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…
Tag: covid-19
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…
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…
Podcasting with Zoom (Canvas Commons)
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…
Zoom as a Podcaster
Looping back to the original Covid-19 Tactics post, this series breaks down the several steps and tips to setting up Zoom as an audio recording source; and then how to bring those audio files into an audio editor to produce a podcast for your class. This technique is used in podcasting often, even before Covid-19,…
A Technologist’s Guide for Students Online
Building on the initial Covid-19 Tactics posts, this time this is geared more towards students looking for creative tools for AV and collaboration. Software: Video HitFilm (FXHome) – Mac/PC “Basics” YouTube playlist by FXHome Blackmagic Davinci Resolve – Mac/PC/Linux iMovie – Mac Windows 10 Video Editor – PC Super lite on editing tools, but can…
AV For The At Home Educator (Intro & Camera)
In Monday’s proclamation by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, he has ordered all in the state to “stay home- stay healthy.” As educators follows his order to ‘hunker down,’ I pick up where my previous posts left off on tactics work-at-home educators can employ in their online teaching. This upcoming short video series coalesces Covid-19 around…
Covid-19 Tactics to Content Creation for Educators (at home)
In Washington state and the world over, Covid-19 has made educators and ed-techs alike quickly reevaluate what can and can’t be done remotely for teaching and learning. Here are some tools to level up your online instruction