This is both a reflection on governance, a tutorial, and some limited reflection on how job insecurity shapes behavior. ESRI has said they’re going to shut off Classic Story Maps for some time. DLINQ ended up becoming more involved in managing our ESRI stuff due to reductions in staffing in the Geography department and changes […]
Category: Tutorial
Graph Page Transition via Illustrator
I’m working with Greg Pask to make a lab website. When I asked him for some visual inspiration he sent me two comic book covers by David Aja. That was a first! It’s driving me to do some interesting things in Illustrator for the first time. I’ve long promised myself I’d learn vector drawing but […]
H5P Library/Content Upgrade
I like H5P. It is good. I did have some trouble figuring out library upgrades and subsequent content upgrades in the WordPress plugin. This video attempts to clarify the process for others. […]
Defend Net Neutrality Plugin
Email Templates in GMail
Another quick and easy option if you end up sending similar patterns of responses via email. We also use a more aggressive option that uses form submissions etc. but this one doesn’t require anything more than GMail account. […]
Auto-Built (and Linking) Table of Contents in Google Docs
I did a workshop on productivity and now know that I took a bunch of knowledge for granted that could be helping people. So my new goal is to do a better job documenting stuff just in case it’s of use to people. To be clear, I don’t really care what people do with the […]
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Vive Video Tip
We’ve been dabbling in the VR world with Vive and video captured via the Ricoh Theta S. The Ricoh video resolution isn’t great but for loaning out to faculty it’s simple and won’t end the world if it’s blown over by the wind on a moor in Ireland.1 Step one got us the example above […]
Ricoh Theta to YouTube 360 on a Mac
The easiest path for me to get Theta video on YouTube using a Mac ended up being . . . Change file from m4v to mov – just rename the file and confirm. Open the renamed video file with the Spatial Media Metadata Injector program Save it Upload to YouTube and wait a bit as […]
WP Rest API Tips
Cowboy Jason Stanley performing a riding trick at the Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon flickr photo by UW Digital Collections shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I’ve been doing quite a bit more with the WordPress Rest API lately. There’s plenty of documentation and tutorials out there but most of it still feels a bit scattered […]
WP JSON to Timeline JS
As part of some thoughts on building out a series of reflective views for student portfolio blogs, I thought seeing your WordPress posts in the TimelineJS view might be a useful way to look back over your progress. I intend to wrap this into a custom spreadsheet template and/or a plugin1 but figured I’d sketch […]