With the new year, WordPress is gearing up to release the 2022 update to the opensource platform with a new feature highlight; Full Site Editing or FSE Slated now for release on 25 January, this update with evolve the Gutenberg interface and tools site wide. “Due to delays with one of the the most anticipated…
Category: STC Workshop
‘Be A Maker’ with the STC
As seen or read in Western Today, “Need a creative outlet? Like to come up with cool ideas and try to make them a reality? Well the folks at the Student Technology Center and the Engineering Department want to help you get your build on. 3-D printers, laser cutters, and access to all manner of tools, software and materials…
Microsoft Bookings and using it in a Student Center
OK. So, you have discovered Microsoft Bookings. You might even be using it already to schedule your online or face-to-face office hours. But now, with everything being hyflex; let’s say you are also a manager of something like a student center or service desk. You might be to the point where you are asking yourself…
Setting up WordPress Invite Code
More and more, WordPress for WWU is being used in courses as a way of encouraging students to create web based content- which is awesome. But for faculty with large classes, or now classes with a mix of students on and off campus, it still can be a grind for a faculty to setup a…
Full Site Screen Capture in iOS 14
This helpful trick will allow you on your iOS device *running 14.4 or higher in most cases* the ability to capture and PDF entire websites. As a bonus, you can use this feature in tandem with the “Reader” mode in iOS Safari to capture websites cleanly, which is helpful if you are just needing the…
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…
PowerPoint as a Virtual Background in Zoom
More and more apps are trying to embrace what I call the ‘hometown meteorologist effect.’ You know the one, where someone in a news studio walks in front of a green-screen to forecast the weather on a digital background they see just off camera. Well Zoom now has incorporated their idea for it in their…
Tune Up; update to AV Tactics
As the Covid 19 pandemic progresses, I’ve been tweaking more and more of my home instructional ‘studio’ setup; and with it recommendations for others to try out. The original “AV Tactics” series I produced at the beginning of the Covid crisis was made in the moment where really we had to use what we had…
My Class for managing student blogs on wp.wwu.edu
“My Class” allows you to connect student blogs to your class blog where you can control the student blog privacy, comment moderation and post moderation on all student blogs with just one click. via https://help.edublogs.org/set-up-my-class/ My Class is ideal for teachers with students who either have their own student blog or publish posts on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…