

Before you create or join a VIUBlogs site, you will want to make sure you have logged into the platform.

Navigate to VIUBlogs.

Click the Login with your VIU account link.

Login with your VIU Computer Account credentials. These will be the same credentials you use to login to VIULearn.

Please note: Your username is your student number with no spaces, dashes or additional characters. Do not add VIU\ in front of your student number in the username input field.

I Can't Log In or I Forgot My Password. What Do I Do?

If you have forgotten your VIU Computer Account credentials or are having any difficulties logging into VIUBlogs, a good first step is to try and reset your Computer Account password and try again. If you have tried resetting a password and it is still not working, you may have reset your Student Record password instead of your Computer Account password.

You can find instructions on how to reset your Computer Account password on the IT Department's website.

If you have reset your Computer Account password and you are still unable to login, you can contact the IT Department for further assistance.

Create a VIUBlogs Site

Navigate to the VIUBlogs homepage while logged into your account.

Click the Create a new site link from the homepage.

You should now be at the site creation page. First, choose a name for your site (this will form your unique URL) and then enter a title for your site. URLs can only contain lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers. The URL is not something you can change later, but the title can be changed at any time.

If you would prefer to keep your site from appearing in internet search results, check the No button under Allow search engines to index this site.

There also exists options to hide the site from public access on the internet. Your options include:

Visible only to registered users of this network: Your site will only be visible to VIU community members with the link to your site after they have signed in.

Visible only to registered users of this site: Your site will only be visible to VIU community members who have been added to your site.

Visible only to administrators of this site: Your site will only be visible to you, and any other administrators of your site.

Click the Create Site button.

Congratulations, you have just created your site!

Clicking on the name of your site will take you to the web view of the site. It looks pretty stark at first but we can edit the theme to make it look more unique and visually appealing. .

VIUBlog Profile.

When you first login to VIUBlogs, we would highly recommend that you edit your VIUBlogs profile settings. In particular, we would recommend that you enter and confirm an email address into the Email input field. Doing so will allow other VIUBlog users to invite you to their sites.

You may also wish to edit and change your Display name so that your name (rather then your student number) is displayed publicly to other users.

Enter & Confirm an Email Address in VIUBlogs.

Navigate to VIUBlogs. and login using your VIU Computer Account credentials.

Click Howdy in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Scroll down and insert an email address in the Email (required) input field.

Click the blue Update Profile button at the bottom of the page.

You will be taken back to the top of the page and you should see a "Your email address has not been updated yet. Please check your inbox for a confirmation email". Please Note: You will need to click on the link in this confirmation email before your email address has been successfully changed.

Login to your email client and find and click the confirmation link that has been sent. If you do not see the confirmation email in your inbox after a couple of minutes, check your span and junk folders.

Once you have clicked on the confirmation link, you should be taken to your profile settings page and should see a Profile updated confirmation message without any additional messages or warning.

Change your Display Name in VIUBlogs.

Navigate to VIUBlogs. and login using your VIU Computer Account credentials.

Click Howdy in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Scroll down and insert the name you wish to be displayed in VIUBlogs in the Nickname (required) input field.

Click the input field next to the Display name publicly as heading. Select your newly created Nickname from the dropdown menu.

Click the blue Update Profile button at the bottom of the page.

You will see a "Profile updated" confirmation message at the top of the page.

VIUBlog Dashboard

You can edit and create content on VIUBlogs by navigating to your Dashboard. From your Dashboard, you can create posts & pages, add media, add users to your site, customize your theme, and much more. To navigate to your Dashboard:

Navigate to VIUBlogs.

Click the Login with your VIU account link. Login using your VIU Computer account credentials.

You will be taken to your Dashboard upon login. In order to make changes to a particular site, you will need to navigate to the Dashboard of that site. You can do so by clicking My Sites in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

You will be taken to a page that lists all the VIUBlog site you are a user of. Click the Dashboard link underneath the site you would like to edit.

The My Sites option will appear in the upper left hand corner of every page you visit in VIUBlogs. If you ever need to go to the Dashboard of one of your sites, you can always do so by clicking on this link.

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With your breakout group, select one tool from the toolbox you have used (or would like to use). Then, work together to explain why and how you use (or will use) the tool to enhance your teaching practice and benefit student learning.

Summarize your discussion with a few bullet points or sentences. Consider the SECTION model (in Padlet) in your summary. Who will benefit by using the technology, and what are some concerns?

Add your summary to the related post on the Padlet board.

Include a contact name in the post so that faculty members can reach out to seek your expertise.

Select one person in your group to present and explain your tool selection.

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Vancouver Island University - Knowledge Base

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This page contains a list of software available to students and employees and how it can be accessed. Please note that not all software is available in all locations, and some software is only available for specific programs.

What software is standard on all computers?

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Alertus

Firefox

Flex Agent

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Java

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.6.1

Microsoft Office 2016/2019/365

VLC Media Player

How to Access Software from this List

For details on how to access a particular software title, see the appropriate "How to Access" column for the software you'd like to access.

Software titles listed below with a green arrow iconare available to download for free.

Software titles listed below with a pink cloud iconare available for students to access online. For more information on how to access software remotely, visit: How do I access software online?

List of Available Software

Accessibility

Visual thinking tool for creating mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, outlines and presentations.

B250-200
B305 Library accessibility stations

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request a quote to purchase

Text-to-Speech

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

Adobe Products

Accounting

Sage 50

An advanced small business desktop accounting solution

ABT students: Contact your instructor for details

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

Quickbooks

Accounting software package

Contact your instructor for details

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

Audio/Video

Design & Development

A computer-aided design (CAD) software used to create precise 2D and 3D drawings.
Free for students
Email ithelp@viu.ca to request a quote to purchase

A source code editor with a primary focus on web development.
Free download

3D creation suite that supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.
Free download

This software provides you with the tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.
Free download

ACD/ChemSketch is a molecular modeling program used to create and modify images of chemical structures.
Free for students
Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Inkscape is a vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics format.
Free download

MATLAB

A multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks.

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

R

R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing.
Free download

RoadEng

Engineering software for rural infrastructure.

B250-115
B315-113
B370-108

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

An integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics.
Free download

GIS Applications

ArcGIS

ArcGIS is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information

B305-508
B315-113
B370-108
B360-202 computer lab

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

2D drafting & drawing software
Free for students
Email ithelp@viu.ca to request a quote to purchase

Geomatica

Remote sensing desktop software package for processing earth observation data

Email ithelp@viu.ca to request

Mathematics, Mapping, Statistics, Data Analysis, and Scientific Software

Meetings & Collaboration

Teams is a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration workspace. It brings together instant messaging, threaded conversations, file sharing, voice and video conversations, and more.
Instructions Instructions

Zoom is VIU's officially supported virtual classroom and meeting software.
Instructions Instructions

Microsoft Office

Reference Management

Survey

Utilities

7-zip

A free and open-source file archiver utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives".

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SECTION MODEL - guide to selecting ed. tech.

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Build your website, build your success

From tech hurdles big and small to business growth tips, help from our Customer Success team is just an email, chat, or phone call away. Begin with Weebly's free website builder and lean on us for help along the way.

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Weebly is the easiest way to create a website, store or blog

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VIUBlogs is a multisite WordPress installation offered and supported by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning at Vancouver Island University. WordPress blogs can be used by current employees and students to design and develop standalone websites, blogs and portfolios that contribute to teaching and learning at VIU.

The following guidelines explain how we support VIUBlogs and the expectations for how employees and students will use this platform. If you have any questions about these guidelines or using VIUBlogs, please contact us at learnsupport@viu.ca.

User Guidelines

All VIUBlogs users must abide by all local, provincial, and federal laws (including copyright and intellectual property law) as well as VIU's Use of Information Technology Policy and all other relevant VIU policies.

VIU students must also abide by the Student Academic Code of Conduct Policy, and Student Code of Conduct Policy

VIUBlogs sites may not be used for commercial purposes or for the benefit of organizations not directly affiliated with the University.

Official, department, program and promotional content for VIU should be located on the VIU website rather than VIUBlogs. Please contact ithelp@viu.ca to request a VIU website.

Content that is found to violate laws or VIU policies may be removed or unpublished without notice.

Support

Staff in the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) provide basic orientation to using WordPress and technical support for accessing the platform and core functionality. To request support, email learnsupport@viu.ca

CIEL will carry out annual site removals in accordance to the guidelines below to minimize the number of inactive or abandoned sites on the blogs network.

Site Retention & Removal

It is the responsibility of site administrators to either transfer ownership of their site or export their site content and move it to a new host platform upon leaving the university. Steps for how to export your VIUBlogs site can be found on CIEL's website.

VIUBlogs sites belonging to current employees or students will remain on VIUBlogs for as long as the site continues to be actively maintained.

Sites that are not maintained and sites which do not have an active VIU employee or student listed as an administrator will be removed once each year in July.
A site is considered no longer maintained if the site has not been updated in more than one year. Student-administered sites will be retained for at least one academic year after the last update to the site.

Themes & Plugins

VIUBlogs offers a limited number of themes and plugins for styling and adding functionality to your site. Themes and plugins that present security concerns or which are no longer maintained by their developer will be removed from VIUBlogs.
CIEL staff will attempt to contact administrators of blogs which will lose functionality or need to choose a new theme using the email address registered in VIUBlogs. If there is no administrator email attached to your site, you will not be notified of theme or plugin removal.

If there is a functionality or theme you want for your site that is not currently available, suggestions for new plugins or themes can be sent to learnsupport@viu.ca. CIEL staff will evaluate the request for compatibility, security, and privacy and make a determination about whether we can add a theme or plugin after that evaluation.

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VIUBlogs - Blogging network at Vancouver Island University

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Padlet is an online tool that allows users to create a digital canvas, which can be used for collaborative brainstorming, organizing ideas, and presenting information. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and customizable, making it a popular choice for teachers and students.

The components of a Padlet canvas include:

Wall: This is the main canvas where you can add content such as text, images, videos, and documents.

Posts: These are individual pieces of content that can be added to the wall. Posts can be customized with different colors, fonts, and backgrounds.

Media: Padlet allows users to add a wide variety of media, including images, videos, audio files, and documents.

Layout: The layout of the Padlet canvas can be customized to fit your needs. You can choose from different templates or create your own layout.

Privacy settings: Padlet offers several privacy settings, including public, private, and password-protected. You can also control who can view and edit your Padlet canvas.

Collaboration tools: Padlet allows multiple users to collaborate on the same canvas in real-time. You can also leave comments and feedback on individual posts.

Overall, Padlet is a versatile tool that can be used for a wide range of purposes, from classroom activities to business presentations.

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Cloud Storage and File Sharing

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Get more done with Microsoft 365

Create your best work with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and other Office apps. Plus, get 1 TB of cloud storage, document sharing, ransomware recovery, and more with OneDrive.

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Microsoft OneDrive | Sign In or Sign up | Free Cloud Storage

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Record and edit - make podcasts and more!

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Audacity ® | Free Audio editor, recorder, music making and more!

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AI art generators have been in the news a lot this year, be it for their amazing advances or questionable uses. OpenAI's Dall-E 2 is one of the major names in this space. It's now open to the public and developers, and soon it'll be built into Microsoft software and the Bing search engine.

Stock art service Shutterstock is also going to integrate the tool, and pay artists it copies to give back and (maybe) avoid some of the ethical concerns. Shutterstock art was, after all, used in part to train the Dall-E AI.

But how, exactly, do you work with Dall-E? Is it really as simple as typing in a description-called a prompt-and getting back a picture? To be honest, yes. But there's a lot more to be aware of if you want to get anywhere close to the perfect result. Let's talk about it.

Sign Up and Pay Up

The first thing to do is create an account at labs.openai.com. Use a Google or Microsoft account, or create a login with an email address and a strong password. There's no multifactor authentication option.

Dall-E is not entirely free. The service runs on " credits." You get 50 free credits at signup, and then 15 credits free per month after that, but they don't roll over. Paid credits do roll over month to month, for up to 12 months; get 115 credits for $15.

One credit lets you do one AI art generation (you get four new images per typical generation). That could start from a prompt, but also a credit is used for creating a variation of already-generated art. You can use a lot of credits trying to drill down on the right AI-generated picture.

The Perfect Prompt

Once signed up, you'll be confronted with a form for your prompt. If you click the Surprise Me button, you'll see other random prompts dropped into the text box-they don't count against your credits until you click Generate. You can also upload an image of your own and use Dall-E to edit it to add new AI-generated content, or to make completely new variations of the original.

But the prompt is the thing. It's likely where most people will stumble. We've done our own experiments to see how random prompts can do with Dall-E and its competition like Midjourney to create art. The initial prompt always makes something...interesting. But it's seldom perfect. Things are always a little mushy. A little odd. A little off. The art turns out a lot better if you perfect the prompt, which is limited to 400 characters ( emojis work).

Design prompts have both content (what you want to see) and modifiers (how it should look). For example: "A robot drawing a painting at an easel" is content, but "over-the-shoulder view, colorful, oil paint, in the style of Van Gogh" are all modifiers.

Not feeling very creative? There are people who will help you create the right prompt to get the right art. They go by job titles like Prompt Designers or Prompt Engineers, and their expertise doesn't come for free. But if you're going to do this a lot, getting the prompt right up front can save you money, because you won't use as many credits.

In addition to videos like the one above, there are sources like The Dall-E 2 Prompt Book from dall-ery gall-ery. It's worth a read. It spells out many "hacks" you should take into consideration in your prompt, such as using terms like "close-up" and possible camera angles, types of lighting, listing eras to mimic, such as "1920s," or even mentioning a specific camera lens or smartphone type that "shoot" the AI image.

Using emotional words to get a more positive or negative image is big, as are using words to set the mood/aesthetics. Prompts to get the most out of AI-generated "photos" and "illustrations" is a whole world in and of itself. The possibilities are endless. Your only limit is 400 characters.

The one thing you can't do with Dall-E is generate images of real people. Well, you're not supposed to, anyway. It has filters and limitations in place to make sure, but with billions of images studied, who knows when Dall-E might issue a picture that looks like a celeb. That said, you can reference films and shows to approximate their looks and style.

Can you prompt for a style that mimics a living artist? Of course, and if Dall-E has seen that artist's work it can probably deliver an imitation. A style can't be copyrighted, but of course, it's a crappy thing to do if you're going to use it commercially when you could have worked with an artist.

Image Variations

Any image you generate in Dall-E-or any image you upload to Dall-E (make sure you're the copyright holder)-can get an instant variation. Uploaded images have to be cropped down to a square 1:1 ratio image.

You can also create variations of a variation. Just keep clicking on the three-dot menu on images and select Variation to make more.

Variations can't really be controlled. It's simply Dall-E looking at the content of an image and creating something approximately the same, with the same styles, similar layouts, etc.

Let's say you've created an image with Dall-E and you like it. Mostly. But there's something not quite right. Select Edit, and delete the part you don't like with the eraser tool, re-write part of the prompt to address that section (say a face that needs more specific description, or a whole new background to replace the original). Dall-E creates a variation based on the new specs in the prompt. Your prompt still has to describe the entire desired image, not only the erased area.

This eraser option also works with images you can upload, so you could delete a head or a whole background. Write a prompt for what you want to appear in the erased section. For example, erase some sky and use the prompt "an upside-down crop-duster airplane" to see it appear overhead. Working within the confines of a generated image in Dall-E is called "inpainting."

Erase part of your upload, create a prompt, and generate new AI art in that spot. (Credit: PCMag)

Make an Image Larger

So what is "outpainting" then? Well, generally the output from Dall-E is limited to you downloading an image measuring 1,024-by-1,024 pixels. Another thing you can do under Edit is to create Generation Frames. Click the Add Generation Frame icon that looks like a box with a plus sign on the upper left (or press the letter F), and you'll get a floating box you can place anywhere outside the image perimeter.

Generating a frame to extend a Dall-E image. (Credit: PCMag)

Click Generate again and the image will extend into that frame, as if the AI had just continued drawing/shooting into the extended space with the same prompt. Keep doing it until the image is as big as you want. Each new frame generated uses up a credit, of course.

When you're ready to own it, click the download button (the down arrow) and you'll get a .PNG file of your new masterpiece. If you really want to upscale your image resolution after that, you can try a website like bigjpg.com or ARC Face Restorer (which also fixes faces) or a commercial piece of software like the $99.99 Gigapixel AI.

Remember, you can always go back to your My Collection page on the Dall-E site and see all of the images you've ever created, including variations. So if you had an idea to improve an older image you never downloaded, you can get back to it.

If you created something really amazing, you can click Share > Publish. This puts the image on a public page at openai.com, for which you get a special link to share with others. It will show off the image plus the prompt used to create it. If you don't want to go that public, try Save > Favorites to put it in a collection that you can view later.

Become an Artist

Ready to try your hand at AI artistry? All you need to do is sign up and type. Give it a try at Dall-E with the free credits and you'll have a taste for all the AI-generated art that is likely to come our way in the next several decades.

A variation on an upload, extended with new frames. (Generated on Dall-E)

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Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose - to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work on tasks that zap our time, creativity and energy. To reconnect to the soul of our work, we don't just need a better way of doing the same things. We need a whole new way to work.

Today, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot - your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.

"Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth," said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. "With our new copilot for work, we're giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface - natural language."

Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more - to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills. Today we're also announcing an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data - your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts - to do things you've never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like "Tell my team how we updated the product strategy," and it will generate a status update based on the morning's meetings, emails and chat threads.

With Copilot, you're always in control. You decide what to keep, modify or discard. Now, you can be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook and more collaborative in Teams.

Microsoft 365 Copilot transforms work in three ways:

Unleash creativity. With Copilot in Word, you can jump-start the creative process so you never start with a blank slate again. Copilot gives you a first draft to edit and iterate on - saving hours in writing, sourcing, and editing time. Sometimes Copilot will be right, other times usefully wrong - but it will always put you further ahead. You're always in control as the author, driving your unique ideas forward, prompting Copilot to shorten, rewrite or give feedback. Copilot in PowerPoint helps you create beautiful presentations with a simple prompt, adding relevant content from a document you made last week or last year. And with Copilot in Excel, you can analyze trends and create professional-looking data visualizations in seconds.

Unlock productivity. We all want to focus on the 20% of our work that really matters, but 80% of our time is consumed with busywork that bogs us down. Copilot lightens the load. From summarizing long email threads to quickly drafting suggested replies, Copilot in Outlook helps you clear your inbox in minutes, not hours. And every meeting is a productive meeting with Copilot in Teams. It can summarize key discussion points - including who said what and where people are aligned and where they disagree - and suggest action items, all in real time during a meeting. And with Copilot in Power Platform, anyone can automate repetitive tasks, create chatbots and go from idea to working app in minutes.

GitHub data shows that Copilot promises to unlock productivity for everyone. Among developers who use GitHub Copilot, 88% say they are more productive, 74% say that they can focus on more satisfying work, and 77% say it helps them spend less time searching for information or examples.

But Copilot doesn't just supercharge individual productivity. It creates a new knowledge model for every organization - harnessing the massive reservoir of data and insights that lies largely inaccessible and untapped today. Business Chat works across all your business data and apps to surface the information and insights you need from a sea of data - so knowledge flows freely across the organization, saving you valuable time searching for answers. You will be able to access Business Chat from Microsoft 365.com, from Bing when you're signed in with your work account, or from Teams.

Uplevel skills. Copilot makes you better at what you're good at and lets you quickly master what you've yet to learn. The average person uses only a handful of commands - such as "animate a slide" or "insert a table" - from the thousands available across Microsoft 365. Now, all that rich functionality is unlocked using just natural language. And this is only the beginning.

Copilot will fundamentally change how people work with AI and how AI works with people. As with any new pattern of work, there's a learning curve - but those who embrace this new way of working will quickly gain an edge.
The Copilot System: Enterprise-ready AI
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to deliver enterprise-ready AI with the Copilot System. Copilot is more than OpenAI's ChatGPT embedded into Microsoft 365. It's a sophisticated processing and orchestration engine working behind the scenes to combine the power of LLMs, including GPT-4, with the Microsoft 365 apps and your business data in the Microsoft Graph - now accessible to everyone through natural language.

Grounded in your business data. AI-powered LLMs are trained on a large but limited corpus of data. The key to unlocking productivity in business lies in connecting LLMs to your business data - in a secure, compliant, privacy-preserving way. Microsoft 365 Copilot has real-time access to both your content and context in the Microsoft Graph. This means it generates answers anchored in your business content - your documents, emails, calendar, chats, meetings, contacts and other business data - and combines them with your working context - the meeting you're in now, the email exchanges you've had on a topic, the chat conversations you had last week - to deliver accurate, relevant, contextual responses.

Built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to security, compliance and privacy. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 and automatically inherits all your company's valuable security, compliance, and privacy policies and processes. Two-factor authentication, compliance boundaries, privacy protections, and more make Copilot the AI solution you can trust.

Architected to protect tenant, group and individual data. We know data leakage is a concern for customers. Copilot LLMs are not trained on your tenant data or your prompts. Within your tenant, our time-tested permissioning model ensures that data won't leak across user groups. And on an individual level, Copilot presents only data you can access using the same technology that we've been using for years to secure customer data.

Integrated into the apps millions use every day. Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated in the productivity apps millions of people use and rely on every day for work and life - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more. An intuitive and consistent user experience ensures it looks, feels and behaves the same way in Teams as it does in Outlook, with a shared design language for prompts, refinements and commands.

Designed to learn new skills. Microsoft 365 Copilot's foundational skills are a game changer for productivity: It can already create, summarize, analyze, collaborate and automate using your specific business content and context. But it doesn't stop there. Copilot knows how to command apps (e.g., "animate this slide") and work across apps, translating a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation. And Copilot is designed to learn new skills. For example, with Viva Sales, Copilot can learn how to connect to CRM systems of record to pull customer data - like interaction and order histories - into communications. As Copilot learns about new domains and processes, it will be able to perform even more sophisticated tasks and queries.
Committed to building responsibly
At Microsoft, we are guided by our AI principles and Responsible AI Standard and decades of research on AI, grounding and privacy-preserving machine learning. A multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers and policy experts reviews our AI systems for potential harms and mitigations - refining training data, filtering to limit harmful content, query- and result-blocking sensitive topics, and applying Microsoft technologies like InterpretML and Fairlearn to help detect and correct data bias. We make it clear how the system makes decisions by noting limitations, linking to sources, and prompting users to review, fact-check and adjust content based on subject-matter expertise.
Moving boldly as we learn
In the months ahead, we're bringing Copilot to all our productivity apps-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Viva, Power Platform, and more. We'll share more on pricing and licensing soon. Earlier this month we announced Dynamics 365 Copilot as the world's first AI Copilot in both CRM and ERP to bring the next-generation AI to every line of business.

Everyone deserves to find purpose and meaning in their work - and Microsoft 365 Copilot can help. To serve the unmet needs of our customers, we must move quickly and responsibly, learning as we go. We're testing Copilot with a small group of customers to get feedback and improve our models as we scale, and we will expand to more soon.

Learn more on the Microsoft 365 blog and visit WorkLab to get expert insights on how AI will create a brighter future of work for everyone.

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For years, creating good voice overs meant investing hundreds if not thousands of dollars in hiring voice artists, renting a recording studio to get the script recorded, investing in expensive recording equipment (if you are recording from home), and recruiting or outsourcing the entire project to an audio editor to mix the audio and produce a high-quality voiceover. Not to mention, the valuable hours dedicated to the entire process. Even after all this, the quality of the produced audio file may be subpar.

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Murf's advanced AI algorithms catch the right tone and pick up on every punctuation and exclamation mark from the human voice fed it. As such, the platform's AI voices sound close to a human than one can imagine.

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Using Murf's AI technology, you can add a well-timed AI voiceover to your videos and make them more engaging. Unlike most video editing software, Murf doesn't require video editing skills.

For example, say you want to create a corporate training module and explainer videos for your staff. Such content demands an expert voice that draws on the essence of professionalism and instills confidence in potential partners. Murf offers different voices-both male and female-that will enhance the quality of your corporate training module.

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Murf also simplifies the process of editing recorded voiceovers. Simply feed your recorded speech onto the Murf Studio and it automatically transcribes the content into an editable text format that you can edit and modify.

You can also remove any unneeded bits and background noise from your recording in the same way that you would delete words from a document, and your voice over will be trimmed accordingly.

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With Murf, you can also create an AI voice clone that delivers life-like diction and the full spectrum of human emotion and conveys all the nuances of human speech. In fact, using the voice cloning service, you can customize your AI voice clone to exhibit different emotions depending on the use case, be it advertisements, IVR, or character voices in games and animation. Murf currently only offers voice cloning services in the English language.

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Murf also supports an AI voice changer feature which offers one access to upload a raw home recording and convert that into a professional quality voice over with the voice of your choice. You don't have to worry about investing in expensive recording equipment, hiring a voice actor, or renting out a studio. With Murf, you can record your audio files freestyle, and, with the click of a button convert it to studio quality.

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With its cutting-edge technology and realistic AI voices, Murf is the perfect solution for individuals and businesses looking to enhance their audio content. Let's explore some of the diverse applications of Murf:

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When it comes to eLearning, Murf can be used to quickly convert text-based educational content into a more convenient audio format that can be shared with students worldwide and in different languages, improving reach and accessibility, all without the need to hire voice actors or record voiceovers manually.

Furthermore, Murf provides a vast pool of voices for any type of explainer video. Be it a deep middle-aged voice for an animation video on the Solar system or a playful young adult voice for a DIY or craft video.

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Murf provides an ideal solution for creating captivating advertisements and product demos. With its versatile voice options and customizable speech styles, Murf simplifies ad creation and helps create videos that cut through the clutter.

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For authors, Murf simplifies the process of turning their scripts into engaging audio experiences. With multiple AI-generated voices across languages, accents, tones, and voice styles, Murf can narrate audiobooks in an engaging manner, making them more accessible to a broader audience.

Moreover, podcasters can rely on Murf to generate voiceovers for their podcasts, delivering professional-quality audio content instead of recording their own voice and spending hours editing it.

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With the growing popularity of audio advertising on platforms like Spotify, Murf offers a powerful solution for creating impactful Spotify ads campaigns. Murf's rich features, like pitch, pronunciation, and emphasis, make it a compelling choice for creating Spotify ads in minutes. The ability to add music and background score to your ads without the need for a third-party tool takes things a step further.

YouTube Videos and Presentations

Murf is an excellent asset for content creators on YouTube as well as professionals delivering presentations. YouTubers, for example, can convert their scripts into engaging voice overs that captivate viewers by selecting a voice with different accents, such as British, Australian, or American, that is suitable for the topic and content of their video.

Whether educational content, tutorial videos, or corporate presentations, Murf's high quality voices can greatly improve a bland presentation, making the content more engaging and impactful with lifelike AI voices.

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For businesses seeking to optimize their customer service experience, Murf serves as an ideal solution for IVR voice systems. Murf's TTS enables companies to generate natural-sounding voice prompts and greetings for their IVR systems, creating seamless and personalized customer interactions. The automated, multilingual functionality helps businesses communicate with clarity to their customers worldwide.

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Murf goes beyond serving as a realistic voice generator to offer a complete voice solution that enables users to not only adjust the pitch, punctuation, emphasis, and other elements to make the AI generated voice sound as compelling as possible but also add media like your video, audio, and image files with your generated voice.

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Using Murf's 'Pitch' feature, you can control the tone in which your message is delivered. Increase or decrease the pitch of the AI voice to convey the information in the way you want to.

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The AI voice generator's 'Emphasis' facet, on the other hand, enables you to stress specific words and add that extra force to grab the listener's attention.

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You can also include pauses using Murf's 'Pause' feature to make your narration more gripping and effective.

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With Murf's speed feature, you can increase or decrease the rate at which your message is being delivered.

In addition, Murf enables one to include background music to your video or image and sync them with a precisely timed voice over. Murf has a library of royalty music that you can choose from or import audio files of your own. Furthermore, the text to speech platform lets you adjust the ratio of voice to music.

Why Choose Murf?

What makes Murf stand out among other ai text to speech tools is the fact that as an online voice generator, it lets you create quality outputs in a jiffy. From enterprises to small-medium businesses to individual content creators, everybody can generate realistic-sounding voice overs across different ages, languages, and accents using Murf.

Its easy-to-use interface, sleek design, and high-end features make it a must-have tool for someone that wants to create great voiceovers in just minutes. Looking for a high-quality, cost-effective solution for creating voiceover narrations? Murf natural sounding text to speech is your answer.

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AI Voice Generator: Versatile Text to Speech Software | Murf AI

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AI Voice Generator in 20 languages. 120+ realistic text to speech voices to create the perfect AI voiceover. Go instantly from text to voice with ease.

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Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

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Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

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Teams is a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration workspace. It brings together instant messaging, threaded conversations, file sharing, voice and video conversations, and more

How to use Teams?
VIU provides support. Go to https://ithelp.viu.ca/TDClient/169/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=1655

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ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI

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Contributors: John Schulman, Barret Zoph, Christina Kim, Jacob Hilton, Jacob Menick, Jiayi Weng, Juan Felipe Ceron Uribe, Liam Fedus, Luke Metz, Michael Pokorny, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Shengjia Zhao, Arun Vijayvergiya, Eric Sigler, Adam Perelman, Chelsea Voss, Mike Heaton, Joel Parish, Dave Cummings, Rajeev Nayak, Valerie Balcom, David Schnurr, Tomer Kaftan, Chris Hallacy, Nicholas Turley, Noah Deutsch, Vik Goel, Jonathan Ward, Aris Konstantinidis, Wojciech Zaremba, Long Ouyang, Leonard Bogdonoff, Joshua Gross, David Medina, Sarah Yoo, Teddy Lee, Ryan Lowe, Dan Mossing, Joost Huizinga, Roger Jiang, Carroll Wainwright, Diogo Almeida, Steph Lin, Marvin Zhang, Kai Xiao, Katarina Slama, Steven Bills, Alex Gray, Jan Leike, Jakub Pachocki, Phil Tillet, Shantanu Jain, Greg Brockman, Nick Ryder, Alex Paino, Qiming Yuan, Clemens Winter, Ben Wang, Mo Bavarian, Igor Babuschkin, Szymon Sidor, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Mikhail Pavlov, Matthias Plappert, Nik Tezak, Heewoo Jun, William Zhuk, Vitchyr Pong, Lukasz Kaiser, Jerry Tworek, Andrew Carr, Lilian Weng, Sandhini Agarwal, Karl Cobbe, Vineet Kosaraju, Alethea Power, Stanislas Polu, Jesse Han, Raul Puri, Shawn Jain, Benjamin Chess, Christian Gibson, Oleg Boiko, Emy Parparita, Amin Tootoonchian, Kyle Kosic, Christopher Hesse

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We've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

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* download a free version
- great app to read on the go

Feedly.com

Track insights across the web without having to read everything

You tell what’s important to you and Feedly AI flags the important insights from everywhere, including news sites, blogs, Twitter, and newsletters

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Visual Thinkery helps people articulate their thoughts, ideas, and messages to create visual thinkery (yes, we did make that word up…)

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In the initial phases of working with a client, our aim is to gather 10 ideas from a facilitated conversation involving between one and four people. Like any conversation, the nature of it changes depending on how many people are involved. (We've also used this process with as many as ten.) Video conferencing is perfect for this, as it allows the recording of the conversation. Hidden within the dialogue are a bunch of clues in the form of metaphors used, humorous elements, and of course pictures which then be gathered and harvested for insights that could work visually. However, when the ideas have been brought to life in sketch form, it's sometimes hard to see which are the strongest.

Distilling the ideas

One way to get an indication of the strength of an idea is to play it back to those who were part of the original conversation. Since all the sketches are rooted in that conversation, there's a recognition process, but we're also looking for sketches with ideas that really resonate.

Often the ideas themselves overlap, or would benefit from being mashed together with another idea.

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Create Narrated Videos Quickly from Your Home or Office

Voice is the soul of a video. It has the potential to turn even the dullest videos into engaging ones. With Murf studio, you can amplify the impact of your videos by adding a voiceover seamlessly. It has never been this easy!

The ultimate question that is going to answer if your video will be able to grasp the audience's attention is whether your video is 'good' or 'amazing.' 'Amazing' videos stay longer with the audience. They have a personal appeal. A personal connection. And what's better than your own voice to do that? But if you are not confident enough, you can choose from hundreds of voices available at Murf to make a voiceover for your video. You can also insert pauses at an appropriate time and emphasize the important words and lines for better articulation.

Murf studio has rich voiceover features that can help you experiment with multiple voices and their delivery. You can upload, and edit a voiceover video. And the process of adding voice to a video is fairly simple. You do not have to be a techie to do that. And what's better, you can add the voiceover video online. So you do not have to worry about the files taking up the huge memory of your computer.

What can you do with Murf Voice Over Software?

‍ In today's fast-paced world, a voiceover video or voiceover presentation is as necessary as effective if you want to create an impact with your video. Murf is your key to doing that. With Murf, you can convert your raw, unedited audio into a professional and well-curated voice over video. It opens up Pandora's box of opportunities for you. Not only this, but Murf also lets you generate automated voiceover for video using its AI voice generator. You have to just upload your script and choose from over 120 different natural-sounding voiceovers for video, make adjustments like volume, emphasis, and add pauses. Or, you can also add your own pre-recorded audio. Murf will convert it into an editable text transcript. You can make changes here and render to create a perfect voiceover for videos.

This comes especially handy when you need a voiceover for eLearning videos. The scope of e-Learning has expanded to unprecedented levels. From coding to language courses, millions today use the internet to watch the courses and learn from educational videos. The quality of your eLearning can really make it or break it for a course. The teaching videos need to be clear, concise, and hard-hitting for the student to clearly get the idea of the topic. With Murf, making such a video becomes a cakewalk.

Murf lets you choose the pronunciation of the voiceover according to the target audience. You can also change the language of the audio in the tutorial video for the ease of your students. It also lets you put more focus on important words using the 'Emphasis' feature. Also, it lets you add appropriate pauses in your voiceover. This goes a long way in simplifying the content of the course you are teaching.

Why choose Murf for all Voice Over Video needs?

Murf lets you make voiceover for your videos quickly and easily. Its easy-to-use, intuitive interface saves a lot of time and effort. Everything you need is right there, on the screen.

120+ natural-sounding voice narration for videos

Murf lets you choose from over 120 different kinds of text to speech voices to make a voiceover. Just enter the script and choose the voice you like the most, and you are ready to go.

Language wouldn't be a barrier

Murf also allows you to choose from over 20 languages for your voiceover. Your script will be translated, and a voice narration for videos will be made using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Expand the reach of your videos with Murf.

Slow Down, Pause, Emphasise

Murf lets you slow down (or speed up) the pace of the narration. You can focus on important words using its 'Emphasis' feature. To put more emotion into the voiceover video, use the 'Pause' feature and give your audience some time to sink things in. You can also add some cool music in the background.

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Voice Over Video - 130 Realistic Voice overs online for Videos

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Network Mapping (Online Crowds)
The Social Media Research Foundation is the home of the network analysis tool NodeXL – Network Overview Discovery and Exploration for Excel (2010, 2013 and 2016) – extending the familiar spreadsheet so you can collect, analyze and visualize complex social networks from Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and Flickr.

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NodeXL | Your Social Network Analysis Tool for Social Media

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NodeXL Basic and NodeXL Pro are add-ins for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016) that support social network and content analysis.

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make relationship maps

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"When we were considering various platforms to use, we were won over by the spirit of Kumu's manifesto and their focus on helping social sector leaders make sense of the networks in which they are working for change. Kumu's thoughtful regard for the nuances of mapping, along with their whatever it takes customer service ethic have brought us squarely into their corner!"

Daniel Stid, Director of the Madison Initiative, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

One platform. Endless possibilities.

Whether you are mapping people, systems, or concepts in general, if you are focused on relationships we've got you covered.

Stakeholder mapping

Explore the complex web of loyalties, interests, influence, and alignment of key players around important issues.

Systems mapping

Understand and engage complex systems more effectively using systems maps and causal loop diagrams.

Social network mapping

Capture the structure of personal networks and reveal key players. Visualize the informal networks within your organization and see how work really gets done.

Community asset mapping

Keep track of the evolving relationships among community members and resources.

Concept mapping

Brainstorm complex ideas and relate individual concepts to the bigger picture. Unfold convoluted series of events using Lombardi diagrams.

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The art of mapping is to create a context in which others can think.

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"When we were considering various platforms to use, we were won over by the spirit of Kumu's manifesto and their focus on helping social sector leaders make sense of the networks in which they are working for change. Kumu's thoughtful regard for the nuances of mapping, along with their whatever it takes customer service ethic have brought us squarely into their corner!"

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Make videos, infographics, presentations, posters etc.

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Ethelo is an online group decision-making platform

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Make big decisions better. Ethelo is an online group decision-making platform that enables communities to solve complex problems and build consensus in a transparent way

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Our easy-to-build presentations, interactive Polls, Quizzes, and Word Clouds mean more participation and less stress

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It's a Google Slides add-on that allows you to add interactive questions to presentations.

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Integrations & Partnerships | Pear Deck Learning

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Elevate education with Pear Deck Learning’s multitude of top-notch integrations and partnerships with industry all-stars like Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and many more.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Free Online Appointment Scheduling Software | Calendly

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Calendly is the modern scheduling platform that makes "finding time" a breeze. When connecting is easy, your teams can get more done.

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App for project management, organize, prioritize
and keep information in one place

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Self-managed working groups
digital working board - with lists, with card tasks (can be reordered)

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How to use Trello for collaborative group work

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Samepage facilitates communication, project management, running meetings, online collaboration, and more by combining team chat, video conferencing.

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Basecamp is a project management and collaboration software.

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Besides unlimited projects, you'll get pings for private conversations, reports to summarize the essentials, notification protections so you aren't constantly distracted, a timeline showing you everything that's happening, exceptional customer service, and plenty more to round it out.

Basecamp also helps you consolidate billing, cut costs, and simplify onboarding. When you use Basecamp you don't need separate apps for chat, file sharing, tasks, or basic scheduling. No more bouncing around, losing stuff, wondering where someone put something, paying multiple bills or onboarding people in multiple places. Less isn't more, it's better.

Running a sane, sustainable business is part of our commitment to you. We've written bestselling books about our straightforward approach, and our employee handbook is public for everyone to see.

Email our CEO anytime, as well. He wants to hear from you.

Used by top notch marketers, ad agencies, designers, client services firms, consultants, software developers, freelancers, PR agencies, contractors, schools, non-profits, first responders, and many others. Over 75,000 organizations, across every industry imaginable, in 166 countries.

"I've used Basecamp for a million projects over the last decade and a half. It's beautiful software that has resisted every wrong trend and stayed true to the things that mattered most. Highly recommended."-Tobi Lütke, CEO, Shopify

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What is it?
Channel-based messaging platform.

Workspace Channels

Channels are used to organize conversation threads by topics...I created a channel for each of our RRU courses...

I think all of you have permissions to create other channels if needed...If not let me know...Or feel free to suggest other channels...

Quick 101 about Posting Messages on Slack

Any post to a public channel is viewable by all your classmates...which is a good thing for general questions...

If you want to send a private message to a classmate then use the Direct Messages area (located in the side bar)...You can send a private message to just one classmate or up to 10 other classmates...

The Enter Key

One setting I always change (and this is personal preference) is the behaviour of the "Enter" key...By default the "Enter" key posts a message...This is how a text messaging app works...If you like that behaviour...then your good...If you don't, you can change that behaviour by doing the following:

1. Click your user icon in the top right corner of the app

2. Click on "Advanced"

3. Under the "When writing a message, press [ Enter ] to.." section, select the "Start a new line" option

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Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It's faster, better organized, and more secure than email.

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Research collaboration now involves significant online communication. But sending files back and forth between collaborators creates redundancy of effort, causes unnecessary delays and, many times, leaves people frustrated with the whole idea of collaboration. Luckily, there are many web-based collaborative writing tools aimed at the general public or specifically at academic writers to help. Christof Schöch looks at the different tools out there and presents some helpful tips on finding the right tool for the job. Fig. 1: Requirements and tools for collaborative academic writing The symbols in the above table have the following meaning: ++ fully supported, + well supported, o somewhat supported, - not well supported, - - not supported at all, x supported through extensions. Source: Schöch (2014), Collaborative Academic Writing: Tools and Features (presentation)
The image of the solitary genius formulating deep thoughts in the closed confines of his dimly-lit study has never been very appropriate for research, neither in the sciences nor, most likely, in the humanities. Even in the old times, scholars were connected to each other through their books and other publications, which they would read, cite and comment on. Ultimately, writing has always been a dialogic process of intertwining discourses.
1. The lowest common denominator: Google Drive
However, research projects have become increasingly complex, for example involving experts from a wide range of disciplines, so collaborative writing has become more and more widespread. Increasingly, we are collaboratively writing research proposals or project reports, copy-editing articles in a distributed manner, putting together the minutes of a conference call, managing the tasks and responsibilities of people in a project, or indeed authoring research articles and textbooks. Project members may be working in various institutions scattered around the country or around the globe. Sending Microsoft Word documents back and forth via email between collaborators just doesn't do the trick anymore: It creates redundancy of effort, causes unnecessary delays and, many times, leaves people frustrated with the whole idea of collaboration.
2. The king of real-time collaboration is Etherpad
Therefore, collaborative writing now happens online. And luckily, there are many web-based collaborative writing tools aimed at the general public or specifically at academic writers to help us. However, with so many possible use cases and their requirements, and with so many different tools out there, the real issue actually has become how to find the right tool for each job. Have a quick look at the table below, which is giving an overview of some requirements and tools, and you'll know what I mean.
3. Manage your project using Mediawiki
It is impossible to comment on the entire table in detail. So, what requirements are vital in which situation, and which tool best fulfills them? Let's have a look at some of the most interesting options.
4. Writing text like writing code: Penflip
Google Drive / Docs is a great general-purpose tool, there's no way around this. The text editor provides a number of features academics need, like footnotes and tables. Export formats include docx, odt and pdf, making it easy to take your text and continue working in some other environment. Comments are associated with specific portions of the text and others can weigh in on each comment. There is fine-grained rights management, so you can allow any collaborator to view, comment, or edit the text. So far, so good. But the tool also has its limitations: long documents and/or too many collaborators tend to make the editor much less reactive. Also, version history is limited and doesn't let you inspect the changes between any two versions, for instance. Plus, the tool is not open source and your texts lie in the hands of a data kraken. So, what alternatives are there?
5. When academic features matter most, use FidusWriter
If you want real privacy and your use case involves heavy real-time collaboration, "concurrent editing" for the more technically inclined, then Etherpad is the tool of choice. It is wonderful for collaborative minutes or brainstorming sessions. Indeed, it works well even when a lot of people are changing the same sentence at the very same moment, the text being continually updated for everyone looking at it. Also, authors' contributions are color-coded in the document so that everyone can still see who wrote what. An amazing extra is the option to playback the entire writing process in an accelerated manner, allowing you to watch your text grow and change over time. In addition, this light-weight tool is open source, so that you can install it on your own server and have full control over your data. Alternatively, you can put your trust on one of the many providers of free Etherpad installations. Formatting is very limited, though, so don't expect to be able to include footnotes, formulas or images with your text.

Not documenting a brainstormin session, but rather managing a research project? Then, rather than concurrent editing in a single document, you are likely to need detailed insight into the version history of a whole network of documents. In this case, a Wiki software such as Mediawiki may be the tool of choice. Create a hierarchical structure of pages mirroring your project with its various work packages, tasks, committees and events. Mediawiki is open source; ask your university computing centre to you with an instance, install it on your department's server space, or use one of the free Mediawiki providers. Mediawiki are working on a visual editor, but right now, project members will have to learn the (simple but quite powerful) Mediawiki syntax. Concurrent editing is impossible, but as long as two people are not editing the same paragraph at the same time, you are unlikely to run into issues. Each page has an associated comments page, which however does not allow to make per-segment comments. If your project is large (and wealthy) and you would like to offer more convenience to your project members, then the non-free Confluence wiki may be a good choice: for example, it has a visual editor, which makes it much easier, particularly, to manage tables and exports quite nicely to desktop word processing formats.
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An entirely different model of collaboration is at the heart of Penflip. This tool is a front-end to the famous code repository platform GitHub and provides a text editor which stores all text on GitHub. This means that collaboration follows the model of forking, committing, and merging: Every collaborator on a project can make his or her own copy of the master text and modify it in every way they see fit. When done, they can propose their new version to the owner of the master text, who can selectively merge the two versions to create a new version of the text. Formatting is limited to what the Markdown syntax has to offer, augmented by whatever HTML you would like to add to it. The version history is fully documented and differences between documents can be inspected in a detailed manner.

Are you writing a scholarly article will loads of footnotes, bibliographic references, mathematical formulas and graphs? Then FidusWriter may be the tool of choice. It has an integrated reference manager that ingests BibTex from your personal reference manager (like Zotero, for instance). It lets you enter references and will format them as well as the bibliography or footnotes according to a variety of citation styles. You may add mathematical formulas using a Latex widget. The project is a recent player in the field and you will have to install the software on your own server. However, that gives you full control over your data. Also, FidusWriter are working with the Public Knowledge Foundation to connect the tool with the Open Journal Systems, creating a fully-online workflow for open access journals. This is a solution to watch.

Even this small selection of options can be daunting, with every one tool having it's own user interface, requiring users to learn their way around the formatting options or markup syntax, and in most cases requiring collaborators to sign up for a separate service when switching between tools. In many cases, this means there will be some convincing to do before your team is ready to expand their collaborative writing toolbox and learn to flexibly move around between tools, depending on the needs of the situation at hand. In my personal experience, however, it is definitely worth it!

Christof Schöch is a researcher at the Chair for Literary Computing, University of Würzburg, Germany. In his research and teaching, he combines French literary studies (Age of Enlightenment, contemporary novel) and Digital Humanities (quantitative text analysis, digital scholarly publishing). He writes about his research on a blog called " The Dragonfly's Gaze". You can find out more about him on his personal website.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video-based tool allows for discussion across digital devices

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Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Writing Assistant

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Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Writing Assistant