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October 31, 2023

Give them their own copy of the document

Have you ever created a file in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, or Slides) and wanted to share it with someone, but wanted them to not modify the original and just make a copy of it for themselves? You could tell them to go to the menu and choose File, make a copy, … and hope for the best! Unfortunately, we can’t control whether they make a copy or not.

Here are two ways you can “force a copy”…

Articles of Interest/Digital Life/How-To/Learning/Uncategorized

April 30, 2023

3 More Useful Features of Panopto

1) Assignment Folders One of the cool features of Panopto that many users are not aware of is assignment folders. The idea is simple, these are special folders that you create for a course that give students the ability to create and upload their assignments in video form so that you can see, and comment on them from one location...

Digital Life/Resources

March 23, 2023

Social Annotation in the Age of AI

I’ve been following how Hypothes.is is responding to the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT. I appreciate that Hypothes.is is leaning into the practice of social annotation as a way to support the academic processes of reading, thinking and writing now that students can also access ChatGPT. In fact, the resources shared below help to illuminate how engaging with ChatGPT...

Articles of Interest/Digital Life/Resources

February 1, 2023

Here Comes chatGPT…Paradigm Shift or Higher Ed Hype Cycle?

With the start of the Spring 2023 semester, educators from K-12 through university were greeted with a barrage of headlines like those below announcing the arrival of chatGPT… “Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?” “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach” “ChatGPT is coming for classrooms. Don’t panic” “ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools” The...

Digital Life/Learning/Teaching

January 30, 2023

3 Useful Features of Panopto

If you’re not familiar, Panopto is a dedicated video platform that has a robust set of features to aid in teaching and learning. It’s a generally great tool, and as a video delivery service, it works exceedingly well. That said, there’s a lot more to Panopto than just a ‘YouTube for college campuses.’ Taking a dive into the features, here...

Digital Life/Learning

December 2, 2022

Open source: for more than just applications?

In looking around for some new stock footage with which I could teach, I rediscovered a concept I first encountered years ago: open source films. You might be familiar with open source projects, or the concept of open source. Many popular pieces of software are created, distributed, and maintained by using this principle: Firefox, VLC, Blender, and most of the...

Articles of Interest/Digital Life

October 31, 2022

Liquifying Faces and Other Adobe AI Fun

Adobe Sensei never ceases to amaze me. Over the past couple years, the Adobe backed AI research has had tremendous, practical implications on multiple creative applications. For those unaware, the strides are truly tremendous, and at times a bit scary. Take a look at the facial manipulation in Photoshop using the liquefy tool, or making things disappear with content aware...