The observations in an Annotate data set use a set of predefined Annotate variables. The values of the variables in the observation determine what is done and how it is done. To create these ...

If you need to help someone use an app on an iPhone or iPad, it is sometimes better to show where or how to perform an action than to verbally explain it. AppleInsider explains how to take advantage ...

Most faculty members have a go-to activity that can be deployed at a moment’s notice in the classroom. It might be a quick, five-minute writing task or a more-ambitious, small-group exercise. When ...

Google’s push to optimize its first-party apps on tablets continues with Drive for Android adding the ability to annotate PDFs using a stylus or finger. You will be able to “use your finger or a ...

I've been using a Chromebook as my sole productivity machine for about a month now after introducing Chrome OS to my workflow over a year ago. While I've been surprisingly happy with the experience, ...

Zoom is a video conferencing tool that you can use to hold virtual meetings and class sessions with your students. In a Zoom meeting, you can share your screen to show students presentations, files, ...

When holding a video conference using Webex, you can also share content with the other participants in your conference. This means you can show them something on your computer screen, show them a file ...

Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books. After my first few posts here ...

Last week The Washington Post announced a new system, called “From the Source,” that will let sources annotate stories they appear in after the stories are published. Readers will see the annotations ...

Overlay behavior is device-dependent. Most terminals, cameras, and some printers demonstrate overlay behavior because the process of drawing updates pixels as each graphics element is drawn. Plotters ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...