Category: Digital Media

  • Graphic Design in Canva

    This workshop will cover the principles of graphic design and employ them in Canva, along with additional design tips from the instructor, Lina Boughton. Students will leave with a better understanding of graphic design. A laptop is required. Setting up a Canva account prior to the workshop and bringing your own personal designs/ideas is encouraged.…

  • Figma for Beginners

    If you haven’t already done so, you’ll want to navigate to and either register or login to your Figma Account Explore the screen  Start with some basic tools Importing and editing images   Basic Intro to Components and Variants  Introduce them to figma environment 

  • Canva for Creatives

    There is an image of the front and back of a business card created in Canva. The business card has a yellow to pink gradient with a red poppy flower.

    Get ready to create stunning e-book covers and professional business cards with Canva’s free assets!

  • Copyright-free Media

    Please see our article Comply with Copyright and Fair Use guidelines in Course Material for more information. Media Sources that offer Audio, Image, Video Audio Sources Image Sources “Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives” http://www.thedaln.org/#/home.

  • Guidelines for Creating Video and Audio

    Educational Technology has put together a post to help students for this virtual IS Symposium with creating video and audio files to showcase their work. Students should consult with their advisors and departments on specifics about the presentation style and format. Educational Technology is here to help with Office 365 applications (including Teams), poster creation,…

  • Audacity workshop

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    Audacity is an easy-to-use, open-source audio editing software program that is available as a free download for desktop computers that run Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Audacity has a variety of features that can meet the needs of a range of audio recording projects, from a very basic short live recording to more elaborate,…

  • Creating Effects with Adobe Photoshop

    Image of mountains with a series of diamonds over it and a young women's face in the center diamond

    By the end of this session students will be able to: Import photos from the Internet Make and edit different shapes Use Blending Mode to create effects Use Clipping Mask to insert pictures Session outline: Shape Tools: Import pictures from files/Internet to Photoshop Create different types of shapes Edit shapes by rotating, changing sizes Blending…

  • Adobe Premiere Basics Workshop

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    Agenda 1.    Creating New Project Open the workspace Format of the video Sequence 2.    Importing Videos and Audios  Organize Items Select part from Imported Video or Audios to the track 3.  Basic Tools of Editing Track Select Forward Tool Unlink Razor Tool Key Frames Adding Title 4. Exporting Video format Please download the example files: Video 1 Video…

  • LibriVox: Free Domain Audio Books

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    Need to listen to a story or play for a class? Want to use the audio for a project or research? You don’t need to open your wallet or ask for permission to use any of it.LibriVox is an archival website containing audio books of plays and stories that are free domain. All materials are…

  • Listen Notes

    Need a podcast for class demonstration? Or maybe you would like your students to engage with a topic via audio? Then check out Listen Notes. Listen Notes is a search engine just devoted to podcasts. It combs the web and finds that elusive podcast that Google just can’t seem to pull up in their results.…