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…
Tag: Instructional Design
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…
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…
Ruling Time as a Knight
In any field, the skill to able to visually present data in a way that allows readers to engage with the data is a paramount skill. In the field of journalism especially, as timelines and the chronology of facts are just as much part of the story of record, as the reported story is. Northwestern…
STC Live Chat Support
If you are faculty or student at WWU and find yourself in a technology quandary, or are just missing being able to stop by the Student Technology Center to ask questions… Starting today you can now connect live with the STC staff during their business hours by signing into their Live Support Chat portal directly…
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
Canvas LMS, meet WordPress 5 training.
Let’s say you are a faculty at WWU, and you’ve decided to incoporate WordPress into your class. You might be asking yourself “so, now how can I teach my students what they need to know about Wp.wwu to do this great assignment?” Luckily, you have your course in Canvas; so look no further than Canvas…