From my days as an amateur short film-maker, I frequently used a program called Audacity to create sound files for foley, voice-over, or any number of other applications involving live sound. For voice-overs Anthony has already created a really nifty utility which makes Audacity unnecessary for that application. However, the…
Grrr… I love ScribeFire, but I just accidentally clicked the clear content button and wiped all of my notes from this session. I’ll have to track down the slides later. Creating portlets of static and dynamic content at both the curriculum and course level. Subject librarians tag resource with curriculum…
Talked about rapid progression from MS Office office apps to Google Productivity apps to now Buzzword and SlideRocket from Adobe. Folks from NC talked about web conferencing. Gentleman from Catholic University is speaking about mobile learning. 3-D printers can create 3D physical models using variety of media. Many 3D printers…
Beta is about to end, ready to go into full release. Can create plugins to get custom databases inter-operable. Beta of Zotero Server should be available around January. Will be able to share collections. Will be groups in macro and micro disciplines, official groups. Server software will be open source…
Used for microscope work and wet lab work. Used electrified tables – said they were unhappy with them because they often break. Had to get faculty off of slide projectors. Took two years to digitize all their images and put them in PowerPoint for them. One key to success –…
Examples: Class with 3 assignments – get to Mars, live on Mars, create sustainable energy on Mars. Class used qual and quant data to determine whether or not a school should be closed – Australia. Alignment is critical. Authentic tasks – problem is not well defined. Faculty focus needs to…
Lincoln’s leadership qualities – seems we have superficial markers for who’s the successful candidate. We should be looking at leadership styles. 1. Capacity to listen to different points of view created climate where people felt free to disagree. 2. Ability to learn on job – acknowledge failures and respond to…
The best way to avoid disc compatibility issues is to create a disc image. A disc image (.img) is a package that contains exactly the same information as a DVD, but is stored on the hard drive. Choosing File > Safe as Disc Image… tells iDVD to encode all the…
<font size= “14”> Why is this so hard? </font>Â As we think about MartÃÂ, Turner, and DarÃÂo, we might also think about Whitman (1819-1892). DarÃÂo, as you know from this week’s reading, directly engaged Whitman. Martàdid too. He wrote an essay about the U.S. poet, which might be of…
Process by which current digital images are entered and cataloged into portfolio Workflow for digital images newly created by Rob are brought into portfolio and entered – must include a photoshop droplet that resizes images nested folders keep or not keep – current catalog has fields that keep track of…