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Author: Doug Willen

Academic Technology
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Recent Drone Flight Photos

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 Doug Willen

The College maintains two quadcopter drones that are available for faculty and staff to coordinate with ITS to use for College projects. Both are DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise quadcopters. One of them is better for straight imagery and mapping operations … Continue reading Recent Drone Flight Photos

Academic Technology, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Software, Tips

Lists in Adobe InDesign

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 Doug Willen

Bulleted or numbered lists It’s easy to create basic lists in Adobe InDesign. Simply highlight a section of text and select the Bullets icon or the Numbers icon in the Bullets And Numbering dialog box, the Paragraph panel, or the … Continue reading Lists in Adobe InDesign

Academic Technology, Moodle
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Changing how to create Turnitin assignments in Moodle

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025 Doug Willen

Quite a few faculty use the Turnitin service to check for student plagiarism in the assigments they submit through Moodle. In order to keep our systems up-to-date and as secure as possible. Effective today, January 13th, we are switching to … Continue reading Changing how to create Turnitin assignments in Moodle

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Security, Tips

Backup is easy!

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Doug Willen

The end of the semester is a good time to remind folks to backup and preserve their work. And it may be a time that you have the bandwidth to take on learning more about how to do so! And … Continue reading Backup is easy!

Academic Technology, Students
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Student Technology

November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 Doug Willen

For the past several years we’ve been surveying entering students about the technology they plan to bring to campus. What students are now bringing is vastly different from what they were coming with twenty years ago. Bringing a computer to … Continue reading Student Technology

Academic Technology, Email, Calendaring, & Collaboration Tools, Software, Tips
The Studley Tool Chest

An Academic Technologist’s Toolbox

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Doug Willen

A little while ago, Tony Weed detailed some of the resources and software tools he and his colleagues in Web Development use to make getting work done a bit more effective. Today, I’d like to share with you some of … Continue reading An Academic Technologist’s Toolbox

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