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…
Category: Tech Research
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…
Logitech Capture; pro studio features in a user friendly app
Jumping off from my previous post on making a “Pro Camera as Your Web Camera,” This video series runs you through how to elevate synchronous video or asynchronous recording if you have a contemporary Logitech camera. Logi Capture simply put is a user friendly approach to streaming and screen-casting; without a lot of need for…
Pro Camera as your Web Camera
Now that Zoom allows users to set their slide deck as their virtual desktop, you might be thinking to yourself ; “maybe it is time after all to user a better camera than this integrated webcam after all?” As I mentioned back in my AV Tune Up video, a little $25ish HDMI adapter can turn…
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…
Piloting with OBS (work in progress)
Have you ever wanted to have your own show? Live streaming, or streaming a live video-production to a webpage where you have control over switching in between yourself, guests, or any other content has become the ‘broadcasting’ of the 21st century. So…what would it take to do in these teach-at-home times we are in? As…