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Authoring Tips: Embedding powerpoint presentations

You just spent a week pulling your slides together and gave the presentation of your life. Now you are feeling bounteous and want to share your presentation with the world. Good for you.The CNXML markup that Connexions uses does not natively support po… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Embedding powerpoint presentations

You just spent a week pulling your slides together and gave the presentation of your life. Now you are feeling bounteous and want to share your presentation with the world. Good for you.The CNXML markup that Connexions uses does not natively support po… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: How to size images

Yikes! I missed last week’s posting while we prepared for the Plone Symposium this week.Sizing imagesThe most-uploaded media type we see are images of some sort. It’s a good idea to always create and save your images in the size you want them to appear… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: How to size images

Yikes! I missed last week’s posting while we prepared for the Plone Symposium this week.Sizing imagesThe most-uploaded media type we see are images of some sort. It’s a good idea to always create and save your images in the size you want them to appear… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Images and other multimedia

It is possible to create a module that is nothing but text. However, we find that many people have images, examples, documents, and more that they want to have interspersed in the text; after all: “a picture is worth 1,000 words”. And so I’ll blog (in … Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Images and other multimedia

It is possible to create a module that is nothing but text. However, we find that many people have images, examples, documents, and more that they want to have interspersed in the text; after all: “a picture is worth 1,000 words”. And so I’ll blog (in … Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Glossaries for each module

We first learned about <term> tags in last week’s post, which for some reason posted under the wrong date. At the blog.cnx.org homepage you need to scroll down a bit to see it.Each module can contain a glossary at the end of the module, containin… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Glossaries for each module

We first learned about <term> tags in last week’s post, which for some reason posted under the wrong date. At the blog.cnx.org homepage you need to scroll down a bit to see it.Each module can contain a glossary at the end of the module, containin… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Linking on Connexions

What’s an educational resource without copious amounts of cross-referencing? Not much, I say! Luckily, we’ve got you covered.The <link> tag can create hyperlinks to webpages, files uploaded to your module, other modules or collections, specific p… Continue reading

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Authoring Tips: Linking on Connexions

What’s an educational resource without copious amounts of cross-referencing? Not much, I say! Luckily, we’ve got you covered.The <link> tag can create hyperlinks to webpages, files uploaded to your module, other modules or collections, specific p… Continue reading

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