Author: AJ
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Affinity Publisher in Canvas Commons
The Student Technology Center (STC) is supporting all the same application workshops through their all new self-enroll Canvas course; STC Online Workshops. There are now over 50 modules supporting a wide range of tech literacies, application support, and technology skills available across a growing collection of 170 training videos created by STC staff. This course…
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Affinity Publisher (Alt-AV InDesign)
Building off my posts from the initial Covid-19 Tactics posts, and the Technologist’s for Students Online this goes right at the heart of a topic near and dear to my creator heart; Adobe. As many students have expressed to me over the years, having to pay for Adobe each month while also paying for college…
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Zulu Time Podcast
UK based podcasters, and a part of the #watchfam, Dan (@timely_moments) and Darren (@zulualphastraps) invited me up onto their show to talk “Watches, Podcasts and All Things PNW.” From talking about the stories behind the watches I’ve made, how I started in Seiko modding, to getting started into podcasting; we cover a lot of ground…
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Hack your online reading; with FireFox Narrate
If your eyes have been feeling strained, reading all those webpages for research or course reading you are probably not alone. In a podcast and streaming content era that we are in, wouldn’t be nice to audio-book-afy your webpage reading. In Firefox there is a tool that might help you do just that. If a…
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Ruling Time as a Knight
In any field, the skill to able to visually present data in a way that allows readers to engage with the data is a paramount skill. In the field of journalism especially, as timelines and the chronology of facts are just as much part of the story of record, as the reported story is. Northwestern…
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Using a secondary mic? Here’s how to auto sync it to your video.
Four major video editor apps, four different names for the same function: Automatic audio sync for secondary audio to a video. If you caught my video on studio setup in ‘AV tactics for the at-home educator,’ you may have caught that I use two different mics depending on what I’m recording. When you use a…
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STC Live Chat Support
If you are faculty or student at WWU and find yourself in a technology quandary, or are just missing being able to stop by the Student Technology Center to ask questions… Starting today you can now connect live with the STC staff during their business hours by signing into their Live Support Chat portal directly…
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Podcasting with Zoom (Canvas Commons)
The Student Technology Center (STC) is supporting all the same application workshops through their all new self-enroll Canvas course; STC Online Workshops. There are now over 50 modules supporting a wide range of tech literacies, application support, and technology skills available across a growing collection of 170 training videos created by STC staff. This course…
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Zoom as a Podcaster
Looping back to the original Covid-19 Tactics post, this series breaks down the several steps and tips to setting up Zoom as an audio recording source; and then how to bring those audio files into an audio editor to produce a podcast for your class. This technique is used in podcasting often, even before Covid-19,…