AJ Barse : Digital Alchemy

AI
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Summer 2024 edition

State of AI
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Summer 2024 edition

AI
Trend Spotting

Summer 2024 edition

Strong opinions, loosely held, in and around Teaching, Technology, and AI’s impact on Higher Education.

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  • COLMAP- Opensource Photogrammetry

    COLMAP- Opensource Photogrammetry

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    https://colmap.github.io/

  • Instagram in the classroom=civics lessons in real time

    Instagram in the classroom=civics lessons in real time

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      East Oakland, CA: Social Studies teacher Jacob Levy has integrated Instagram into his teaching government. His outcome, bringing the bigger concepts of goverment, and being a part of it, more accessible and relatable for his students. Using IG feed of the recent “freshman” congress such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) whom…

  • Horology makes it on Wired [De]constructed

    Horology makes it on Wired [De]constructed

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  • Google Sites; aiming its sights higher?

    Google Sites; aiming its sights higher?

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    Historically, Google Sites has always been this quirky website platform: free for users, but always with a lackluster feature list. Recently, Google re-released their website platform (rebranding it previous service as Classic Sites) with an entire platform makeover and offering its users the ability to bond a domain to their site for free. The catch,…

  • Photogrammetry + iPhone

    Photogrammetry + iPhone

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    Italy based 3DFlow Zephyr Free edition, is like borrowing a Ferrari for an afternoon; but only able to drive in first gear. As I previously wrote the free version has a limit of 50 photos to create your models- but from this initial test that is more than enough for a hobbyist or student looking…

  • A Tale of Three ‘Sparks’

    A Tale of Three ‘Sparks’

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    Adobe Spark Available for free with an Adobe ID, Spark allows users to: Create graphics (think Canva) using Spark Post. Create single page websites using Spark Page Short narrative videos using Spark Video.   Samples Adobe Spark Video:   Adobe Spark Page:

  • Photogrammerty Revisited

    Photogrammerty Revisited

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    Autodesk Remake/ReCap update Autodesk has sunset Remake (formerly known as the Momento project), and has created a new tool from it (PC only) called ReCap. However, it is uncertain what the limitations of this new version of the app has for Education users at this time. 3DF ZEPHYR- the free 50shots photogrammertry app Free for…

  • Bellingham Podcast + KNKX (NPR)

    Bellingham Podcast + KNKX (NPR)

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    “A Walking Tour Through Downtown Bellingham” By Geoffrey Redick on KNKX “…We wanted to get a sense of what it’s like to live in Bellingham, and why so many people have chosen it as their hometown. That’s what Chris Powell and A.J. Barse did. After they graduated from Western Washington University, they found the place…

  • Tiki-Toki; a free(mium) Timeline Maker

    Tiki-Toki; a free(mium) Timeline Maker

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    https://www.tiki-toki.com/ Basic account that allows you to create a fully-functional timeline Limited to one timeline Multiple timeline views Embed youtube and vimeo vids Share timeline with others Colour-code stories Choose background image Price: FREE EDU pricing available:

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