Why I’m Here

I’m here because I love wordpress and I love blogging and I like to teach others how to do it as well.

You’re Never too Old to Learn

You’re using the internet to read this post right now but chances are there are still a lot of things about the internet, and internet browsers, that are a mystery to you.  Well, Google has put together a nice little-book to help you learn more about the very tools you use every day, “20 Things [...]

Wirecast, a video streaming tool for Mac and PC

Mika Lavaque-Manty is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UM and is interested in facilitating remote learning for students studying abroad.  In the attached he talks briefly about Wirecast, a comprehensive live video streaming tool for Mac or PC.  Mika will be the subject of our next Faculty Spotlight. Using Wirecast

on the PDF and its continued and mysterious supremacy

A BBC article on the format that will not die, despite its many flaws: The PDF is dead, long live the PDF

Enjoying the ProfHacker Carnival

I always enjoy reading ProfHacker from The Chronicle of Higher Education.  The quick insights into triumphs and challenges other educators encounter as they teach and use technology is almost always timely and useful.  Today’s post is more like the Tips and Tricks session at a conference — there is going to be at least one [...]

Introducing the Faculty Spotlight!

We are pleased to introduce our first Faculty Spotlight, featuring Dr. Brenda Gunderson of LSA’s Department of Statistics!  http://umich.edu/~lsaiss/consulting/Spotlight/Gunderson/spotlight.html

YouTube Increases Upload Size

YouTube Increases Upload Size, Loses Co-Founder Shared via AddThis

ISS Blog Introduction

Before posting any more tips, we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to our new blog.  This blog is maintained by the Instructional Support Services: Instruction Group for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.  While working on projects and doing research, we frequently come across tools [...]

Self-guided beginner’s workshops available: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash

Several different workshops available at:  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hamms/workshops/index.html Download “Workshop PDF” files for step-by-step instructions and bolded workshop .zip files for content. The Flash Vector Poem workshop is quite complicated, and the instructions not as detailed.  It may be difficult for novice Flash users. Currently in production:  a demo Flash application which simulates an online relational database [...]