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Learn About Recording Sounds

Learn About Recording Sounds

The recording functionality on SoundCloud allows you to easily record any type of audio and directly upload it to your account. Great for voice memos, messages to your fans or for capturing sound bites. Before you start To get the most out of your recording experience, make sure you have connected your other social networking […]

Create wraparound panormamas

Create wraparound panormamas

A colleague recently introduced me to the free Photosynth app for iOS that allows you to create and share immersive 360-degree panoramic photos. It’s very easy to use and creates pretty decent images that you can then share on your … Continue reading

ScreenChomp

ScreenChomp

ScreenChomp is a digital whiteboard app for the iPad from our friends at TechSmith (makers of Jing, Camtasia, SnagIt, etc)  Screen Chomp is similar to another app reviewed here, ShowMe. Some features of ScreenChomp:...

Lariviere situation: running like a business?

Lariviere situation: running like a business?

The Governor’s news release supporting the Board states that: …Any private sector CEO, faced with a division manager who was totally dedicated to his or her specific department but willfully and repeatedly undermined the needs and goals of the overall … Continue reading

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app

As part of the roll-out of the new iPad lab we are showing the use of many apps.  One of the fun apps that will be on the iPads is the ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app.  This app allows someone to draw on a whiteboard but also records your voice and your actions on the whiteboard …

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Beautiful things

Beautiful things

It is currently 2:47 PM and it is getting dark. This is the misery that is solstice season in the Pacific NW, and the price we pay for our glorious summers. Watching this has special significance at this moment: http://laughingsquid.com/a-history-of-the-sky-a-yearlong-time-lapse-of-the-san-francisco-sky-shown-in-mosaic-of-360-simultaneous-days/ Best of all, you can hear how Moby has made wonderful music freely available for […]

From podcast to slidecast

From podcast to slidecast

As interest in digital storytelling continues to grow at Evergreen, Academic Computing and Electronic Media have been working to find appropriate technologies to custom fit the needs of our unique and varied curriculum.  In previous years we have used GarageBand … Continue reading

Just the begining…

Just the begining…

Emerging from NWACC’s (Northwest Academic Computing Consortium) 2011 Instructional Technology Roundtable comes NWACCo.org: a joint project of NWACC members to develop an Open Online Course/Resource See the About page for more info about this...

ShowMe App for the iPad

The ShowMe app for the iPad allows you to record voice-over whiteboard style tutorials then share them online. This app is a nice alternative to an expensive physical interactive whiteboard. You can publish your...