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Picture Manager: Basics
Microsoft Office has a built-in program called Picture Manager which helps with managing, editing and sharing pictures.  You can edit more than one picture at a time, and use its automatic editing features.

Poster Production: Guide for Students
The Student Computing Services (SCS) Lab in Cook 35 houses a large-format color printer that students may use to print posters in fulfillment of class assignments or for research expositions and conference poster sessions. This guide describes the procedure by which students may use this service and offers advice toward making their posters as engaging and effective as possible.

Smart Classroom: Guide
This document is a usage guide to help people use the equipment and services available in a Smart Classroom on campus.

CLA Classroom Technology: Orientation Video
This video will show you how to use the technologies found in smart classrooms in the new College of Liberal Arts building. It is designed specifically for faculty who will be teaching in the new building. You will learn how to use the: Crestron, WolfVision document camera, DVD/Blu-ray, SmartPodium with the stylus and much more.

Smart Classroom: Sympodium ID350 Overview
The Sympodium interactive pen display allows you to write over any presentation in digital ink, highlight concepts and take notes. The Sympodium is connected to a computer and a projector, so you can bring up a software package, create notes and your audience will see the writing projected onto a large screen.

Smart Classroom: SMART Notebook 10 Basics
The SMART Notebook allows you to make notes, create graphics, text, tables, lines, shapes and more. If you are use to using a white board as a teaching mechanism, the SMART Notebook may be used in its place.

Using the Crestron in the CLA Smart Classroom
The Crestron provides complete control of the electronic and mechanical devices in the CLA classroom. This short movie will step you through how to use the Crestron.

Using the Elmo Document Camera
The Elmo document camera is used to project images of documents, books, transparencies, etc. on the screen. The document camera takes the place of an overhead projector. This short movie will show you how to set up and use the Elmo document camera.

Crestron TPS 6L
The Crestron is a touch screen panel which provides complete control of the electronic and mechanical devices in the classroom through clearly marked buttons and a touch screen display. This self-help document will guide you through how to use the Crestron.

Scanning: Converting Hard Copies of Documents to an Electronic Format
You may have a hard copy of a document that you wish to open in an electronic format such as Microsoft Word. This self-help document takes you through the steps to scan a document as text and then display that document in Word.

Preparing Web Images with WebResizer.com
There are dozens of applications well suited to the image processing tasks associated with Web publishing. But when it comes to preparing images for use on the Web, most of us need to do three, and only three, things: Resize, Crop and Optimize. This document describes WebResizer.com, a web-based application particularly well suited to these tasks.

Windows Movie Maker 6: Adding Narration, Audio and Music
This self-help document will show you how to record and add narration to your movie directly from Movie Maker. It will also show you how to import narration recorded from other sources or import music.

SMART Podium ID422w: Overview
The 22” SMART Podium interactive pen display allows you to write over any presentation in digital ink, highlight concepts and take notes. The SMART Podium is connected to a computer and a projector, so you can bring up a software package, create notes and your audience will see the writing projected onto a large screen.

SMART Podium ID422w: Using the Interactive Pen Display with Word 2007
The SMART Podium interactive pen display is a presentation tool used to connect your computer with a projector. This document will walk you through using the Interactive Pen Display with Word 2007 to create annotations directly on a document.

Access the FDS and Create and Express Delivery
Towson University’s File Delivery Service is an outlet for TU users to securely share files too large to send as attachments through conventional delivery services. This self-help document will step you through how to access the FDS and how to create an express delivery. 

Create a FDS Account to Access a Delivery
This self-help document will instruct users outside the Towson network on how to create a recipient account in FDS.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
This self-help document answers frequently asked questions regarding the File Delivery Service.