Mark Heckel's blog

Web 2.0: Twitter in the Classroom

Mark Greenfield, a guru of social networking from the University of Buffalo, tweeted about a post at insidehighered.com, and I found

Blogs at Penn State: Customizing the Top Navigation bar

When using the professional website, you can add the pages that you create to the top navigation bar on the front of the blog.

Customizing Adobe Presenter Files

There may be times when you want to replace the Adobe logo with your own departmental logo, or the Penn State logo, and to have that logo link to somewhere else other than Adobe.

PowerPoint: Embedding an iTunes File

I had a request the other day from a person who wanted to embed an iTunes file (MP3) into a PowerPoint slide on a Macintosh.

Blogs: Creating a Custom Widget for Links you Like

An interesting question came up the other day. What if I wanted to create some links to websites outside my blog, and place them in a widget?

Wikispaces: Version 3.0 Now Running

Version 3.0 of Penn State's wikispaces wiki software has been installed. This should provide for greater stability in the platform, with same or increased functionality.

Excel: AND and OR

Most folks don't know or don't understand the use of Boolean operators in Excel. In reality, they are very easy to use and understand.

Excel: Working with a macro

I got a call the other day from someone who wanted to find a way to look at a value in one column, have it place a value in another column, and do then use that value to do a computation.

Excel: Using wildcards in formulas/functions

The other day, someone asked me about reducing the size of a formula that had grown quite long.

Wikispaces: Permissions and Structure are the Keys

In a recent training on demand, I was working through a rather complex structure and permissions scheme with the group.

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