Google Presentation: How to Share and Publish Your Presentation

Google Presentation allows you to share and publish your slide
presentation files. This is a great tool for online collaboration,
learning, and presenting. Google Presentation is totally free; all you
need is just a Google Account to login.

In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to share you presentation
with others and how to publish your presentation online so that anyone
can have the opportunity to get access to your presentation.

1.      Let’s first go to www.google.com <http://www.google.com/>; you
can see a tool bar above the big “Google” logo; click on “more” and go
to “Documents”

2.      You will need to use your Google Account to sign in. Again, if
you don’t have a Google Account, simply click on “Get Started”; follow
the instructions and you will get a new Google Account.

3.      To share your presentation file, you will need to own the
presentation file (be the creator).

4.      First, select and enter the presentation file you wish to share;
once you are in the editing mode, click on the “Share” tab, which is
near the “Save” button.

5.      Now you are in the share tab, you can choose to invite others as
collaborators or as viewers. Collaborators can edit your presentation
file while viewers can not.

6.      Now you will need to enter the email address of the people you
want to share with; when you are done, click the “Invite” button.

7.      A window will pop up to let you composite an email reminder to
those you want to share your file with; after you are done, click on
“Send” button.

8.      You will notice that the numbers of Collaborators and Viewers
has changed on the right.

9.      Now let’s see how to publish your presentation file. Click on
the “Publish” tab, which is next to the “Share” tab.

10.  Once you are in the Publish tab, click on “Publish document” button.
11.  Google will give you a URL address for your presentation file; you
can send this link to anyone you wish to share with. If you don’t want
to share your presentation file anymore, just click on “Stop publishing”
button.

This concludes our tutorial on how to share your Google Presentation
with others and how to publish your presentation files.

-Ze Peng

How to Create a Chart from Data in Excel

MS Excel is software that allows you create spreadsheets. Did you know that with Excel, you can use that data in the spreadsheet to create charts and graphs? You can use charts and graphs as another way to represent and display your data. Follow the brief tutorial below to see how you can create graphs and charts using MS Excel.

1. Create a worksheet that includes the data you want to put in a chart (it’s best to use numerical data like numbers, dates, years vs. things like places, people, products, etc.- you want to show the progress of something over time, for example).

2. Select the cells in the worksheet which you want to use for the
chart.

3. On the Insert tab, Click Charts.

4. Choose a chart type (column, bar, lie, pie, scatter, area and so on)

5. Choose a chart subtype (clustered, stacked, 100% stacked and so on. You also can choose custom type to customize your chart).

 

6. Click Next button..

7. Click Series (you can add or remove series, edit series’ name and value, edit category (x) axis label).

8. Click Next button.

9. Click Title (you can edit chart title, category (x) axis and value (y) axis).

10. Click Axes (you can edit primary axis)

11. Click Gridlines (you can edit gridlines)

12. Click Next button.

13. Choose place of chart, as new sheet or as object in.

14. Click Finish button.

Now you will have a chart that represents your data.

 

Robin Lu

Free Storage Spaces on the Web: Brief Review of MediaMax and Multiply

Today, I started to search for places that offered a decent amount of free space where I could upload I wide range of file types. There are many free ones out there, all with different storage sizes and interfaces. My student workers usually use FileDen or Archive.org. These are great tools, but I was looking for more free space. The two storage and hosting sites that I really liked where MediaMax and Multiply. The two are different, but are very useful depending on how you want to store and share you media.

Generating an RSS Feed from Your WordPress Hosted Blog: Brief Tutorial

So you created a blog at WordPress and you are adding great content that you want others to read. How do you advertise your blog in a way that is easy for your readers to subscribe or check the latest posting of your blog? Why you can generate an RSS feed for your blog and distribute via email, social networking sites, web sites, online forums, etc. That sounds great, you say, but how do I generate an RSS feed for my WordPress hosted blog? Follow the tutorial below.

Generating an RSS Feed from your WordPress Hosted Blog

1. Type in the site where your WordPress hosted blog resides (http://you.wordpress.com ) in a web browser.

2.  At the end of your web address, type in the word feed (http://you.wordpress.com/feed)

3. In an RSS feed reader (Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 have RSS feed readers built into them) you can subscribe to this url.

4. All your postings from your blog will appear, with the latest post first.

*Note: If you would like to generate separate RSS feeds for each category, you can add a side bar widget for categories, and click on the category. At the end of the category url in your address bar, add the word feed (http://you.wordpress.com/category/podcasts/feed). This RSS feed will now only show the posts filed under that category, not your whole blog. This is a good way to organize podcasts and vodcasts on your WordPress hosted blog. Enjoy!

-Angel Brady