How to use this guide
Locate the page denoted by your FYRS professor's name. The home page provides resources for all FYRS sections while course pages provide featured resources that relate to your specific course content.
There are resources below to help with online presentations. To access more online resources, visit our general student resources page for remote learning.
Library catalog: find books, articles, videos
Scholarly article search
Need more options? Library Databases A-Z
Need a specific journal? Journals A-Z
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)--Transy Library
If we do not have an item, we may be able to borrow it from another library.
News Resources
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NYTimes.com To get full access to the nytimes.com website create an account at the site linked above using your Transy.edu email address. More info on signing up is available at http://youtu.be/NROcngiF_uY. The Archive is available at New York Times Archive through Proquest.
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AllSides
Multi-partisan news site dedicated to evaluating news via crowd-sourced media bias ratings. See topics and stories reported across a variety of news outlets.
Presentations and Notes
Here are some resources for using Slides and PowerPoint that may help you as start preparing for your FYRS presentations this semester:
Google Slides
You may want to use Google Slides for your presentations during the rest of this semester. To do so, it can be helpful to include notes in your slides so that your classmates and your professor know what it is you wanted to say during the presentation, without putting everything onto slides.
Add and share notes on Google Slides (video tutorial) OR Add and share notes on Google Slides (written instructions)
In Google Slides you also have the option to record and add audio files to individual slides. This is an option which allows you to record yourself speaking in your slide show. See the tutorials below for help.
Adding audio files to Google Slides (video tutorial) OR Adding audio files to Google Slides (written instructions)
PowerPoint
As with Google Slides, you can add notes to individual slides. If you need to do presentations during online instruction, this feature may helpful to provide what you would have said in an face to face presentation.
Adding notes to PowerPoint Presentations (video tutorial)
In PowerPoint, you have the option to add audio to your presentation by recording yourself as you move through your presentation. To use this option, you must have PowerPoint installed on your computer, and be sure that everyone who needs to see the presentation has access to PowerPoint.
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Adding audio to PowerPointThis is a PowerPoint slideshow that has audio recorded over every slide. You can download the file, and watch the slideshow by clicking the Slide Show tab and "From Beginning" in the top left. The audio will play automatically. You can also scroll through the slides to go at your own pace.
Google Drive Resources
Accessing your Google applications (via Transy)
Whether you need Docs to type a paper, Slides, to do a presentation, Sheets to organize your data, or Meet to join a class discussion, you can access all your Google resources in one convenient location with your Transy credentials.
Accessing Google Apps for class and work (video tutorial) OR Accessing Google Apps for class and work (written instructions)
Using your Google Drive
The need to share your files on Google is greater now than when you were able to hand in assignments in person.
Using the "Share" function (video tutorial) OR Using the "Share" function (written instructions)