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Cutting Edge Tech Essentials for Legal Professionals 

by Karl M. Kindt III

This course is designed to build your essential computer technology skills as a legal professional.  This website will remain up for you to use as a resource after the sessions.  You may email me comments or questions at: kkindt@earthlink.net

Session 1

1. Projectors and Elmos - connecting a laptop to a projector

   1. VGA/HDMI and adapters

   2. Adapters for tablets and phones to connect to projectors

   3.  Elmos, VGA/Hdmi, hard drives, USB sticks, Apricot hard drive recovery of data, smart phone scanning to pdf files, video adapters for tablets and laptops

2. audio editing/capture using Audacity and how to label certain sections of an audio file and export the individual clips then bring these into Powerpoint

3. Audacity Download site

4. hard drives - capacity and speeds

5. Apricot hard drive recovery of data - when a computer will not boot up but you need data off the hard drive

6. Smart phone scanning to pdf files - TurboScan

7. Presentations tools and when to use which tool

• 1. Powerpoint time lines

  2.  TrialDirector

Session 2 

1. What is a gigapan? and how and why to create these - see http://www.gigapan.com 

   1. Microsoft ICE

   2. Zooming into detail

   3. Examples

   4. http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/190904

   5. http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/142283

   6. http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/68024

2. Hyperlinks/bookmarks in Word and how to use these to create clickable table of contents

3. Quick Parts in Word

4. Safely removing a USB thumb drive or USB external hard drive

Session 3

1. Heat issues regarding CPU and how to avoid slowing down a computer

2. How to connect an iphone to a microscope and take photos and a link to see what this looks like: CLICK HERE but also an adapter to snap on to lens of a smart phone: CLICK HERE

3. How to zip files using winzip

4. Word Macros

5. Pacer and How to use it: free training click here  Video tutorial click here

6. What is Pacer? Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information online from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator.

7. Using OneNote for collecting and organizing case information and research

Session 4 

1. How to Enhance Images using Image software

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtHkxpIfM14

3. Superimpose Picture on different background click here

4. Rules regarding what you can do to enhance a digital image: http://www.thirdamendment.com/photos.html

5. How to minimize metadata in Excel spreadsheets: 

Session 5 

1. How to quickly get a list of all files on a hard drive, usb stick or cd into a Word document.

2. Gom Player and how to Extract a sequence of images and import into Powerpoint

3. How to get still images out of a video into Powerpoint or Word using insert snips

4. How to Clone your hard drive so you can upgrade to a larger faster drive or just so when your hard drive breaks you have a good replacement up to date with all your applications installed and all your data.

Session 6

1. Creating Prezi Presentations with a Mac or PC in the cloud

2. First Tutorial Video from Prezi: https://youtu.be/yWY3MXCBI9g

https://prezi.com/

3. The Advantage of this course - this website continues on after the course is over and will be updated for you as any of the covered technology and software changes so come back often and you can email the instructor if you have questions about topics covered: kkindt@earthlink.net