Author: AJ
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Adobe Education Leader
If Covid-19 has shown us anything, it is that we as a society can still connect and create from wherever we are in the world. The ability to collaborate, communicate, and create and use a wide range of tools to ‘make’ things is a fundamental digital literacy that all educators have to be able to…
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Screen Recording & Adding Green Screen Superpowers
Freshly published to both Canvas Commons as its own module and in the STC Online Workshop course, “Screen Recording with Green Screen Superpowers” “[Canvas] Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with…
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Green Screen yourself onto your content
Since writing the Covid-19 Tactics post, and the @Home Studio and the New Normal video, I get asked a lot about green screening. Setting one up is as easy as hanging it up on a curtain rod, but finding or using the actual software to record can feel overwhelming. In these two videos I take…
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STC Online Workshops: Canvas Course
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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Must…Have…More…Space!
As midterms roll around, we all have been creating more content no than perhaps any other quarter in history. You and your computer’s hard drive now might be finding yourselves in a tight spot; literally. Making videos, screen shots, docs, etc. as an educator or as a student take up a massive amount of hard…
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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…