¡Media Lab!

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¡Media Lab!

¡MediaCast! Episode #1 – Zoom at SFU

Welcome The SFU MediaCast! Episode #1! Our current tagline is… “A podcast dedicated to the use of Educational Media, Technology & Techniques for teaching.” This week is our first episode, launching officially on the MediaLab website. The interview was recorded several weeks ago now, but I have been experimenting with …

Record Your Screen on a Mac with 3 Buttons

What’s the simplest way to record your screen on a Mac?  OBS Studio, Camtasia, Screencast-O-Matic, there are plenty of tools out there to capture your screen as a video.  The simplest one, however, is already at  your fingertips. If you have a Mac with either Mojave or Catalina installed, you …

Indigenous Story Studio takes on Covid-19

Interested in supporting a new kickstarter campaign to make a “Whiteboard video on staying safe with Covid-19”? Sean Muir from the Indigenous Story Studio is undertaking this challenge, and would like to hear from you. “We want to create a series of whiteboard videos on Covid-19 tailored for at-risk populations …

Free audio for educational podcasts

It’s always a struggle to find good beds and backgrounds for your audio projects. There many “royalty-free’ music services these days, but most of them seem to have at least one foot in a “pay to play” business model. I had good luck browsing BeatPick, but ultimately, its Soundcloud that is the leader here.  Here is a great little tutorial on the basics of searching for some great audio.

Collaborate on Jamboard

https://jamboard.google.com/

Jamboard has been around for awhile. This is a particularly “cinematic” promotional video that, while it does wax very poetic, does a decent job of highlighting some of Jams best features. In particular they are touting the benefits for creative brainstorming.

You will need a google account to take advantage of this tool.

 

 

The TRU Podcasters Toolkit.

The fine folks at Thompson Rivers University have done it again. This time they are making themselves heard, or not surprisingly, helping their faculty be heard through podcasts and other formats for audio presentation. This site… is an open educational resource designed for faculty to get online with their scholarly …

¡ First post !

We are thrilled to kick off the SFU Media Lab.  In response to an increasing need for instructors to teach online, the media lab working group is dedicated to scour, compile and spin new learning opportunities to make, produce content in creative and engaging ways. Here is one of our …