Category: Imaging
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Enhancing Course Delivery with Panopto: A Guide for Faculty (AMA with WWU’s Panopto Admin)
In this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, AJ Barse, Instructional Designer and Panopto administrator at Western Washington University, provides a quick guide on integrating Panopto into your Canvas course based on the five common questions coming into Learning Systems. Ideal for new faculty or as a refresher for returning instructors, this video covers key steps…
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Affinity continues to get closer to parity functionality with Adobe CC
Throughout the pandemic, one of the most asked question I get is “what is a more affordable tool to Adobe?” This comes from students looking to use one of the main quartet of apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere) perhaps for a single quarter or assignment. Or even faculty thinking about adapting their curriculum to…
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iPhone as your webcam
Between Tuning up your AV Tactics, and Pro Cam’ing your next web conference, there is a growing third avenue to bring in better, pro, optics as your webcam to elevate your next video call. iPhone don’t have a native way to just plug-and-play to become a webcam, but there are two growing avenues. iOS as…
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Interactivity; in an inactive Covid era
For nearly five year, I’ve highlighted here several developing online services that can help bring interactivity onscreen to media. Interactivity such as using 3d models that allow users to interact and learn through the use of pins or way-points to designing learning into of a tour. Even spreading out this idea to developing content immersive…
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Virtual Studio Tour; video
Full interview/show for the the Virtual Studio Tour with WWU Alumni Association
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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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Exploring the once uncharted
Two of my biggest academic fascinations has to be horology and cartography. As a technologist, without either of these technologies the world we live in would be a very different place. To look back at somthing that is 200 years old, created by hand, that is a visual record of a place on our Earth…
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Walk on the wild-side of history
I recently stumbled upon a resource, while researching a certain PNW bird, that could help student get in touch with their historical wild-side. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is dedicated to biodiversity literature and historical archives and is cited as one if not the world’s largest open access digital library on the topic. Their mission…
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First Ever “Iconic” Black Hole ‘photo’ | Event Horizon Telescope – Harvard
“A global team of astronomers, led by Harvard scientists, have captured an image of a black hole for the first time. The result of a massive, years-long effort by dozens of researchers, the Event Horizon Telescope focused on a pair of supermassive black holes – the one at the center of the Milky Way galaxy,…