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…
Category: Covid-19 Tactics
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Discord & EdTech
A quick read from the folks at Discord on uses of the Discord platform, and how it could be used in edtech. What can Discord do? And didn’t it start off as a platform for gamer convo? Yes and in short… A dedicated, free to use, invite only class space for classes like AP US…
Little Learner Tech (part 2)
Outside Learning & Using Tech: Continuing from the first part in using tech indoors that foster learning, here we are getting out and using tech to augment our learning. In the PNW, the outdoors are an integral part for many of in our way of life or even our culture in this region. To offset…
Little Learner Tech (part 1)
Inside Learning & Using Tech: For anyone who has a little-one, being at home and not being able to have your child go out and just play has had its ups and downs. In the connected age, there were already worries and research on the impact of digital devices on cognitive development and attention spans….
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…
Ep. 2 – Digital Alchemy Live (Work In Progress)
Building from my post on “Piloting with OBS,” in this live stream I test out bringing in a guest from Microsoft Teams into OBS, with the live stream going to Microsoft Streams. Things to still work out Video latency recording from Teams/Zoom et.al into OBS (this might just be a limitation coming from my graphics…