Monday, August 04, 2008

Easy Wiki Creation

Creating a wiki is an easy way to develop web pages.

A wiki is a group of web pages created and edited by one person (or a group of people) that allow for easy access and editing via a web browser. The pages contain text but they also support links and other forms of markup language. Since wiki web sites are easy to use but hard to describe, here’s a great video that explains the wiki concept:

One of the easiest to use wikis is PBwiki. Here’s a video demonstrating how to get started with your wiki in PBwiki:

If you don’t like PBwiki, don’t fret, there are a ton of wikis out there.
If you need help setting up your wiki for use with your academic work at Vassar, feel free to call the Cloisters at x7279.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Photoshop: Image Retouching

This is a tutorial retouching a photo in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, Stephanie ‘08 demonstrates importing your photo into Photoshop, adjusting brightness & contrast, cropping, retouching and rotating.

Image Scanning

This is a tutorial for scanning images at the Media Cloisters.

Please watch this tutorial to learn how to scan documents with the flatbed scanners.

For more information about the subtleties of scanning, please visit this page.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Scanning Basics

This is a video tutorial to help you get started scanning.

Watch this tutorial if you would like to learn how to use the flatbed scanners in the Cloisters.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Indesign Tutorial THIS TUES!

InDesign Workshop
Tuesday 3:30 April 29, 2008

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Bulk Scanner

This is a tutorial for using the bulk scanner in the Cloisters.

With the the bulk scanner (AKA the HP Digital Sender) you can scan in multi-page paper documents and send them via email to anyone you want. Watch this video to learn more.

Combining .pdf files with Adobe Pro

Learn how to use Adobe Pro to combine .pdf files.

Adobe Pro, part of the CS3 suite available in the Media Cloisters, lets you take multiple .pdf files and make them one.
Watch this tutorial to learn how.

This is a useful technique if the bulk scanner divides multi-page document. It is also useful for combining many single scans into a single document.
Most people prefer looking at one document rather than managing multiple files. It also keeps your online course materials tidy.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Walking Tour Garageband Podcast Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to make a podcast in Garageband that has audio synced with images.

This is a demonstration of how to make a “walking-tour” type podcast using Garageband as a simple and fun to use sound and image editor.

The completed file is a “.m4a” file, which is an enhanced podcast file.
Click here to see the results (opens up iTunes).

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Voicethread Demo for Digital Storytelling

This is a quick tutorial to get you up and running using Voicethread.

Please watch this tutorial to see how to upload photos and perform voice annotations in Voicethread.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Voicethread Workshop

Digital Storytelling Workshop April 23 & 25 3:30 pm

We’ll be combining images and text.

Bring:
1. Images (hand-made or digital)
2. Text for your stories (proofread ahead of time with language interns)
3. Create a Voicethread account

Group Roles:
1. Writer
2. Illustrator/Image Curator
3. Image/Text Complier & Uploader
4. Narrator(s)

Workshop Focus:
1. Adding text to digital images (scanning if necessary)
2. Uploading images to Voicethread
3. Narrating images in Voicethread

Sample Voicethread:

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Wimpfheimer iPhoto Workshop

iPhoto Workshop RecapWimpfheimer-Image-Workshop-Notes.pdf

This is a recap and a place to host some information we covered in a workshop at the Wimpfheimer.
Shortcuts -

Handouts

iPhoto Recap Quicktime Movie (25 mb)

iPhoto Tutorial Recap on Youtube -