TurnItIn AI Checker (Do Robots Check for Electric Sheep?)

As of 3 April, many in the EdTech sphere read about the kerfluffle TurnItIn made with the forced opt-in and rollout of their AI features in their plagiarism detection. In the 48hrs that followed, the EU and UK forced them to walk it back (of sorts) in their regions, and left US higher ed institutions…

Adobe Podcast (beta)

The creative space has been heating up in recent weeks again with Adobe “FireFly” project and Microsoft “Designer”. Putting aside the craze that was algorithmic generative images that were tied to blockchains, eg NFTs, DALLE and DALLE2 arguably started the renaissance that is currently generative-AI-based image creation. Services like MidJourney then taking the fidelity of…

Take your AI to work day

The news as been focusing a lot on the ramifications of AI and student’s use of it in coursework and papers. What what about the other side of this debate? As in, the educator. What if there was a completely fictitious digital faculty who was leading lectures? DIY AI For a demo and thought exercise,…

AI-enomics of EdTech

Current Update For | 26 October The controversies over AI and Music A good breakdown over Copyright and AI October 9 Via Grammarly with their new GO AI service Writing Guidance at Every StepFrom brainstorming, paraphrasing ideas, revising long drafts and citing sources, a quality research paper is about more than just grammar. Luckily, Grammarly…

Advancing Video Lecture Instructional Design

Now available for WWU faculty Advancing Video Instructional Design! Lectures are here to stay, but do you feel like your videos are dry? Ever wondered how YouTube content creators make such polished looking videos? Join AJ in this session to explore some of the industry tips and techniques on how to level up your videos for your classes,…

Insta Step-by-Step Guides

For years, I and many of my fellow edtech colleagues used Clarify to create step-by-step guides to help teach clients how to navigate the rough seas that can be a new app. Especially with the pandemic, video has accelerated the use of video tutorials as training, but for some the simple (or dare I say…

WordPress 5.9 and Full Site Editing (FSE) coming soon

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…

Meta-nomics and EdTech

An ongoing updated post as new resources, and rabbit holes, come up current update; 5 January 2023 SIXTH TONE | Metaverse 101: What Will the Future of Chinese Education Look Like? https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011978/metaverse-101-what-will-the-future-of-chinese-education-look-like%3F?source=channel_home Merging the Experience of Metaverse with Education https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/merging-the-experience-of-metaverse-with-education/ar-AA15JWxH 27 December 2021 Always on VR If “Zoom fatigue” became a thing during the pandemic…

Crypto-nomics and EdTech

An ongoing updated post as new resources, and rabbit holes, come up current update; 26 January 2022 17min video “Blockchain Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty” via WIRED 12 January 2021 Associated Press Launching NFT Marketplace for Its Photographs The NFTs are reported to be minted on the Polygon blockchain. “Each NFT…

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…

5 Years of Podcasting: The Bellingham Podcast

First of all, Thank You. If you are reading this, wherever you are around the globe, you are probably one of our many listeners or supporters over the years of the Bellingham Podcast. As the story goes, it was a late winter day in 2016 when Chris Powell and I were deep in our normal…

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…

Adobe: ‘Free Distance Learning Resources & Project Ideas’

Need a ‘spark’ of creativity for course projects? Adobe has put together a collection of project ideas, and the resources to use them in the digital classroom, on the Adobe Education Exchange (EdEx). These lessons range in using just the simplest, and freely available, Adobe Spark or Rush apps through the licensed Creative Cloud suite…