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The Makerspace Goes Online
This semester, along with the rest of the Swarthmore community, the Makerspace pivoted to an online platform. Here’s what we did: We added a page to the Makerspace website to provide resources on how to make face masks at home, tips for best practices, and how Makerspaces are using laser cutter and 3D printing technology to create PPE, like face shields and intubation boxes. We know you want to take the opportunity at home to learn as much as you can, so we conducted a series of webinars over the past several weeks to teach Adobe software skills, DIY and … Continue reading The Makerspace Goes Online
Adobe Creative Cloud access for remote students: EXTENDED DATE!
As a result of the campus closure, which means that students do not have access to College provided computers, Adobe has provided temporary at-home access for all Swarthmore students until July 6, 2020. Follow the instructions detailed in this ITS Knowledge Base … Continue reading Adobe Creative Cloud access for remote students: EXTENDED DATE!
Moodle Gradebook
After the vote was passed that changed the College’s grading policy to CR (credit), NC (no credit) for this semester, you may be interested in either showing or hiding your Moodle gradebook to your students depending on what you and … Continue reading Moodle Gradebook
How to Add Pronouns in Your Zoom Profile
In this post, we will look at a simple way to add pronouns into Zoom. Many thanks to Tiffany Thompson, Associate Director of Gender and Sexuality Initiatives / Program Manager of Women’s Resource Center (WRC) for her email detailing this. … Continue reading How to Add Pronouns in Your Zoom Profile
Tips for reducing eye strain
Reading, monitors and eye care Our move to online consumption of academic material comes with many pros and cons. Recently, I’ve been contacted about how to deal with eye strain and headaches which seem to be related to online reading. What follows are a couple of quick tips that may help: increase your screen’s refresh rate – make it as high as you can. adjust the brightness and contrast levels if reading on the web, take advantage of “reader mode” – Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari all include a reader mode. Chrome has an extension you can install … Continue reading Tips for reducing eye strain
Using Windows for web development?
Did you know that Windows 10 offer tools to greatly enhance your development workflow? Since the release of Windows Subsystem for Linux, development on Windows has never been easier. Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) With WSL, you can run a … Continue reading Using Windows for web development?